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12-03-2012 09:41 So, was Captain Janeway a future Girl Scout? Is that even proper temporal grammar? Quick nod to Star Trek at the end of Matt Locker's Weather Segment on "Ebru Today". "Ebru Today" is seen worldwide on The Ebru Television Network, check local listings or ebru dot tv.

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Watchdog names "Enemies of the Internet"

(AP) PARIS - The Arab Spring is changing the face of Internet freedom, according to Reporters Without Borders, which released its latest "Enemies of the Internet" list Monday.

The annual report classifies as "enemies" countries that severely curtail freedom of expression on and access to the Web. It also draws up a list of states "under surveillance."

The group added Bahrain to its enemies list, citing a news blackout and harassment of bloggers in an attempt to quell a yearlong Shiite-led rebellion against the Sunni monarchy.

The country had previously been under surveillance.

"Bahrain offers a perfect example of successful crackdowns, with an information blackout achieved through an impressive arsenal of repressive measures: exclusion of the foreign media, harassment of human rights defenders, arrests of bloggers and netizens (one of whom died behind bars), prosecutions and defamation campaigns against free expression activists, disruption of communications," the Paris-based group's report said.

"Enemies of the Internet" (Reporters Without Borders)

But the Arab Spring the name given to a cascade of revolts across the Arab world has also led to the opening up of some regimes.

Libya, where the repressive rule of Muammar Qaddafi was thrown off in a violent revolt, was removed from the list of countries under surveillance.

"In Libya, many challenges remain but the overthrow of the Qaddafi regime has ended an era of censorship," the report said.

The group said that the Arab Spring had also highlighted the importance of the Internet and therefore the importance of protecting access to and expression on it.

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Bahrain, Belarus Added to 'Enemies of the Internet' List

Reporters Without Borders has added Bahrain and Belarus to its "Enemies of the Internet" list for their restrictive approach to the Web.

Bahrain and Belarus join the ranks of other countries that RWB considers to be most restricting Internet freedom, including Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

"Bahrain offers an example of an effective news blackout based on a remarkable array of repressive measures: keeping the international media away, harassing human rights activists, arresting bloggers and netizens (one of whom died in detention), smearing and prosecuting free speech activists, and disrupting communications, especially during the major demonstrations," RWB said.

Belarus President Lukashenko, meanwhile, has increasingly cracked down on the Web as citizens have used it to mobilize against his regime.

"The list of blocked websites has grown longer and the Internet was partially blocked during the 'silent protests,'" RWB said. "Some Belarusian Internet users and bloggers have been arrested while others have been invited to 'preventive conversations' with the police in a bid to get them to stop demonstrating or covering demonstrations."

The Belarus government has used Twitter to intimidate protestors, RWB continued, while the country's main ISP has diverted those trying to access social network Vkontakte to sites with malware.

A new law that took effect on Jan. 6, meanwhile, "reinforced Internet surveillance and control measures," RWB said.

Last year, Bahrain and Belarus were on RWB's "under surveillance" list, but their actions bumped them up to the official "enemies" list.

The "under surveillance" category includes countries like Egypt, where "the new regime has resumed old practices and has directly targeted the most outspoken blogger," RWB said.

But it also includes Australia, thanks to its content filtering plans, as well as France, due to its anti-piracy laws.

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Domain Name Registrar Internet.bs Corp. Reveals That LegitScript Admitted Having Registered Hundreds of Pharma Domains …

NASSAU, Bahamas, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Internet.bs Corp. CEO Marco Rinaudo has issued the following statement:

-- Beginning of statement --

In a frustrated attempt to tarnish ICANN Registrar Internet.bs Corp.'s reputation, the US-based company LegitScript openly admits to having employed undercover agents to register domain names suggesting the sale of illegal or regulated drugs from the USA to the USA and furthermore using fake whois data. Both actions are in breach of Internet.bs Corp. Terms and Conditions and in violation of ICANN rules.

LegitScript's report published on their website can be found here:

http://www.legitscript.com/download/LegitScript_Report_on_Internet-bs_(Large).pdf

A security backup copy can be found at the Internet.bs Corp. website:

http://www.internetbs.net/cached/LegitScript_Report_on_Internet-bs_(Large).pdf

The above report states:

"... To find out, LegitScript went undercover."

"... We went on to register with Internet.bs over one hundred seventy-five domain names such as controlled-drugs.net and oxycodonenoprescription.com that appeared to be selling products like Vicodin and Xanax ...."

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Internet Overseer Icann Needs to Tighten Board Conflict Rules, CEO Says

By Eric Engleman - Mon Mar 12 18:05:10 GMT 2012

The organization that manages the Internets address system should strengthen conflict-of-interest rules for its board of directors, the groups chief executive officer said.

It is time to further tighten up the rules that have allowed perceived conflicts to exist within our board, Rod Beckstrom, CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, said at a meeting of the group in Costa Rica today.

This is necessary not just to be responsive to the growing chorus of criticism about Icanns ethics environment but to ensure that absolute dedication to the public good supersedes all other priorities, Beckstrom said, according to excerpts of the speech provided by Icann.

Icann, which manages the Internets domain-name system under a U.S. Commerce Department contract, approved a plan in June to consider hundreds more domains such as .apple and .nyc in a move to spur online innovation. The group began accepting applications for new Web suffixes in January for a three-month window ending April 12.

Public-interest organizations, a national advertisers group and a U.S. senator criticized Icann after its previous chairman, Peter Dengate Thrush, joined a company that plans to invest in new domains less than a month after the board approved the expansion in June.

General Electric Co. (GE), Coca-Cola Co. (KO) and more than 50 other U.S. companies oppose the proposed domain expansion, saying it will increase their costs, confuse customers and fuel Internet fraud.

To contact the reporters on this story: Eric Engleman in Washington at eengleman1@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Bernie Kohn at Bkohn2@bloomberg.net.

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