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CNET's Greg Sandoval brings word of a bill in the New York State legislature prohibiting anonymous communications online. This proposal follows on from another New York State proposal discussed by David Kravetz at Wired. It is unclear from either news account but the proposed bills might impact LISNews.

This week's episode contains a telephone interview discussing the digital divide in John Lennon's hometown of Liverpool and a news miscellany. Direct Download: Ogg Vorbis Audio Related links: LISEvents: 4th QQML2012 International Conference LISEvents: InPACT 2012 - International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends LISEvents: eBUG Conference 2012 LISEvents: Crimea 2012 LISWire: Gale Digitizes Popular 20th Century Weekly For Students and Scholars Dan Lynch Seven Streets: Liverpool is getting left behind online An Amazon List The Star Beacon: Kingsville celebrates tradition while helping library Reuters: Pakistan blocks Twitter access over "blasphemous content" Agence France-Presse: Pakistan restores Twitter after block over Prophet cartoons Voices For The Library: Reflections on the Arts Council Consultation Workshop Stop the privitsation of Public Libraries Ars Technica: WiFi’s future: faster, smarter, and fewer cables Electronic Frontier Foundation: Hey ITU Member States: No More Secrecy, Release the Treaty Proposals Electronic Frontier Foundation: EFF Joins Coalition Denouncing Secretive WCIT Planning Process LISNews: Room for Debate: Threat or Salvation for Library? New York Times: Seizing the Future or Renouncing Its Past? -- Should the New York Public Library go forward with its plan to consolidate two branches into a renovated version of its main building?

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #198 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

This week's episode talks about cookery. Yes, cookery. A news miscellany is also presented. Direct Download Link: Ogg Vorbis Audio (Subscription Options) Related links: LISNews: Security4Lib - IT Security For Libraries Ars Technica: What the airline industry can teach us about broadband caps Ars Technica: Why bandwidth caps could be a threat to competition CNN: Why one in five U.S. adults doesn't use the Internet Radio Survivor: As May 21 Anniversary Approaches, Family Radio Avoids End of World Talk Wired: Be Very Afraid: The Cable-ization of Online Life Is Upon Us

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #197 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

Delayed posting due to unforeseen technical problems This week's episode ends up indirectly asking whatever happened to AGRICOLA as another audio news release from the United States Department of Agriculture makes it sound like it is being left behind. A news miscellany is also presented. Direct Download: Ogg Vorbis (Audio) Related links: LISNews: What If You Have A Digital Divide And Nobody Cared? The Register: Berners-Lee--Net snoop law tosses human rights into the shredder Ars Technica: Copy protection means some DirecTV subs will need new gear to watch HBO librarian.net: How do you search for something that’s NOT online, a fun and fascinating homework assignment Huffington Post: Comcast, Colorado Springs Station KRDO, Mistakenly Broadcast Porn Instead Of Good Morning America

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #195 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

This week's slightly delayed episode contains a piece of media criticism by Madam Producer and a news miscellany. Direct Download: Ogg Vorbis (Audio) Related links: Peter Murray: Reflections on Little Free Libraries FutureOfCapitalism.com: Ebook Antitrust TheNextWeb: Iran’s government to shut down access to the Internet by August The Register: Iran's plan to UNPLUG the INTERWEBS back from the dead Ars Technica: Iran moving ahead with plans for national intranet
LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #194 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

This week's episode is a bit unconventional yet posted early on April 1st. Unrelated links:

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This week's episode brings a conference report from Blake Carver followed by a bit of a news miscellany. Direct Download MP3 Related Links: Human trafficking 'hiding in plain sight' in northern Ohio, U.S. Attorney says Facebook removes page paying homage to Toulouse killer Toulouse gunman dies in hail of bullets during police raid French officials under fire over Toulouse gunman French president promises law to make viewing "hate sites" an offense Don't rush to shut down hate on the web FOIA data suggests FCC more secretive than CIA Verizon Data Breach Report Offers Scary Truths About Security 'Hacktivists' Lead Data Breach Threats, Study Finds Pirate Bay plans to build aerial server drones with $35 Linux computer Pirate Bay plans sky-high flying proxy servers US broadcasters put the squeeze on small-town cable TV Conservatives hijack #ILikeObamacare hashtag on Twitter

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #191 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

The Chief of the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission issued a 2 page PDF enforcement advisory discussing why using jammers is illegal in any situation and outlining the massive penalties using or importing such a device entails.

This week's episode is another quick one that talks about the seemingly ephemeral nature of electronic communications as of late. You can directly download such HERE Related links:

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Pakistan's plan for the "coldblooded murder of the Internet"

We take a look at the Pakistan government's plan to buy censorship hardware capable of blocking up to 50 million websites today... and filtering citizen e-mail tomorrow.

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