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...contingent of the liberal Revolutionary Democratic Party has drafted a bill to closely monitor and regulate the use of Twitter and Facebook in Mexico. The bill would make sharing information that helps others break the law or avoid it a criminal act. (The social-media companies themselves are not targets of the bill, just their Mexican users; Twitter and Facebook have warned their users to obey Mexican law.) The bill's sponsor, Norberto Nazario, says he wants to create an online police force that would keep abreast of the ways drug cartels and kidnapping rings are using the Internet...
Krame says that passing the bill would be the worst action the government could take in combating crime allegedly committed via Twitter and Facebook. Twitter, some observers say, has allowed citizens to become amateur journalists, thus fulfilling a huge need in Mexico, where many broadcast and print media outlets have refrained from publishing certain news stories because of the threat of retribution from the cartels. Four journalists have been killed this year because of reporting on drug-related issues...
...still a mystery. Hansen reportedly consulted a psychologist but never took her son in for a session. There's no evidence she sought help from her adoption agency, child-welfare authorities in Tennessee or even the well-regarded International Adoption Clinic at Vanderbilt University in nearby Nashville. The media that have descended on Hansen's home have not gleaned much insight. The boy, whom Hansen renamed Justin, did not attend school in the six months he spent in Tennessee, and some neighbors said they barely knew the family...
...large Web portals who ensure content conforms with official directives. With what is called the "Great Firewall of China," authorities block access to overseas Web pages deemed objectionable and shutter domestic sites that repeatedly stray into restricted territory. Search engines are prevented from linking to sensitive content. Mainland media, which face a host of regulations that limit how they can report the news, are often forced to take down controversial stories that have been posted online. (See pictures of Chinese mourning the loss of Google...
...been active on Twitter over the past year; he now has 33,000 followers. Recently he began posting birthday memorials for students who died in the quake. In a recent interview with CNN, Ai, who helped design the "Bird's Nest" Olympic stadium in Beijing, predicted that social media would one day overcome China's censorship regime...