Entries from April 2007

April 11, 2007

Code of Conduct for Blogs?

Tim O’Reilly proposed a Code of Conduct for bloggers last weekend. According to his self-regulatory proposal, blogs would be labelled either as ‘civility enforced’ and adhere to certain standards or state with another label that ‘anything goes’.
In spite of being a voluntary committment the proposed label sparked a debate on whether or not this would [...]

April 4, 2007

ICANN’s rejection of .xxx sparks vivid discussion

During it’s meeting in Lissabon that concluded on 30 March 2007 the ICANN board, inter alia, rejected the establishment of a .xxx top level domain.
Involving matters of Internet governance, the DNS, ICANN’s role and freedom of expression, this decision sparked a vivid debate, also among members of the free expression mailing list that has been set [...]