From the land of Mussolini (remember Hitler's pal) ..."Italian prosecutors are preparing to file criminal charges against four Google execs. Why? Not for anything Google, as a company, did. Or anything those executives actually did. But, because four kids filmed themselves taunting a disabled boy in a classroom and that film was uploaded to Google."

"Yesterday, in the Viacom v. Google litigation, the federal court for the Southern District of New York ordered Google to produce to Viacom (over Google's objections): all data from the Logging database concerning each time a YouTube video has been viewed on the YouTube website or through embedding on a third-party website."

"Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday."

The Australian Government has announced that they will be joining China as one of the few countries globally that broadly censor the internet.

"Australia’s getting more regulations for Internet content. After extending the capabilities of Australian authorities to block certain web content, a new verification rule by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is rolling out the Communications Legislation Amendment (Content Services) Act of 2007, and it doesn’t look pretty. The rule is being enforced to protect children from adult content on the Internet, including mobile devices."

Just two days after it was yelled out in a University of Florida lecture hall, "Don't Tase Me, Bro!" has become the newest cultural touchstone of our pop-cultural lexicon.

Watch someone get Tased for speaking his mind..."University of Florida student Andrew Meyer is Tasered and arrested after causing a disturbance at a town hall forum, which featured Senator John Kerry, at the UF Auditorium on Sept. 17, 2007"

"The popular Java Anonymous Proxy (JAP), used to anonymise one's comings and goings across the Internet, has been back-doored by court order. The service is currently logging access attempts to a particular, and unnamed, Web site and reporting the IP addys of those who attempt to contact it to the German police."