Google has informed, that their services are blocked in 25 of 100 countries in which corporation Google carries out the activity.
By order of the government...
Access for Internet users to products of Google is limited under the decision of the governments of the states, about this informed the vice-president Rachel Whetstone in the official blog devoted to a state policy of the European countries.
The vivid example of restriction of access to services of Google it's China, they provides obligatory censorship of search inquiries. It became the conflict reason between Google and the Chinese government when the company has refused to carry out censorship in reply to hacker attack to the corporate network.
Authoritative censorship
However besides search restriction, in China other services of the company, for example: Sites, Blogs and service of editing and an exchange of photos Picasa are blocked also. Video hosting Youtube which belongs Google also is inaccessible for the Chinese users.
The company Google has not specified the list of the countries which impose an interdiction for Google services, having underlined, that more often in a role of censors act the authoritative states, such as China and Vietnam.
The government of France has postponed commissioning of the antipiracy law of "three blows" which allows to disconnect from the Internet of the users downloading an illegal content, writes Ars Techica. The national commission of computer science and freedom has suspected, that the new law can break human rights.
Base of "three blows"
Main task CNIL — to be convinced, that information technologies respect the person, the rights and freedom. The law basis of "three blows", consisting in reception of the information on actions of subscribers from providers, became object of trial.
The new department created specially for realisation of the antipiracy law, should give to members CNIL all their interesting information. In particular, they wish to find out, as there is a data gathering about potential infringers and as archiving and a data storage are arranged. It is expected, that the document will meet with commission approval not earlier than in some months.
The urgent law
The law has been approved by parliament on September, 22nd, 2009. The law means dispatch to infringers of the copyright of preventions, and after the third prevention — penalty imposing for the sum to 300 thousand euro or imprisonment for the term up to two years.
The mayor of London — Boris Johnson has decided to lay out the information, available the city authorities, in special shop London Datastore. It is supposed, that developers of appendices can receive useful data sets in this shop, and municipal data will be free.
London Datastore will open on January, 29th
On a site data about schools, calls of first aid, the London crimes, exhausts of the hotbed gases surrendering office premises, dust, frequency of abortions and others will publish.
Besides, the fund 4ip television channel Channel 4 will offer developers within the limits of this initiative of 200,000 pounds sterling. This money will go on creation of the innovative appendices using sets of the London data.
Data.gov in the USA
It's the first similar shop of data in the Great Britain. In the United States governmental portal Data.gov where departments spread the collected information for free use by all interested persons already functions.
Because of vulnerability in system of safety of the site devoted to the Spanish presidency in the European Union, on Monday on the governmental site there was a photo of the comic character of Mr. Bin, informs Agence France-Presse.
Rowan Atkinson welcomes you!
Mr. Bin which role is executed 20 years by British comedian Rowan Atkinson, welcomed visitors of the main page the well-known smile and a word "greetings". After the message on breaking many users have decided to be convinced of substitution by own eyes in this connection in the evening on Monday the site eu2010.es practically was not accessible.
It was a script...
Meanwhile the representative of the Spanish government has underlined, that the site has not been cracked, as inform the Spanish mass-media. Unknown jokers have really changed the image of the main page for a physiognomy of the British comedian, but it was not reflected in safety of the information.
Jokes concerning similarity of the prime minister of Spain José Luis Rodrigesa Zapatero and Mr. Bin are not new, reports. This comparison is especially popular in opponents of the politician-socialist. Let's remind, Spain which already became at the head of the European Union four times, will preside in EU till July, 2010.
The federal commission on communication of the USA (FCC) has acted with the concept of a network neutrality. Cвои offers were stated on September, 21st by the head of department Julius Genachowski. About it reports Bloomberg.
The concept of the Internet of the XXI-st century
The concept of a network neutrality will forbid providers to regulate a priority of the traffic in favour of separate web sites or to discriminate certain types of a content. The communication statement should not limit or forbid an Internet telephony even if it competes to own services.
The telecommunication companies should adhere to transparency principles in relations with clients. As negative example Genachowski has cited as an example one cable provider who blocked the traffic peer-to-peer (p2p) without notice about it users. Only intervention FCC has put an end to this illegal practice. The commission, nevertheless, is not going to encourage distribution of the illegal content protected by the copyright — it is a question only of technologies.
Also it is supposed, that users can choose, what devices to use at work in networks of this or that communication statement. The telecommunication companies cannot block access of users to a lawful content, appendices and services.
New rules can make illegal exclusive transactions between communication statements and manufacturers of devices, lawyers believe. Telecommunication corporation AT&T, whose monopoly for sale iPhone in the USA has appeared under the threat, has already expressed the "extreme disappointment" the concept. Vice-president Google Vinton Cerf, on the contrary, has stated hot support to the bill: "We are very happy", — he has written in blog Google.
Barack Obama has supported Julius Genachowski
Similar measures were offered by officials FCC in 2005 in a kind of "four principles", but in 2006 George Bush-younger administration has prevented an adoption of law about a network neutrality. The present president Barack Obama was expressed in support of offer Genachowski. The president has declared, that the state role should consist in support of innovations and observance of rules which correspond to common sense.
For discussion of the offers which will begin in October, FCC has opened special site OpenInternet.gov. The probability of approval of the concept of a network neutrality is very high thanks to support of three of five members of board of the commission, including most Genachowski. New rules, probably, not will are immediately applied to the mobile Internet, special adviser Colin Crowell considers. On the statement of all statutory acts some months, and completely new rules can be demanded will come into force in 2010, the official believes.
