Category: Internet Governance
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Permission Revoked
I hereby formally, officially and categorically deny, refuse and repudiate the recent changes to the Facebook Terms of Use as they apply to the unilateral, unacceptable and unconscionable claim that Facebook owns my original content in perpetuity. I have therefore removed all imported content from my personal site and I assert my personal prior and…
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Problems with a “flat” namespace
Via digg, “Dell sues web designer because he has the same name.“: “Paul Dell builds web sites. So, he has had a URL stating as much: dellwebsites.com. Somehow, Dell, the giant computer vendor thinks that people would be confused by that is and is suing for 100,000 Euros in damages.” Back in the day, I…
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The end of the BLINK tag!
No more POP-UP, POP-UNDER ads! No more stupid PUNCH THE MONKEY ads! Via “USATODAY.com – Cyberstalking law opens debate on what’s annoying“: The law makes it a crime to anonymously “annoy, abuse, threaten or harass” another person over the Internet. Oh. Wait. So, it’s okay to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass someone if you’re not…
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How The U.S. Government Undermined the Internet?
Via Slashdot, “How The U.S. Government Undermined the Internet“: “sakshale writes ‘The Register has an article about U.S. Government backed policy changes that have led ICANN to redeligate top level domains in such a way as to provide ‘greater state-controlled censorship on the internet, reduce people’s ability to use the internet to communicate freely, and…