Cyber poison-penner hunted down and sued

Cyber poison-penner hunted down and sued

LEGAL counsel Martin Bennett has a short message for those who allow themselves to attack reputations over the internet, imagining they are safe under the cloak of anonymity. ''You can be hunted down and found,'' he said yesterday. Mr Bennett has done just that for a Perth client, winning $

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Tear down the great firewall

Tear down the great firewall

The Australian Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force Internet Service Providers [ISPs] to censor the Internet for all Australians. This plan will waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and will not make anyone safer. Its interesting to see the types of Keywords and websit

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The anti-social world of social media.

Naked Communications, Sydney planning partner Adam Ferrier - who spoke at the Caxton Seminar in Noosa on the weekend - believes the anonymous comment on blogs "is the bastard child of the Internet and social media, and is akin to giving the back row of the classroom an endless supply of rubbers, and

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