Fort Greene Park became the 18th park in the five boroughs to receive free WiFi service on Thursday, joining an increasing number of public spaces to receive Internet service via a partnership between city agencies and wireless providers. The greenspac... Read more »
ALERT! NEW Internet Censorship Bill in Senate
Harry Reid's at it again! Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, following a recent anti-piracy legislative debacle with SOPA and PIPA, will lead his second effort of 2012 to push Internet-regulating legislation, this time in the form of a new cybersecurit... Read more »
Controlling Cyberspace
This semester, we’re starting an exciting new class, aimed not at lawyers, but undergraduate CS students here at Harvard. It’s called CS42: Controlling Cyberspace – and we’re sharing the syllabus online. Anything big we’re missing? Description: Why does the Internet environment exist in the form it does today? What does its future, and the future [...] Read more »
Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than SOPA
Months before the debate about Internet censorship raged as SOPA and PIPA dominated the concerns of web users, President Obama signed an international treaty that would allow companies in China or any other country in the world to demand ISPs remove we... Read more »
War on the internet: it's all about power
War on the internet: it's all about power "There genuinely is a war on the net and, like all wars, this war is about power," stated Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in a recorded message on Saturday to the War on the Internet forum held in Melbourne on the weekend. When we final discussed the … [...] Read more »
Missing Wikipedia? Here’s How You Can Access It
As most Internet users already know, leading Internet companies like Google, Wikipedia, and Craigslist are protesting the SOPA legislation very publicly today, with Wikipedia totally blacked out. But, if you really, really need to access Wikipedia today, they have kindly explained how to come in through the back door:
Is it still possible to access Wikipedia in any way? Yes. During the blackout, Wikipedia is accessible on mobile devices and smart phones. You can also view Wikipedia normally by disabling JavaScript in your browser, as explained on this Technical FAQ page. Our purpose here isn't to make it completely impossible for people to read Wikipedia, and it's okay for you to circumvent the blackout. We just want to make sure you see our message.
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Daily Paul Goes Dark Tomorrow – Wednesday January 18 – SOPA/PIPA Strike
* * S P R E A D T H E M E S S A G E : S O P A S T R I K E * * On January 18, The Daily Paul will join Wikipedia, Reddit, Twitter, BoingBoing, MoveOn.org, The Free Software Foundation, and tens of thousands of other websites aro... Read more »
Microsoft Echoes Apple App Store Requirements
Here at Future of the Internet, we’ve already talked a little bit about Apple’s content requirements for both the iOS and Mac App Stores in JZ’s The PC is Dead post. As JZ said, “Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore found his iPhone app rejected because it contained “content that ridicules public figures.” Fiore was well-known enough [...] Read more »
