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25.10.2010, 09:40
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The Worldwide Web – all knowing, all conquering. It crosses borders and breaks down barriers. But can something that we have allowed to become so vast ever be properly managed?
04.06.2010, 22:16
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A new Supreme Court decree to be adopted next week makes Russian Internet mass media responsible for comments left on their sites.
19.10.2010, 21:21
Russia's most popular social network website won a million-ruble law suit against a media giant.
07.08.2009, 14:55
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A three-year-old child has died after falling from an eight storey window. The girl could have been saved were it not for the indifference of adults who, instead of helping, filmed the scene on their mobile phones.
25.11.2009, 15:26
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Hackers have tried to prove that global warming researchers are manipulating their data, after stealing sensitive e-mails from one of the UK's leading climate research centers.
24.11.2009, 01:50
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Top UN, US, English and European scientists colluded together to defraud, lie to and terrorize the public through a fake environmental crisis, Texas-based radio host Alex Jones told RT.
23.10.2009, 19:31
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The US congress should make no law regarding internet regulation says Jim Harper of the Cato Institute, who discussed with RT the decision by the FCC to start exploring possible internet regulation.
28.07.2010, 13:56
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A court in Russia's Far East has banned access to YouTube, accusing the video sharing site of hosting extremist ideology.
16.03.2010, 17:54
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Russia’s President Medvedev has criticized officials for not executing his orders and warned them that they will be punished, and may even be dismissed.
06.04.2010, 19:29
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Google has removed a video from its Youtube video service in which a Chechen warlord claimed responsibility for recent attacks in the Moscow Metro.
Published: 25 October, 2010, 09:44
Edited: 25 October, 2010, 20:26
Russia needs to reform its governing procedures to catch up with fast-changing Internet technology and set up practical regulatory mechanisms, announced Russia’s Communications Minister, Igor Shchegolev.
To be fair to the Americans, the Internet started life as a military network under the auspices of DARPA (ARPA), an agency of the US Department of Defense. It understandable that they would like to retain control. However, as discussed in the article, the ITU might be a more logical choice for the global responsibility currently held by ICANN. Of course, there is nothing to stop individual countries from "doing their thing" within their own borders or even making agreements with other countries without ICANN or the official root servers.