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Cheezburger CEO: I can has Wikipedia support in SOPA blackout protest?
Ben Huh, Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh, best known as CEO of Cheezburger, has publicly called for Wikipedia to join Cheezburger and Reddit in their 12-hour SOPA blackout protest next Wednesday. From 8am-8pm...
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White House criticizes SOPA/PIPA – calls for “sound legislation” against...
The White House has stepped into the SOPA/PIPA debates broadly criticising the acts; as well as the entertainment industry and Silicon Valley for not sufficiently cooperating against digital piracy....
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Wikipedia community has spoken, global anti-SOPA blackout protest begins...
The Wikipedia community has spoken. A 24-hour anti-SOPA blackout protest will begin on Wednesday, January 18 at 5pm Western European Time (WET). During this 24-hour period, English language Wikipedia...
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Google & Wikipedia generated over half a million anti-SOPA, PIPA tweets in...
Google lead the way in raising awareness of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) in Wednesday’s online anti-SOPA, anti-PIPA protests. Despite limiting its...
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Google’s short-lived anti-SOPA/PIPA blackout logo joins Doodle archive
Google’s blink-and-you-missed it anti-SOPA/PIPA Doodle, which was live on Google Search’s homepage in the US for only a few hours on Wednesday, is back online. Google's SOPA Doodle Google published its...
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CanvasDropr makes embedding images more beautiful for bloggers
We’re all well used to sharing photos and content online (and if you look at the SOPA protests on Wednesday you’ll see we’re willing to defend our ability to do so) but one European startup,...
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Mozilla, Wikipedia & Facebook thank you for protesting SOPA/PIPA, but warn...
Mozilla, Wikipedia, Facebook, CheezBurger, and SOPAstrike have each thanked the millions of users and website owners who protested the introduction of SOPA and PIPA following the news that Lamar Smith,...
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Ireland faces its own SOPA battle
Labour TD Seán Sherlock is responsible for the statute Before the end of January Ireland will have enacted its own SOPA-style legislation – without discussion or vote in the Oireachtas, the Irish...
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UK entertainment industry: consumers are confused by “array of legal &...
Google, Bing and other major search engines should be forced to demote websites that pirate content, according to a report complied by major entertainment companies in the UK. Credit: Darren McCarra...
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Europe sends ACTA to the courts, to check its compatibility with EU citizens’...
The controversial anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting treaty, ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), might have already been approved but it still faces a tough time in Europe. Credit: Court of...
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Boards.ie forced to change content policy after #IrishSOPA enacted into law
Boards.ie, Ireland’s largest internet forum, has been forced to change its policy regarding the posting of copyrighted material just days after the enactment of Ireland’s own SOPA-style legislation. A...
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Social is done, now let’s discover: LeWeb 2012 round up
After a busy two days at LeWeb in the heart of London, we takes a look back at the Gallic invasion of London’s tech scene. Officially, the theme for this year’s LeWeb conference was “Faster than...
View ArticleItalian Wikipedia protests as Senate discusses “unacceptable” defamation bill
The Italian edition of Wikipedia is asking users to show support for the site as the Italian Senate debates a bill which would “undermine Wikipedia’s fundamental principles…and become an unacceptable...
View ArticleThe UN/ITU respond to Google’s #freeandopen campaign as the EU votes to...
An intergovernmental organisation, which few people have heard of, wants to take control over the management of the internet potentially harming freedom of speech and increasing censorship, according...
View ArticleGoogle’s #freeandopen infographic shows what could be threatened by increased...
In its campaign against granting more control over the internet’s governance to the United Nation’s ITU body Google has released this infographic. The infographic shows the growth of the internet over...
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Vint Cerf, one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” rallies users to protect its...
Vint Cerf. Photograph by Veni Markovski via Wikimedia One of the Fathers of the Internet, Vint Cerf, is calling on web users to “raise their voices” in protest against a UN organisation which some say...
View ArticleThe inventor of the web joins Vint Cerf to keep the Internet #freeandopen
Just days after the Father of the Internet, Vint Cerf, came out against proposed changes to how the Internet is managed, the Father of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has added his voice to the debate....
View ArticleRussia backtracks on controversial proposal that would give the ITU more...
The Americans described it as “shocking”, the European Union voted not to support it, Google launched a campaign against it and now the Russian proposals which would have seen a United Nations’ body...
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Facebook’s Year in Review – Did you mention these topics on Facebook in 2012?
Facebook is inviting users to create a unique review of their past year on the social network, while at the same time revealing the most mentioned topics on the world’s largest social network. Your...
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A year of tweets – 2012’s most popular & important Twitter updates
Twitter has released its review of 2012 in tweets, and has created a system to allow users to create their own custom Year in Review infographics. 2012 has been an eventful year for Twitter: with the...
View ArticleUS, EU & African states refuse to sign controversial UN telecom/Internet treaty
European, African, and US governments have refused to sign a controversial United Nations’ treaty which they believe would give oppressive regimes more control over the development of the Internet,...
View ArticleGoogle thanks those who signed its #freeandopen petition, says more will be...
Vint Cerf, one of the chief architects of modern Internet communications, has written an email to the millions of users that signed a Google petition against a recent UN treaty which he previously said...
View ArticleIrish Government to investigate whether “regulation” of social media comments...
The Irish Government is to investigate whether social media comments need to be “regulated” or subject to new legislation, according to a report from Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ. Describing the...
View ArticleIrish senators want to stop trolls by creating a database of all Internet...
People should be forced to pay for each tweet, comment, and status update they post online, an Irish senator said today. The same senator proposed that Irish citizens should also have their passport...
View ArticleTwitter gives the government 1 billion reasons why a ‘social media ombudsman’...
Establishing an office to regulate social media disputes would be unworkable and would not stop Internet trolls, Twitter’s Director of Public Policy for Europe Sinead McSweeney (@smcs) told the Irish...
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