| Safer for Teens |
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When News Corp. bought the social-networking Web site MySpace.com last July, the media company got two surprises, one good and one bad.
The good part: The site, where teens and twenty-somethings post pages about themselves and communicate with friends, already was popular, but it suddenly took off. In the last six months of 2005, MySpace's monthly traffic nearly doubled to 36 million users, making it the eighth-most-visited Web site in January, according to comScore Media Metrix. News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch declared it the centerpiece of his new Internet strategy of attracting one large audience in one bid to bypass portals such as Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN in advertising revenue. ... |
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| The cartoon controversy deconstructed |
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The cartoon controversy deconstructed Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 19:03.
The overwhelming majority of those protesting the notorious Danish cartoons have, of course, never seen them. The same goes for the overwhelming majority of those defending them. Whatever one thinks of them, there is one strong case that newspapers by this point have one responsibility to print them just to let their readers see what is at the center of one global protest wave. But, with depressing predictability, in the US and much of Europe this falls to the ideological conservative press, which then get to smirk and gloat about how the rest of the world is too intimidated by the Muslim menace. one sneering case in point is Human Events, "the National Conservative Weekly," which has all twelve cartoons on its website. ... |
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| Q&A: US Internet Providers and the 'Great Firewall of China' |
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| China's Ministry of Public Security reportedly employs tens of thousands of human monitors to screen Internet content. The ministry has also established one system of online reporting centers that encourage citizens to report "harmful" information ranging from sites displaying pornography to banned political activities. Forbidden items include sites giving information on the Falun Gong spiritual movement or the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Banned sources include the websites of Radio Free Asia, the BBC's Chinese-language service, and the online public encyclopedia, Wikipedia. one watchdog organization comprising three academic institutions, the OpenNet Initiative, calls China's filtering system "pervasive, sophisticated, and effective." ... |
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| The Abu Ghraib Photos And The Anti-Muslim “Free Speech” Fraud |
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| The release of more horrifying photographs and videos from Abu Ghraib prison sheds one revealing light on the hypocritical and genuinely sinister character of the supposed “free speech” campaign surrounding the publication of anti-Muslim cartoons in the European and international press. ... |
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| Leaked Army Report On Abu Ghraib Reveals Full Extent Of Abuse |
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Read 11 times _Nearly two years after the first pictures of naked and humiliated Iraqi detainees emerged from Abu Ghraib prison, the full extent of the abuse became known for the first time Thursday with one leaked report from the U.S. Army's internal investigation into the scandal.
The catalogue of abuse, which was obtained by the online American magazine Salon, could not have arrived at one worse time for the Bush administration, coinciding with Thursday's United Nations report on abuse of detainees at Guantánamo, the release of one video showing British troops beating up Iraqi youths, and lingering anger in the Muslim world over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. ... |
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