In this instance, a tribute site created for Alexis Pilkington, 17, of West Islip High School was the target of insulting messages after her death.
“I think its horrible. Its vicious. Its cruel. It upsets me as a parent,” Lorraine Kolar said as she left a memorial service Thursday for Pilkington.
Classmates, relatives and friends were incensed [...]

For more than a year, the illiterate mother appealed to various government departments in Fujian provinces Mingqin county, pleading for someone to take a closer look at the death of 25-year-old Yan Xiaoling that police blamed on an ectopic pregnancy.
Lin, 50, was sobbing outside a government office last summer when she met self-taught legal expert [...]

The upgrades will allow VeriSigns machines to handle up to 4 quadrillion requests per day from computers trying to reach those sites. Thats a thousand times more lookups than the 4 trillion per day that the company can currently handle.
Ken Silva, the companys chief technology officer, said Thursday that the latest changes are needed to [...]

China, Iran and Tunisia, which are on the groups “Enemies of the Internet” list, got more sophisticated at censorship and overcoming dissidents attempts to communicate online, said Reporters Without Borders Washington director, Clothilde Le Coz.
Meanwhile, Turkey and Russia found themselves on the groups “Under Surveillance” list of nations in danger of making the main enemies [...]

Parents would be able to use the system to help block access to porn sites, though because its use would be voluntary, the “.xxx” suffix wouldnt keep such content entirely away from minors. Religious and other anti-porn groups worry that “.xxx” would legitimize porn sites, and the proposal has already been rejected three times since [...]

The Federal Communications Commissions first-ever survey on Internet usage and attitudes concludes that those who arent connected today need to be taught how to navigate the Web, find online information that is valuable to them and avoid hazards such as Internet scams.
The study, being released Tuesday, comes less than a month before the FCC is [...]

A new study has found that young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly brief, and mobile. Tech experts say it doesnt mean blogging is going away. Rather, its gone the way of the telephone and e-mail – still useful, just not sexy.
“Remember when Youve got mail! used [...]

The judge said it was the first time a court had ruled on the question of whether an ISP should be liable for copyright violations by its users, and one expert said the decision would have global implications.
A group of 34 movie companies, including Australian branches of Hollywood studios Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. and 20th [...]

Now the FCC hopes to use a dispute with the nations largest cable TV and Internet provider to establish its legal authority to adopt such “network neutrality” regulations. The rules would aim to prevent phone and cable companies from abusing their control over the market for high-speed Internet access.
A federal appeals court was holding oral [...]

The report, handed to Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand on Wednesday, says Google and other Internet portals should be slapped with a new tax on their online ad revenues in France to fund the development of legal outlets for buying books, movies and especially music on the Internet.
The proposal is the latest idea to emerge amid [...]