Numerous websites were unavailable Tuesday after an apparent widespread outage at the cloud service company Fastly. Dozens of high-traffic websites including The New York Times, CNN, Twitch, and the United Kingdom government’s home page, could not be reached. San Francisco-based Fastly acknowledged a problem just before 10 a.m. GMT. It said in repeated updates on…
Websites Across the Internet Disrupted by Outage at Cloud Company Fastly
China Insider: Yangtze River Dries up as Dams Worsen the Impact of Drought
March 24, 2021
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Wuhan, capital city of central China’s Hubei Province, is nicknamed the “City of Yangtze” because it is the biggest city in the middle reach of the Yangtze River and situated at the confluence of the Yangtze and Han Rivers, one of eight major tributaries. That explains why when a video showing a dried-up section of…
Leading Colorado Democrat Introduces Bill to Censor Internet Communication
March 24, 2021
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Commentary A leader in the Democrat-controlled Colorado Senate has introduced a bill that would largely end freedom of the press as we know it. Senate Bill 21-132 is titled the “Colorado Digital Communications Act.” The measure would require Internet platforms to register in Colorado and comply with content censorship. The censorship would include far-ranging restrictions…
Shaw-Rogers Merger Good for Rogers, Risky for Consumers
March 22, 2021
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News Analysis The merger of telecommunications companies Rogers and Shaw makes good business sense, but the resulting consolidation could be bad for consumers, experts say. Rogers Communications Inc. is proposing to buy Shaw Communications Inc. in a deal worth $26 billion. The companies hope to clear regulatory hurdles to have the deal closed by the…
Textbooks Are Still Important in School
Commentary I learned a lot about Canadian history when I was in Grade 6. Unfortunately, it had little to do with what happened during class. Rather, I came across an old discarded Canadian history textbook in our school library and started reading it during my breaks. It taught me far more about the history of…
China in Focus (March 18): Pro-Beijing Internet Troll Slams Communist Party
A Chinese internet troll who had a little too much to drink turned his back on the Chinese Communist Party. He slammed Beijing in a YouTube video, despite his reputation as an enthusiastic defender of the communist regime. The United States and China hold their first high-level meeting since President Joe Biden took office. And…
Cuba Loses Phone, Internet Connections for About 90 Minutes
HAVANA—Cuba’s telephone and internet connections were knocked out on Friday in a nationwide failure, though there was no general power outage, witnesses said. All internet service and international communications crashed at around noon (1700 GMT), according to witnesses in Havana and three other provinces. International communications were restored after 90 minutes and the internet 10…
Hong Kong Tightens Control of Internet After National Security Law
After a few days of temporary blockage, Hong Kong Chronicles (hkchronicles.com), a website “dedicated to exposing people supporting tyranny and dictatorship in Hong Kong,” was permanently shut down on Jan. 13. On January 14, Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation (HKIRC) announced a new version of its Domain Name Registration Acceptable Use Policy, effective on January…
Free Speech Advocates Criticize Coming Social Media Regulations
Ottawa is proceeding with new legislation to regulate social media, but free speech advocates say attempts by the state to police the internet would be another blow against individual rights and a healthy democracy. “They’re going to create a bureaucracy, a regulator, for hate speech on the internet,” Joseph Hickey, executive director of the Ontario Civil…
Digital Duplicity: The Social Media Purge Exposes Net Neutrality’s True Goal
January 19, 2021
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Commentary For nearly two decades, Silicon Valley made net neutrality its highest policy priority. Under the banner of a “free and open” internet, Google, Facebook, and Twitter sought regulations to ensure the uninterrupted flow of information by treating every bit equally. Or so they said. Beginning on Jan. 8, these firms and others executed an…
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