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MEDIA-THAILAND: Blogger Gets 10 Years for Insulting Thai Monarchy
Bangkok :: Thailand | 4 days ago
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Suwicha Thakhor's nightmare in a Thai jail is set to continue after a court delivered a harsh verdict this week that contained a unequivocal message - the Internet in this country is being policed with the aim of limiting free expression. On Apr. 3, the...
Tags: Thailand, Suwicha Thakhor, internet users, royal family, se majest, Thai Netizens Network, Bangkok, Censorship in Thailand, Chakri Dynasty, Monarchy, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Technology Internet, Law Crime
Internet users bring dog thrower to justice
Vilnius :: Lithuania | 5 days ago
Credibility A Lithuanian man was filmed by friends joking that "dogs can fly" before throwing the dog, the Daily Mail reports. The footage was then posted on the internet, initially sparking outrage on Lithuanian websites before spreading across the world...The video...
Tags: internet users, Lithuania, Vilnius, Technology Internet, Human Interest, Entertainment Culture
Chinese want to snatch California from US
Beijing :: China | 7 days ago
Credibility Chinese Internet users want to quiz US President Barack Obama about trade feuds, basketball, Tibet and whether he will cede California to China, according to websites seeking questions for a "town hall" meeting. Obama arrives on Sunday for a four-day...
Tags: China, internet users, Obama, California, Beijing, Religion in China, Yao Ming, 14th Dalai Lama, 14th Dalai Lama, Wen Jiabao, Barack Obama, Hu Jintao
Online lives rewiring coffee shop culture
Toronto :: Canada | 7 days ago
Credibility I t's easy to sneer at coffee shops. This country properly belongs to Tim Hortons, after all, which is really more of a fast-food joint in drag. Coffee shops are urban inventions: game reserves for students, layabouts, guitarists and wearers of thick-framed...
Tags: coffee shops, Tim Hortons, internet users, Canada, Toronto, Web 2.0, Social information processing, Facebook, Twitter, Technology Internet, Online social networking, Blog hosting services, Social media
Right to internet' dies quietly in Brussels back room
Brussels :: Belgium | 18 days ago
Credibility Early Thursday morning the European Parliament and EU member states finally reached a deal over a long-delayed telecoms package when MEPs dropped their opposition to French-style internet �three-strikes' laws aimed at illegal internet downloaders, ending...
Tags: EU Telecoms, European Parliament and Council, internet users, European Commission, eu agreed, eu lawmakers, telecommunication rules, services cutoffs, european mobile, internet access
Web addresses become multilingual
Seoul :: South Korea | 24 days ago
Credibility International Public Meeting in Seoul. "This decision is very significant and meaningful for not only Koreans, but all those who are not English native speakers," Kang Hye Young, director of the Internet Name Policy Team at the Korea Internet & Security...
Tags: domain names, web addresses, Icann, Seoul, internet users, Russian
Net set for 'language shake-up'
Seoul :: South Korea | 28 days ago
Credibility The body said it that it was finalising plans to introduce web addresses using non-Latin characters...The body said if the final plans were approved on 30 October, it would accept the first applications by 16 November. The first Internationalised Domain...
Grudgingly, young people finally flock to Twitter
Chicago :: IL :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Many of them are doing it grudgingly, perhaps because a friend pressures them or a teacher or boss makes them try the 140-character microblogging site. "I still find no point to using it. I'm the type of person who likes to talk to someone," says Austyn...
Tags: status update, internet users
Adults flock to social networking sites
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility The number of adults using social networking sites has nearly doubled in two years, research suggested today. Women are more likely than men to use the sites - and nine out of ten users say they have a profile on Facebook. Ofcom's UK Adults' Media Literacy...
Tags: social networking, networking sites, internet users, Ofcom, nearly doubled, Facebook, UK Adults' Media Literacy
China's internet users surpass US population
Shanghai :: China | 4 months ago
Credibility China has more internet users that the entire population of the United States, according to new research by the government-sanctioned China Internet Network Information Center . The study says that at the end of June there were 338m internet users in...
Tags: China, internet users
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