Scrapbook
Huge Victory for Real People as Net Neutrality bill dies
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Summary: The article discusses the recent decision by Congress to stop senator Ted Stevens’ bill regarding Net Neutrality and a multi-tiered internet. The lawmaking regarding the internet has now
IRS Taxation of Online Game Virtual Assets Inevitable
Monday, December 4, 2006
Summary: This article discusses a recent conference held, where academics, lawyers, and scholars met to talk about the fiscal issues involved in social worlds and the virtual income they create.
The Internet Black Hole That Is North Korea
Monday, October 23, 2006
Summary: This article discusses the complete lack of Internet in the country of North Korea. The government bans most forms of free communication, and internet is nonexistant in the country.
Google CEO: Techies must educate governments
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Summary: This article discusses a recent public symposium on computer science and telecommunications, specifically net neutrality and spreading the word to the masses. One of the key speakers at
Warner to talk to Google on YouTube rights-paper
Friday, October 13, 2006
Summary: Time Warner media has just opened talks with Google regarding the use of copyrighted information on the YouTube website. Until now, YouTube has been piecemeal with the deletion of
Play Chess on your nearest e-voting machine
Thursday, October 5, 2006
Summary: IT Professionals have hacked one of the voting machines which is used to collect votes in elections for several European countries. The machine was originally purchased by the Irish
U.S. Retains ICANN oversight
Friday, September 29, 2006
Summary: This article discusses the decision of the United States to continue to oversee ICANN for at least 18 months, and possibly for up to three more years. ICANN is the nonprofit organization
Poll: Americans Don’t Want Net Neutrality (or maybe they don’t know what it is)
Monday, September 18, 2006
Summary: This article discusses two things; It first addresses the severe lack of Americans who understand what Net Neutrality is, and, it looks at poll data reporting that Americans would vote “
Spamhaus to Ignore $11.7 million Judgement
Friday, September 15, 2006
Summary: This article post discusses the situation concerning Spamhaus, a European spam-prevention site. Spamhaus was ruled by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to pay
Jigsaw Data not a company that follows standards
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Summary: This posting is an article about the website and company Jigsaw Data. Based in California, the website works by encouraging users to share their address books, phone lists, business
This page will hold my Ethical Scrapbook, chronicling events which have occured in today’s world which affect ethics in technology.
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