December 22, 2010

Free internet lost an important battle

From what I read in the newsroom of FreePress, an organisation that is trying to keep the internet free and democratic, an important battle is lost. Under pressure of the commercial interests of the big service-providers, mainly AT&T, the net-neutrality agreement is adjusted so it leaves a lot of power at the big corporations....

Found in New Zealand: wikileaks is an official word now, according to Reuters

Interesting to see that Reuters has apparently published this, but I find it in a New Zealand publication. Credits to the site "stuff.co.nz".   The word wikileaks has reached the status of other common words like google and twitter. It is an uplifting thought, that some things just are talked about so much, that they enter the language, even though the leaders would love to see them being shut down.......more..