YouTube Copycat High School Shootings - the New Social Statement?

MATTI Juhani Saari has one thing in common with Pekka Eric Auvinen, Jokela High School shooter, and the Virginia Tech murderer:  they were all ardent admirers of the Columbine shooters, misfits Klebold and...

Akihabara rampage foretold but lost among myriad messages on Internet site

" TOKYO — To most of Japan, the deadly stabbings in Tokyo were an incomprehensible act of sudden and indiscriminate violence.But to readers of an obscure website called “Extreme Exchange, Revised,” the...

Canadians beware: they want to take away your freedom

A Canadian copyright law, similar to, but even worse than the USA DMCA is coming. Read Michael Geist's excellent thirty action points about what you can do. If you don't what will you do when your child asks "where you were when our freedom was taken away"? The USA has...

Report highlights blog censorship

"Bloggers are now finding themselves prey to censorship from repressive governments as much as journalists in traditional media, a report says. Reporters Without Borders' annual study of press freedom says China is one of the worst offenders, having imprisoned 50 people for...

Goodbye, Baghdad by Riverbend

"'m finally leaving Iraq. But it's hard to decide which is more frightening: Car bombs and militias, or leaving everything you know and love. Editor's note: Baghdad Burning, the blog written by a young Iraqi woman named "Riverbend," has given readers around the world an...

Suing the Internet: Can You Even Do That?

Can you imagine if everyone who felt insulted by anything posted online could sue the site that held that posting?"The hosts of the speed-of-light world of Internet blogs and interactive websites that publish anonymous commentary should be forced to pay when reputations are...

'Brotherhood' Blogs in Egypt Offer View of Young Islamists

"By MARIAM FAM April 20, 2007; Page B1 Like many young bloggers, Shaza Essam uses her personal Web site to list her favorite Hollywood movies, talk about a popular song and complain about her studies. But some of the postings by the 21-year-old dentistry student in Cairo are...

Internet hosts should be made to pay for libellous statements, suit contends

"The hosts of the speed-of-light world of Internet blogs and interactive websites that publish anonymous commentary should be forced to pay when reputations are damaged, says a former Green Party staff member who is...

Wolfowitz postings went to war backers by Emad Mekay and Jim Lobe

"WASHINGTON - Of the top five outside international appointments made by embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz during his nearly two-year tenure, three were senior political appointees of right-wing governments that provided strong backing for US policy in Iraq. "

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