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...added that his company agreed to participate in the trial only to demonstrate that the policy was "fundamentally flawed, a waste of taxpayers' money and would not work." Critics of mandatory Internet filtering point out that in some countries, including China and Thailand, it's used to block not only morally objectionable content but also those that are critical of the government. More to the point, many Internet providers say blacklists don't work anyway: most illegal activity online happens via peer-to-peer networking, which Web filters can't block. "It's almost trivial to get around the filters...
However, Saturn spokesman Mike Morrissey insists that the expensive ads for brands on the chopping block do make sense. "We had been holding back on our advertising. We thought the time was right," says Morrissey, adding the NCAA Tournament has long delivered a young, affluent audience favored by carmakers. "We're very much alive," he says. (See the worst business deals...
...seemed like a good idea at the time. If you want to reduce citizens' exposure to dangerous and illegal activities online, why not gather up all the URLs for sites that promote such acts - child pornography, extreme violence, weaponmaking and so on - and have Internet service providers (ISPs) simply block them? Wouldn't that make the Internet safer for families and children...
...Authority (ACMA) is finding out the hard way. The ACMA, Canberra's equivalent of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, put together such a list and sent it to more than a dozen companies. It was part of a trial program to develop software that would allow Australian ISPs to block the sites. But to ACMA's evident surprise, at least one person who received the list handed it over to Wikileaks, an online clearinghouse for anonymous submissions of sensitive material. The ACMA "blacklist," as it became known, was promptly posted online, becoming a handy compendium of Internet depravity...
...Obama was among the first to cry foul, instructing Treasury Secretary Geithner to "block these bonuses and make the American taxpayer whole." Afterwards, in a letter to Congress, Geithner stated that "we will impose on AIG a contractual commitment to pay the Treasury from the operations of the company the amount of the retention awards just paid." It appears that AIG's penalty will be that the Treasury will force the insurance company to pay the Treasury back with money the Treasury has already given it. Congressman Barney Frank struck a strident tone when he proposed that the government enforce...