Microsoft Censors Chinese Blogs
...l deemed subversive.
It also recently demanded that website owners register with authorities by June 30 or face fines.
Chinese censors scour internet bulletin boards and blogs for sensitive material, and block access to violators. Sites that let the public post comments are told to censor themselves......more...How Humble BBS Begat Wired World
How Humble BBS Begat Wired World
Clunky and slow, the bulletin board system ultimately proved irresistible. Jason Scott's new three-DVD set, BBS: The Documentary, tracks the birth of an online subculture. By Kim Zetter.
By Kim Zetter
2:00 a.m. June 8, 2005 PDT
Remember when there was no e-mail or in...more... Want the Sith DVD? Go to Usenet
...ups. A lot of new servers can shift data as fast as you're prepared to accept it.
Part of the performance boost comes from the way Usenet acts like a bulletin board system.
With standard peer-to-peer, you're a slave to the peer who's making the file available, said Gilgamesh. Sometimes you have to w......more... Demo: Tools for Interactive Web
... a collection of documents one visits like a museum: Look, but don't touch. The idea is to make it easy to quickly post and remove stuff from digital bulletin boards where the online communities of the future will gather to catch up and trade ideas, images and work.
We're turning the web into a conv......more... Find Your Presidential Dreamboat
..., including The Miami Herald and The Philadelphia Inquirer, are linking to the site. The program also lets users e-mail their results or post them on bulletin boards.
This may be the first software designed to help voters choose the next leader of the free world, said Carol Darr, director of the Ins......more... Hacktivism and How It Got Here
...and Franken Gibe, who used to hang out in an abandoned abattoir and talk computers and art and world domination, Ruffin said.
G-Ratte ran a bunch of (bulletin boards) that attracted pretty much the cream of the hacking community from the mid-'80s. That situation has maintained itself to date. We've ......more... Court Creates Snoopers' Heaven
...ed three computers belonging to a company called Steve Jackson Games. The company, in addition to producing fantasy books and games, hosted an online bulletin board for gamers to communicate with one another. An employee of the company was under suspicion for activities conducted outside work, but t......more... Search and Seizure: Porn Hunter
...iated Press
2:47 p.m. April 17, 2004 PDT
PHILADELPHIA -- For $10 a month, a small company offered access to a search tool that would scour electronic bulletin boards for millions of uncensored movies and photographs and serve up an all-you-can-eat taste of 'the Internet gone wild!'
Voicenet Communic......more... Rants Raves
...n. 22, 2004) quite humorous:
Tobin added that websites don't have a legal responsibility to monitor their chat rooms, just as owners of old-fashioned bulletin boards aren't responsible for posted notices.
For the most part, the provider is often seen as just the pipe, said Mark Grossman, a technolog......more... |