Video: Thai protesters storm television station Anti-government protesters stormed a television station demanding officials lift censorship of their TV channel
反政府デモ隊が彼らのテレビチャンネルの検閲を解除するテレビ局は、職員を求めて突入
Digital Economy Act: This means war | Cory Doctorow Baking surveillance, control and censorship into the very fabric of our networks, devices and laws is the absolute road to dictatorial hellWith the rushed passage into law of the Digital Economy Act this month, the fight over copyright enters a new phase. Previous to this, most copyfighters operated under the rubric that a negotiated peace was possible between the thrashing entertainment giants and civil society.But now that the BPI and its mates have won themselves the finest law that money can buy – a law that establishes an unprecedented realm of web censorship in Britain, a law that provides for the disconnection of entire families from the net on the say-so of an entertainment giant, a law that shuts down free Wi-Fi hotspots and makes it harder than ever to conduct your normal business on the grounds that you might be damaging theirs – the game has changed.I came to the copyfight from a pretty parochial place. As a working artist, I wanted a set of just copyright rules that provided a sound framework for my negotiations with big publishers, film studios, and similar institutions. I worried that the expansion of copyright – in duration and scope – would harm my ability to freely create. After all, creators are the most active re-users of copyright, each one of us a remix factory and a one-person archive of inspirational and influential materials. I also worried that giving the incumbent giants control over the new online distribution system would artificially extend their stranglehold over creators. This stranglehold means that practically every media giant offers the same awful terms to all of us, and no kinder competitor can get our works into the hands of our audiences.I still worry about that stuff, of course. I co-founded a successful business – Boing Boing, th 監視ベーキング、コントロールは、検。我々のネットワーク、デバイスや法律の非常に生地に独裁hellWithへの絶対道デジタル経済法の法律に急いで通過今月は、著作権上の戦いは新たな段階に入ります
Google: $1.4M on 1Q lobby on China, other issues Internet search giant Google spent $1.4 million in the first quarter to lobby the U.S. federal government on everything from its decision to stop censoring search results in China to the tussle over open Internet rules before the Federal Communications Commission, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.
The spending was up 57 percent from $880,000 in the same quarter a year ago. At that pace, Google's lobbying tab would be on track to climb even more in 2010 than it did last year, when spendin ... インターネット検索大手のGoogleは火曜日AP通信が報じた億6700万ドルを1.4、連邦通信委員会の第1四半期に中国での検索結果を検閲を停止する決定から政府にすべての連邦にロビー活動を米国闘争でオープンなインターネットの前にルール支出最大57％880000ドルから同四半期の1年前でした
