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Tim Berners-Lee for world Internet czar?

When it comes to things Web-related, sometimes you just want to read something sensible, for a change.

So it was with some relief that the recent words of Tim Berners-Lee swam through my left ear without entirely exiting from my right.

Speaking to a bunch of possibly sober British politicians, Sir Tim, as he's known over there, said it's time that we should really have a jolly good think about who is crawling all over our Web behavior.

"We use the Internet without a thought that a third party would know what we have just clicked on,&… Read more

Editorial: It's time for a child porn czar

With the recent news of the ham-fisted filtering of Wikipedia for over 95 percent of British Internet users by an unelected and unaccountable industry/government hybrid body, it seems like a good time to turn our attention to the issue of the fight against child pornography here in the U.S., and in particular, the freedoms we are willing to hand over along the way.

In this blog post, I will argue that the the time has come for President-elect Barack Obama to appoint a child pornography czar, whose office can take over the tasks currently performed by the powerful … Read more