Promote money-making sites such as eBay and internet TV services to encourage poorer people to get online, a consumer watchdog has told the Government.

Internet users - myself included - have got used to relying on free online services which rely heavily on either online advertising or investors being willing to put up large pots of money even when there isn’t a clear way of turning users into income. Many of the services have become such a key part of

Plaid Cymru has condemned a spoof internet news site for making jokes about recent cases of suicide in the Bridgend area. The site, which describes itself as "one of the largest and funniest online spoof news, satire and parody newspapers on the internet", mixed jokes about the tragic suicides with disparaging remarks about Wales in a number of articles on the subject. ... full story

At US website Politics Online, Anthony Man writes on how the internet has changed the way local and national campaigns are run: “As more and more people spend more and more time online, the Internet is reshaping political campaigns in ways large and small. From the presidency to the lowest-profile local office, the Internet is permeating

Research from Mott MacDonald Schema, a UK based independent management consultancy advising the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) industries, has revealed that nearly half (48%) of internet users don’t believe that internet service providers (ISPs) and social networks are doing enough to prevent harmful content being accessed online.

There is a website that calls itself the Jewish Internet Defense Force, that is described on Wikipedia as: an online organization that seeks to remove material from the Internet which its members believe promotes or praises Islamic terrorism and racial hatred, in particular on sites they deem to be antisemitic and anti-Israel in nature. Here are some

Internet sites could be given cinemastyle age ratings as part of a Government crackdown on offensive and harmful online activity.

Online services which scan users' email to generate targeted advertising are being "closely scrutinised" by the Government over internet privacy concerns.

Anonymous, an online activist group which has 'anonymous' members from all over the world, has warned the Turkish government of action it intends to take against it if it implements a planned Internet filter.The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, plans to implement a filter on Internet browsing from August 22, 2011 on the grounds of protecting the youth from "harmful ...

A study released for Safer Internet Day 2009 shows that Britons take more practical action to screen their children from the dangers of the internet than anyone else in the EU. They are most likely to use filtering software (77 per cent) and most likely to talk to their children about what they do online (87 per cent).