June 25th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in internet, notes, politics, technology
Good grief, what are these MEP asshats thinking? I’m against ownership concentration as much as the next guy, but I wonder what pluralism in media policy has to do with blogs putting “journalists and other media professionals under pressure”. I don’t see how regulation of before unseen ways in which potentially independent, anonymous citizens can [...]
March 24th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, link tips, notes, technology
Reading lists of new .fi domains granted by Ficora is a terrible waste of time for persons whose psyches don’t sort the notion of monitoring Finnish Internet businesses into some internal “fun” folder. I happen to enjoy following stuff like this, which is why this RSS feed with daily updates on new .fi domain registrations [...]
February 23rd, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in Swedish, internet, politics, på svenska, technology
Den kortare version av denhär texten som publicerades som insändare I Hufvudstadsbladet onsdagen 27 februari 2008 finns nu publicerad i ett senare inlägg. Om den i Finland pågående debatten om censur av barnporr på nätet är obekant för dig rekommenderar jag att läsa någon sammanfattning, sådana finns exempelvis hos EFFI på finska och engelska. Under [...]
February 15th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, notes, politics, technology
The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation maintains a secret list of “child pornography” sites. Some major Finnish ISPs, although currently not required by law to do so, do block access to sites on this list. The blocking, which is performed on the DNS level, has been criticized, especially since lapsiporno.info (“childporn.info”), a site discussing the [...]
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