The first legalised home computers have gone on sale in Cuba, but a ban remains on internet access.
This is the latest in a series of restrictions on daily life which President Raul Castro has lifted in recent weeks.
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In recent weeks thousands of Cubans have snapped up mobile phones and DVD players.
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Randy Sievert did not commit a crime when he snapped a photo of an undercover Manatee County sheriff’s vehicle from the road, a state prosecutor said this week in a case that has drawn national attention.
Deputies confronted Sievert in February and ordered him to erase any photos he took standing at the scene of a […]

Micheal Crook, who is being sued by the EFF for sending out false DMCA claims regrading the above image (he sent us over 10 DMCA claims), is now retracting all of his DMCA claims. This is all part of a pending settlement with Jeff Diehl (10 Zen Monkeys) and EFF, the details of which have […]

Legions of Web users and Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and other major Internet providers dodged a legal morass Monday when the California Supreme Court ruled they cannot be sued for posting or distributing libelous material written by others.
In a 34-page ruling, the state’s high court overturned a lower court decision that had stripped immunity against such […]

Ory’s now reporting their first victory - a small step, but an exciting one nonetheless - Kenyan MP Ukur Yattani has started answering constituent questions on his MP page on the site. His first post corrected information about his educational qualifications, but subsequent exchanges have gotten into substantive questions about gunfire between Ethiopian “bandits” and […]

The online interactive reference site Wikipedia announced Tuesday that the site had apparently been made accessible in China, after being blocked for just over a year by the country’s government.
Wikipedia reported on its site that it had received word from multiple users in the country on Chinese-forums.com that the site had been restored, as first […]

The founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by its users, has defied the Chinese government by refusing to bow to censorship of politically sensitive entries.
Jimmy Wales, one of the 100 most influential people in the world according to Time magazine, challenged other internet companies, including Google, to justify their claim that they could do […]

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Reporters Without Borders voiced “immense relief” at the news of the release today of blogger and documentary filmmaker Hao Wu after nearly five months in detention. His release was announced on her blog by his sister, Na Wu.
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Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes is reportedly “on the warpath” about his network’s recent ratings slide – and has given notice to staffers that he’s willing to clean house, according to a report in Broadcasting & Cable.
The cable news channel’s overall prime-time ratings are off 8 percent in the second quarter of this year, and […]