The Global Voices reported that Iran’s parliament is considering a bill that could make some blogging punishable by death. You can listen to correspondent Cyrus Farivar on Friday’s edition of the PRI radio show The World.
Hamid Tehrani wrote on Global Voices:
Cory Doctorow says:
Back-room dealings in the European Parliament have resulted in a “three strikes” rule being included in a new telecoms bill — the rule would force ISPs to kick people who’ve been thrice accused of copyright infringement off the Internet.
A federal judge has ordered Google to hand over to Viacom its records of which users watched which videos on YouTube.
A report by a State Department stating that Governments nosy parkers repeatedly snooped on database records of celebrities. One celebrity’s records were reportedly snooped into 356 times by more than six dozen people.
Former woman Thomas Beatie, 34-year-old also known as The Pregnant Man has given birth to a baby girl on Monday.
Beatie checked into the hospital in Bend, Ore. under a fake name when he went into labor early Monday morning.
The baby girl was delivered by C-section.
Omkari Panwar, a 70 year old Indian granny and wife of a retired farmer has become the world’s oldest mum after given birth to twins by caesarean section on Friday.
US President George W Bush has signed a bill removing Nelson Mandela from the US terror watch list. He is now allows to travel freely to the USA without a waiver from the secretary of state.
A US senator said the new legislation was a step towards removing the “shame of dishonouring this great leader”.
Rogier van Bakel from nobody’s business rants:
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