remove the labels – Gadgets and Life

Back in 1998, Clinton signed the “1998 Child Online Protection Act”, which imposed a ,000 fine and six-month prison term on commercial Web sites that published content “harmful to children” (complete law). Several courts have ruled the law unconstitutional after it was challenged by the ACLU for being too broad, and potentially impacting free speech [...]

This certainly isn’t a surprise to regular readers of Broadband Reports, given we’ve been talking about this for the better part of a decade now — but Canadian ISPs aren’t very gentle when it comes to handling P2P traffic. For years we’ve tracked how Canadian cable providers are at the forefront of using caps and [...]

We’ve frequently discussed and debunked the “exaflood,” a term coined by the same think tank that brought you intelligent design, created in part to justify a shift to metered billing and decreased regulation in the sector. More real was the one-day Internet Obamalypse, with Arbor Networks reporting that most carriers saw their core network traffic [...]

We’ve previously mentioned how the small town of Powell, Wyoming hopes to see an economic resurgence through the building of a .9 million fiber network through a public-private partnership with little to no taxpayer risk. The project broke ground back in May, and local Broadband Reports user uid://1286469 has been tracking the progress of the [...]

Users in our Bell Canada forum note that the Canadian telco has had their wrist slapped by Advertising Standards Canada (ASC), the Canadian advertising industry s national self-regulatory body. According to the Toronto Star (via P2PNet), Rogers Wireless is disputing a Bell Canada ad claiming Bell has the “the fastest … network across North America.” [...]