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  • Internet censorship should be trade barrier: Google

    Internet censorship should be treated as a barrier to trade, according to the chief executive of search and advertising giant Google.

  • Censorship protestors target Google's Sydney HQ

    It may be Valentines' Day but a couple of protesters from the Australia-Tibet Council failed to feel the love for Google over its decision to censor sensitive content from its Chinese search engine.

  • You can't censor the Internet, says Gates

    Government attempts to censor Internet sites are useless because people can still use e-mail or other means to spread banned information, Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates said.

  • Google to feds: Back off

    Google lashed out at the U.S. Justice Department on Friday, saying that a high-profile request for a list of a week's worth of search terms must not be granted because it would disclose trade secrets and violate the privacy rights of its users.

  • News Corp cleared to purchase Intermix

    Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has been given the green light by US antitrust authorities to go ahead with its acquisition of Intermix Media.

  • Is Google the future of e-mail?

    Google is hoping to convince us to use its forthcoming Gmail service for our lifetime e-mail needs.

  • Google excludes race hate, religious sites

    Google, the world's most popular search engine, has quietly deleted more than 100 controversial sites from some search result listings.

  • Google votes on whether to protect free speech

    For the second year in a row, Google shareholders will be asked to hold the Web search giant accountable for protecting free speech, regardless of international borders.

  • US Senate moves to legalise 'illegal NSA spying'

    Google, Yahoo, MSN along with other search and e-mail companies may no longer be acting illegally if they spy on their customers and then share that information with the National Security Agency.

  • Digg in tough spot with DMCA debacle

    It was a whirlwind Tuesday for the social news site Digg, complete with a cease-and-desist letter, a mutinous user base and speculation that it might get sucked into a legal battle.

  • AltaVista searches banned in China

    The move comes just days after the government blocked access to Google as part of its campaign to prevent citizens from accessing material deemed unsuitable.

  • Spam Bills pass through Senate as Democrats, ALP brawl

    The Federal Government's anti-spam legislation has passed through the senate with amendments added by the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Democrats.

  • When blogging can get you locked up

    Javad Gholam Tamayomi, Omid Memarian, Shahram Rafihzadeh, Hanif Mazroi, Rozbeh Mir Ebrahimi, Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh and Fereshteh Ghazi are some of the most courageous people you've never met.

  • Experts: Copyright law changes technology

    Attempts to protect copyrighted material have strayed from their original purpose, say lawyers, technologists and academics, but few can agree on the solution.

  • Net radicals seek safer territory

    The fate of the free Net may rest in the hands of a university student in Sweden making less money than a coffee slinger at Starbucks.

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