Cruel and Unusual Punishment? By SPIEGEL Staff Activists protest the conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention in front of the US State Department in Washington on Monday. The conditions under which presumed WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning are being held have been tightened again. Even US pol[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Net Neutrality’
March 15th, 2011 - 8:46 am § in Uncategorized
Franken: Comcast is Threatening the First Amendment
Al Franken: “the First Amendment issue of our time. “I came here to warn you, …They’re coming after the Internet hoping to destroy the very thing that makes it such an important for independent artists and entrepreneurs: its openness and freedom.” “Let’s not let the[...]
Evan Bayh Joins Fox News!!!
from Huff Post: UPDATE: Fox News officially announced on Monday afternoon that former Democratic Senator Evan Bayh is becoming a contributor to the network. Michael Clemente, the network’s senior vice president for news, announced the move in a statement. He said that “Senator Bayh’s decad[...]
March 8th, 2011 - 5:41 pm § in Schools & Colleges, Science
Imperial College takes on Elsevier and Wiley Blackwell
Felix Online, the online news of Imperial College in the UK, reports (in an article by Kadhim Shubber) that Deborah Shorley, Director of the Imperial College London Library, is threatening to end the library’s subscriptions to journals published by Elsevier and Wiley Blackwell, two of the major [...]
March 8th, 2011 - 6:51 am § in Uncategorized
Web Freedom
I think the time has come for a constitutional amendment adding freedom of the web to our existing first amendment rights. My immediate reason for this came from the mess last week when Gmail went down: As most of those affected by the Gmail outage return to their inboxes, a lingering sense of uneas[...]
March 4th, 2011 - 2:09 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Japan: Should Smart Phones be Allowed in Exams?
TOKYO — Japanese police arrested a teenager accused of cheating on his university entrance examination by consulting online forums with his mobile phone, prompting outrage Friday in this gadget-loving country that prizes hard work and fairness. The arrest of a 19-year-old applicant to prestigious [...]