Tianya, Bandao and other websites have joined together to form the "Internet Media Alliance Against Public Relations" against the Internet Post Deletion companies which are usually know as the "Internet hatchetmen companies." The reason was the emergence of more and...

These are all internet problems and [internet users] think someone should do something about it. Although many internet users think the government should keep out of the internet, I suggest to you that most ordinary people who just use the internet like they use the banking system or the trains think that the government should make sure it all works properly for them and that bad things get stoppe...

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.

Via Slate, something of a classic, this: Why the Internet won't be the next big thing - from Newsweek Magazine, 1995. Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure. What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is that the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacki...

Tomorrow afternoon (Thursday) MPs will, for the first time, have the opportunity to fully debate the issue of privacy and the internet - an astonishing thought given that more than 60% of the public use the internet every day. The...

It seems that even Members of Parliament are subject to censorship. MPs are prevented from surfing the internet for pornographic and other “inappropriate” material in their Commons offices, it has emerged. A filter on the Commons IT system blocks access to websites that contain “offensive or illegal content or are sources of malicious software”. (BBC) All well and

MEMBERS of the public could be allowed to petition the Commons via the internet, it was announced yesterday, and the authors of the most significant petitions could be calle

Members of the public are set to be allowed to petition the House of Commons over the internet, it was announced today.

MPs who are reviewing some of the most radical policing reforms for 50 years had their confidential discussions broadcast over the internet from inside the House of Commons by mistake.

Having been away from the internet for a few days I have not had a chance to comment on the latest public relations initiative from Culture Minister, Andy Burnham to censor the internet. My first reaction was that he has bitten off a bit more than he can chew. It is a view that is reflected by quite a few commentators including Quarsan on the Blairwatch site. Many of us have concerns at the influe...