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POPSInternet access & Net Neutrality: Slowing and Blocking Your Access to YouTube, Yahoo, Google, etc.
We the customers of any internet company already pay huge tolls for the benefit of using the internet, a communications system that was not only not developed by . We pay way too much for access to a technology that was developed for government use with our taxes. What the greedy bastards are trying to do is to extort companies like Google for the privilege of allowing their customers . And ... it clears the way for them ... to indiscriminately make money from users with zero accountability for service. The internet was founded on the concept of access for all ... net neutrality has at its core access to internet services at any time, to any place and with no restrictions or strings attached ,,, users and service developers have in principal equal rights to be online. ... net neutrality ... its core the very idea of being a sort of "penumbra" that implicitly protects every individual's civil rights in the digital r
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POPSArab Ministers finally agree - on limiting press freedom I love the Egyptian people. It is unfortunate they are burdened with a horrible government. only tiny Qatar showed some reservation about the new rules. The charter comes complete with sanctions in case any of the rules are violated. These start with a simple warning to the station in question, before graduating to the confiscation of material and equipment, financial and ultimately the permanent cancellation of the station's permit. As an afterthought, the document also mentions "the citizen's right to knowledge." The controversial document consists of 18 articles, and is the result of six months work by a committee of academics, some of whom have previously defended laws restricting journalistic freedoms in Egypt and demanded censorship on e-media.
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POPSYouTube restores account of Egypt anti-torture blogger Abbas was a key player last year in distributing a clip of an Egyptian bus driver, his hands bound, being sodomized with a stick by a police officer -- imagery that sparked an uproar in a country where rights groups say torture is commonplace. That tape prompted an investigation that led to a rare conviction of two policemen, who were sentenced to three years in prison for torture. Egypt says it opposes torture and prosecutes police against whom it has evidence of misconduct.
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POPSYouTube suspends Egyptian anti-torture activist's account But in a comment on Hamalawy's post, Mostafa Hussein said that YouTube's terms of service prevent the posting of such videos: Well, the message from youtube is that waelabbas violated their terms of use. This is actually true if you take a look at it. It states that content should follow the community guidelines . In these community guidelines, there is this statement saying "Graphic or gratuitous violence is not allowed. If your video shows someone getting hurt, attacked, or humiliated, don't post it." Outside of Egypt, Stan Schroeder writing on Mashable, a site which covers social networking, questioned why Abbas' account was suspended when other videos of violence are on the site: OK, why then can I find dozens of videos of people getting tasered by the police? If you ask me, a video of someone getting shocked with a high voltage weapon can definitely be described as graphic violence. And many will argue that the violence in such videos cannot be
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