Google has begun to direct users that read blogs on its Blogger/Blogspot platform to country-specific URLs in an effort to prevent censorship laws from any one country affecting those that may not find the content objectionable.

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Blogger rolls out country-specific URLs

Hobbyist hackers based out of Germany are hoping to build the first building blocks of a backup satellite communications network that will ultimately be instrumental in putting a hacker on the moon within the next 23 years. ('Astronaut' guide image by Paul , CC2.0 ) The project, dubbed the Hackerspace Global Grid (HGG), was born from the call for a Hacker Space Program at the Berlin Chaos Communication Camp in August last year.

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Hackers on the moon in the next 23 years?

Vodafone has confirmed that it will implement the Interpol filter of child-porn sites, and is preparing the necessary infrastructure to have it go live next year.

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Vodafone confirms it will use Interpol filter

The heated debate about internet filtering has calmed down this year, with voluntary filtering at several ISPs drawing little of the chanting, marching and petitioning that we saw two years ago. Does this fact, paired with recent statistics showing that Telstra's filter is keeping at least a few sickos from casual child porn access, legitimise the case for moderate internet filtering?

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Has Telstra made 84,000 reasons to filter?

A coalition of major UK internet service providers (ISPs) says that it will begin forcing customers to choose whether to have access to pornography and other potentially unsavoury websites, rather than simply offering consumers the option to block them.

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UK ISPs force users to choose over porn

Android users in China are experiencing restrictions in accessing Google's Android Market and, while this hurts users in terms of choice, the search giant has more to lose as the lack of a cohesive marketplace can drive consumers to other platforms.

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Android market blocked in China

Optus has fulfilled its pledge to filter its customers' internet traffic, blocking websites that are listed on the Interpol "worst-of" list.

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Optus implements internet filter

An R18+ classification for computer games is long overdue in Australia and internet filtering based on the Interpol blacklist is "reasonable enough", says legal expert Peter Black. However, he does have concerns.

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Games, crime, porn and Facebook (laws)

As the Liberal Party mulls over the contents of a report that dissected its failings in the 2010 Election campaign, one being the lacklustre alternate broadband policy, Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull is preparing to shop the party's current version of that policy to business groups tomorrow.

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Avoiding the Lib's ghost of broadband past

New Zealand looks like it might be engulfed by a growing mountain of electronic waste.

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NZ needs to get real on e-waste