Word: trialing
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...Wild founder Joe Francis had been sentenced to eleven months in prison for the videotaping of underage girls. Francis was not sentenced for any crime. He served 35 days in jail in Florida for contempt and eleven months in jail in Reno, Nevada after being denied bail while awaiting trial on Federal tax evasion charges, regarding which he denies any wrongdoing...
...result of the scandals, several of Australia's biggest ISPs pulled out of the filtering-software trials and have urged the government to drop the plan. "It became increasingly clear that the trial was not simply about restricting child pornography or other such illegal material but a much wider range of issues, including what the government simply describes as 'unwanted material' without an explanation of what that includes," said Michael Malone, managing director of iiNet, an Australian ISP. He added that his company agreed to participate in the trial only to demonstrate that the policy was "fundamentally flawed, a waste...
...Actually no, as the Australian Communications and Media 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...
...case, which marks the first time that a former president has been charged with corruption in Taiwan, has been the target of intense media focus in Taiwan for the past several months. The trial has weighed heavily on his wife, son and daughter-in-law, who have all pleaded guilty to money laundering. His wife's trial began last week. Three of an additional 11 suspects in the case have also made confessions in connection with the bribery and embezzlement charges brought against Chen. But Chen himself continues to insist that any funds the family received were political donations...
...some ways, Chen's trial is a positive sign that the justice system is alive in the Chinese world's sole democracy. But as the figurehead of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which was founded to build democracy and fight corruption, his family's scandals have brought the party down, and DPP politicians have tried to distance themselves from the scandal - and the man himself...