At least in Australia
While the consumer electronics manufacturers try their best in order to come up with increasingly wider and more vivid plasma and LCD displays, it would seem that the legal future of these devices might be uncertain, due to the fact that they require quite a lot of power in order to work. And this is exactly the reason why the Australian government is seriously taking into consideration the possibility of banning said families of displays for good, in an attempt to cut on the overall power consumption and thus take some important steps for protecting the environment. Read the rest of this entry »
Reporters Without Borders and Chinese Human Rights Defenders made a special survey concerning the Internet censorship in China, a country which is doubted to be the most restrictive one when it comes to online content. According to the two organizations, the Chinese government is the only country which hired thousands of experts who monitor the local users’ online activity in order to detect malicious actions and stop them as they occur. This caused an impressive offensive of bloggers and website owners after some of them were sent to the court due to prohibited activities on the Internet. 