by Daniel Duende Orkut, Google’s experiment onSocial Networking Services, is extremely popular in Brazil. More than 53% of Orkut users is Brazilian — even more, if you take into account Brazilian’s profiles that don’t show their country information and profiles by Brazilians living abroad — and more than 70% percent of Brazil’s Internet users are actually profiled and […]
Porn Detection Software ‘Sees’ Genitals and Sex Acts
So-called Chinese "image understanding software publisher" Yang’s Scientific Research Institute is launching software that can detect porn in images and videos on the web. The company says it is better than software that relies solely on HTML or flesh tones and curves, which it alleges is "not robust at all." The detection software, called PNWatch […]
Child Labor Report Latest Example of China’s Disrespect for Human, Workers’ Rights
by James Parks Here’s one more reason that the Bush administration’s refusal to push China to respect workers’ rights is wrong. This week, Chinese police rescued 167 village children sold to work as slave laborers in a city in the booming southern province of Guangdong in the Pearl River Delta. The children all came from poor families who lived […]
In Putin’s Russia, Cartoons are No Laughing Matter
IN VLADIMIR PUTIN’s RUSIA , CARTOONS ARE NO LAUGHING MATTER With his easily recognizable features, his omnipresence in every area of Russian politics and foreign policy, and his penchant for withering, snappy one liners, Vladimir Putin is a cartoonist’s dream. At the beginning of his eight year reign, he was launching a bloody […]
Civil Servant demoted for porn viewing in the office
Here is a strange reason for getting demoted from a responsible post, as civil servant. A Japanese civil servant was demoted for viewing pornographic websites more than 780,000 times during office hours over a nine month period, an official said. The man. An employee of the Kinokawa Government in Western Japan, visited porno sites from […]
Press Freedom for Human Rights
Presenting a working paper on Press Freedom for Human Rights on the eve of the World Press Freedom Day, media expert Prof. Ram Krishna Regmee on Friday said, “press freedom is citizens’ tool. The media do not inform only but also play a watchdog role.” Prof. Regmee, also working as a media educator cum independent […]
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