Wednesday, 11. June 2008

Cuomo’s Child Porn Deal: The Death of USENET?


A lot of censorship and suppression of speech goes on these days, under the well meaning pretenses of curbing atrocious crime, but with the net effect silencing valuable communication. Just the yesterday, I talked about proposed legislation that the US Congress has in the works to criminalize emotional distressing speech under the auspices of ending cyber-bullying. Today, three of America’s largest Internet service providers have decided to voluntarily to censor one of the precursors to the Web: USENET.

mashable.com webmonkey.com cnet.com

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