Guardian: Google and Yahoo criticise Australia’s ‘heavy-handed’ internet filter plans

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Guardian: Google and Yahoo criticise Australia’s ‘heavy-handed’ internet filter plans > From the article: "Australia came under fire today from the United States for its proposed internet filtering system, which, if implemented, would be the strictest of any democracy."

NY Times: F.C.C. Plan Would Establish High-speed Internet as Dominant U.S. Communication Network

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NY Times: F.C.C. Plan Would Establish High-speed Internet as Dominant U.S. Communication Network > From the article: "The blueprint reflects the government’s view that broadband Internet is becoming the common medium of the United States, gradually displacing the telephone and broadcast television industries."

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Escobar on the Political Ecology of Technonature

From After Nature, p13: A definition of political ecology for technonature would emphasize the biocultural configurations that are emerging and those that are possible according to particular constellations of actors, technologies, and practices. The political ecology of technonature would study … Continue reading →

Wired: Supreme Court Takes ‘Informational Privacy’ Case

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Wired: Supreme Court Takes ‘Informational Privacy’ Case > From the article: "The U.S. Supreme Court is agreeing to decide how much personal information the federal bureaucracy may acquire on its workers. The justices decided to review a lower-court decision surrounding the concept of informational privacy."

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Castells on Environmentalism and Ecology

From The Power of Identity (The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Volume II), pp 112-113: By environmentalism I refer to all forms of collective behavior that, in their discourse and in their practice, aim at correcting destructive forms of … Continue reading →

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Face Detection Technology

cyberenviro.org posted a photo: Photo: Michael Oman-Reagan (http://religionandtechnology.com)

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Latour on Political Ecology

From the Politics of Nature, p246: The term does not differentiate between scientific ecology and political ecology; it is built on the model of (but in opposition to) “political economy.” It is thus used to designate, by opposition to the … Continue reading →