As Internet filtering and censorship soars around the world, a comprehensive examination of leading circumvention technologies--carried out partly at Internet cafes in China, Vietnam, and South Korea--concludes that the leading tools work well but can slow Internet access significantly and, in some cases, present security holes.

I sat down and prepared for the interview with the old man. He had retired from teaching almost twenty years before, and was always a source of good material. I always liked talking to him because he never let me guess what he was thinking. He always let me know straight up what was on his mind. He looked at me and sighed. You and your silly computers, I could almost hear him saying it in his mind. “So, tell me” I asked, getting out my laptop and my camcorder “What would you take off of the Internet if you could?” “First of all, I want you to know that I think everyone has the right to do whatever he wants. But, I think there should also be some limits” he said. “Just limits…not censorship mind you, just limits. You know, to keep the kids safe.”

After several days of closure, the popular semi-independent Azerbaijani news and discussion website, Day.az, is back. However, raising additional questions about its brief disappearance, the site's forum — known for its open and somewhat democratic discussion — is not.

The New Zealand government has delayed by a month a controversial plan that critics say will allow internet users to be cut off just because they have been accused of copyright infringement. Protesters created an internet 'black out' earlier this week to demonstrate against the proposed law. They replaced their websites with a black-out page directing users to an information page about the law. Amendments planned for New Zealand's Copyright Act by a Labour Party government that has since been replaced included the insertion of controversial sections 92A and 92C.