Internet

Watchdog revisits Internet oversight (Toronto Star)

16 May 2008

Canada's broadcast watchdog will hold public hearings next year into the thorny question of extending its purview to the Internet, a medium it deemed to be a regulatory-free zone nearly a decade ago.

Study: Cox, Comcast Internet customers have been blocked (Daily Press)

16 May 2008

Critics say letting a service provider selectively stop some connections violates the Net's open principles. Comcast Corp.'s interference with Internet traffic has prompted a federal probe and is at the center of calls for "Net Neutrality" laws. But another U.S. cable company appears to be doing the same thing without drawing scrutiny.

AG announces victory in Internet safety (The Daily Item)

16 May 2008

LYNN - While schools in Lynn and across the country are fighting a war against Internet predators and bullying, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced a breakthrough safety and security agreement with one of the Internet's most successful Web sites this month.