Ron Paul’s Farewell Address: The Internet Can Stop Big Government

The world is safe from a cataclysmic world government takeover of the Internet.

After a recent series of hacks that lead to breaches at Google and other places, all of which have been identified as being rooted (or at least starting) in Internet Explorer (even Microsoft admitted their browser was at fault), the German government has now recommended that everyone ditch Internet ...

Chinese economics magazine Caijing reported today (link via Google Translate) that the National People’s Congress is considering a new law that would require Internet users who wish to register for services to use their real names (more information from Xinhua, China’s official news agency, is available here in English).

Congress is on track to passing a nationwide Internet retail sales tax, but it has serious flaws that could majorly muck up the e-commerce industry. We think citizens are often smarter than the government, and we want to give you a chance to make the bill better before it becomes law.

Don’t mess with Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia when it comes to Internet freedom, because he will use harsh words to lash out at you. Today, according to The Guardian, Wales had some choice words for the British government and their snooping practices on citizens.

A couple of days ago we wrote that the German Federal Office for Security in Information Technology advised German citizens to switch from Internet Explorer (regardless of the version they use) to an alternative browser for security reasons.Now, the French government has issued a similar advisory, p ...

The United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) has bowed to pressure from the Internet community and agreed to include non-government members in a working group set up to review Internet governance.

Fujitsu has won a place on the Federal Government's Whole of Government Internet Based Network Connection Services Panel.

The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub -- so why can’t governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens.TED - How the Internet will (one day) transform government