general internet news - 8 April

Nitschke criticises suicide Internet laws
Euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke says he is angered
at moves by the Federal Government to charge people who
distribute information on suicide via the Internet.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s825957.htm

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=%5CForeignBureaus%5Carchive%5C200304%5CFOR20030407b.html

Libertarians struggle to reconcile security, privacy
concerns
Times couldn't be more challenging for civil libertarians
and privacy advocates as they struggle to arrest what they
consider a dangerous, rising tide of government
surveillance.

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/843006p-5923363c.html

Pakistan blocks 1,800 Web sites in porn war
Pakistani authorities said Sunday they've blocked 1,800 Web
sites in a crackdown on Internet pornography in this deeply
conservative Muslim country.

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/843445p-5925099c.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46343-2003Apr7.html
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=2512836

China gags SARS talk in Internet chatrooms
As rumors swirled around China over the outbreak of
atypical pneumonia, Internet chatrooms face the same gag
orders on the spread of the disease as the state-run media,
Web site managers say.

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/842454p-5919649c.html

Child Porn Law Creates Catch-22
Pennsylvania's attorney general is citing laws against
distributing child pornography in refusing to identify any
of hundreds of websites his office has forced the nation's
largest Internet providers to block under a unique state
law.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,58336,00.html

Porn spam--legal minefield for employers
Lewd e-mail promoting pornography may soon pose more than
just a technical challenge in the ongoing fight against
spam--experts say it's set to become an acute legal problem
too.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1032-995658.html

Conservatives defend Pentagon surveillance plan
Backers of the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness
project have dismissed criticism of the plan as 'hysterical
vociferous cries' from privacy advocates.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2132904,00.html