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...Internet controls. "Many believe that the crackdown on porn was just an excuse," says Isaac Mao, a Chinese blogger and a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. "The real reason has to do with the various goals of Internet censorship, one of which is to curb the individual's voice...
However, many of these proposals are funded through money that is already legislated for use, and, given the economic realities of the moment, encouraging job growth is far more important than fiscal prudence. The government should look to break the grip of the recession and reject calls to curb necessary domestic spending...
...Will the controversy derail efforts to curb warming? Although the e-mails have no bearing on the scientific case for climate change, they'll likely have a major political impact. At the very moment when countries around the world - including the U.S. - seem poised, finally, to begin to control greenhouse-gas emissions, the controversy created by the e-mails allows skeptics to roll some of the momentum back, at least by injecting doubt among a confused public. (Facebook users, comment on this story below...
...Curb Your Enthusiasm
University President Drew G. Faust had previously announced a campus-wide initiative in the summer of 2008 to curb greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent from 2006 levels...