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A fifth of the adult UK population has never used a computer or been online, says the new government-funded body UKOnlineCentres. According to the press release I received, one-in-ten of over 55s would rather do a bungee jump than use the Internet. They’re launching an initiative to try to overcome this. I know about this, The Digital Economy Bill — a noxious concoction of entertainment industry fear and our government’s desire to license and monitor everything – is likely to be passed imminently. Under the guise of protecting copyright holders, the Bill seeks to monitor your internet use, close down your ability to use popular services and restrict access. My estwhile colleague, the excellent David Gauntlett, has posted a new video about the work towards his next book Making is Connecting: Not really Web 2.0 or web-anything, but interesting nonetheless. News on Wednesday that Microsoft is threatening to pull out of China because of human rights’ violations. The BBC quotes Fred Tipson, MS’ senior policy counsel, who says: “Things are getting bad… and perhaps we have to look again at our presence there,” he told a conference Wondered about Yahoo! and China? Censored search results? Shopping journalists to a communist state machine? Here’s what a company spokesperson told me: “Yahoo! opposes the punishment of any person on the grounds of what may be called free speech. We firmly oppose that. However, we have to abide by the local laws of whatever country we |             | |||
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