Efforts to legislate net neutrality were shot down today, with the House Commerce Committee rejecting a rider clause to the pending “Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Efficiency (COPE) Act of 2006”, and voting 42-12 to pass the COPE act absent the net neutrality clause.

Chinese writer Yang Tianshu was arraigned this week for posts which he made to the Internet. Yang Tianshu was just released in January 2005 following a Christmas Eve, 2004 detention for similar writings.

Net neutrality is a hot topic right now. Here’s what one Internet business owner and customer has to say about it.

Spammers Optin Global, Vision Media Limited, Qing Kuang “Rick� Yang, and Peonie Pui Ting Chen have been held accountable for affiliate spam sent on their behalf.

Resolution in the Verizon lawsuit! Verizon Wireless has reached a settlement agreement in a lawsuit which pitted Verizon Wireless customers against Verizon Wireless and its policy of blocking all incoming email from outside of the United States.

Applying new technology to an old profession – thievery – high-tech thiefs are now using regular old bluetooth-enabled phones to locate laptops to steal.

Law students in Professor June Entman’s class at the University of Memphis Law School are protesting Entman’s banning of laptops in the classroom.

With the murder of Josie Phyllis Brown by MySpace date John Christopher Gaumer, and Lori Leonard by Internet date Shawn Doyle, laws requiring that online dating sites perform criminal background checks are starting to crop up around the country.

So this guy walks into the Quidnunc computer repair shop in Seattle, and says “my computer doesn’t work – I can’ t open certain image files; can you fix it?” The Quidnunc technician fixes it, and low and behold, he finds that those image files contain dozens of pictures of kiddie porn.

After the massive patent infringement lawsuit by NTP against Blackberry’s RIM, after months with millions of Blackberry users worried that they would forever lose their beloved Blackberry service, and pondering life without their Blackberries, and whether there was a Blackberry alternative, and after the 11th hour settlement between Blackberry and NTP to ensure that Blackberry users wouldn’t lose their service, guess what?

New Jersey Assemblyman Peter Biondi has introduced legislation that would essentially ban anonymous forum posting, and which would hold forum hosts liable for defamatory statements and injury made on their forums!

What is “net neutrality”? We’ve been getting a lot of questions asking us to explain what this new term, “net neutrality” means. So we will. It all started with the introduction of the “Internet Nondiscrimination Act of 2006”.

At last, Research in Motion seems to have seen the light, and has gone back to the bargaining table, and settled the multi-million dollar lawsuit against them. But you’d still be better off with a Sidekick, in my opinion.

Downloading pornography can now get you charged with crime of creating pornography! Meaning that if you download it you are subject to the same laws and penalties as if you had made the pornography yourself, camera in hand.

T-Mobile has sued cell phone records broker LocateCell.com because your – yes, your – cell phone records are more likely than not being made available for sale, without anyone’s permission.