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Lawmakers seek to overturn FCC Internet rules
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of Republican lawmakers opened another front
in a battle against the Federal Communications Commission's Internet
traffic rules, filing a resolution of disapproval on Wednesday. The
congressional effort to repeal the ...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/16/us-fcc-internet-idUSTRE71F7IA20110216>
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Internet 'kill switch' easy target in Egypt
CBC.ca
Governments in other autocratic Middle East countries have tried to mirror
Egypt's efforts to suppress the internet, hoping to make it more difficult
for activists to organize anti-government protests. (Reuters)One of the
most fundamental ...
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DA: Woman turned into sex slave after internet meeting
CNN International
By Kristen Hamill, CNN New York (CNN) -- A Wisconsin woman who said she
agreed to cook and clean for a man she met on the internet in exchange for
a free place to stay allegedly ended up as his sex slave, prosecutors said
Wednesday. ...
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WATCH: Google's Wael Ghonim Tells "60 Minutes" How The Internet Helped
Spark ...
San Francisco Chronicle
He also explains that Egypt's worst mistake was blocking its citizens from
Facebook and then the Internet -- it showed everybody how scared they were,
and drove them away from their computers and into the street. Here's the
interview in case you missed ...
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Intimidation cut off Egypt from the Internet, not a 'kill switch'
ITworld.com
Amid two weeks' worth of blather about whether the US should have a kill
switch for the Internet just like Egypt does are a few inconsistencies that
make it look a lot like there is no actual kill switch, and that what Egypt
really did relied more on ...
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IE9 release candidate tops 2 million downloads
CNET
by Josh Lowensohn Microsoft says the release candidate for Internet
Explorer 9 has been downloaded more than 2 million times since its release
late last week. Microsoft first released the software to the public last
Thursday, after a five-month beta ...
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