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Essential Internet: A Private Function Part (6)

Essential Internet: A Private Function Part (6)

Defying both the industries that claim they are stealing intellectual property and the copyright legislation designed to support them, such as the much criticized and often-defeated Digital Millennium Copyright Act,… Read more »

Essential Internet: A Private Function Part (5)

Essential Internet: A Private Function Part (5)

It turns out that the internets uniquely democratic and flexible structure still defies most attempts to censor it, as the continued expansion of pornography sites amply demonstrates. Ironically, some efforts… Read more »

Essential Internet: A Private Function Part (4)

Essential Internet: A Private Function Part (4)

Even before the events of September 11th 2001, most governments around the world had started to draft legislation governing access to these virtually unbreakable ciphers. Now armed with apparently hard… Read more »

Essential Internet: A Private Function Part (3)

Essential Internet: A Private Function Part (3)

That suspicion has grown as they have begun to understand how little control they have over the things that people choose to communicate to each other. The same digital technology… Read more »

Essential Internet: A Private Function Part (2)

Essential Internet: A Private Function Part (2)

In countries with larger populations or those where internet technology is less widely available to the populace, the difficulties in managing electronic governmental projects become severe. Attempts to provide some… Read more »

Essential Internet: A Private Function

Essential Internet: A Private Function

Digital technology brings with it all sorts of possibilities to improve communications with citizens, as thousands of projects around the world have shown. Electronic voting and the ability to file… Read more »