Archive for March, 2006

The Belarus dictator Alexandre Loukachenko has “officially” won the presidential elections last Sunday, with 83% of the votes. In February he had announced a law that forbids the Belarus inhabitants to use the Internet! Indeed, only the government agencies and the companies, as well as some privileged persons are going to be able to connect to the Internet via the Belarus “.by” domain name country extension (ccTLD).

With the manipulation of the single and public Telecom operator, the dictator has great chances to achieve his goal of muzzling the media and destroy the free speech of the Belarus people.

This is a sad example on how the Internet can be used as a politic tool to influence the free speech of a population.

After the blacklisting of the German BMW website last month by Google, which generated a lot of reactions in the Internet community, the famous search engine is again in the forefront of the News with this time KinderStart.com web site filing complaint against Google.

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Attacked for profiting from “click fraud” since April 2005 by several companies, Google has chosen to make a compromise last week. Following a note posted on the blog of Nicole Wong, Google Associate General Counsel, Google agreed to establish a $90 million fund to settle the lawsuit.

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