WASHINGTON — Get ready for presidential fireside chats on YouTube. And how about Barack Obama "friending" thousands of members on a "myWhiteHouse" social network that could help get legislation passed?
Just as Franklin Roosevelt used the new technology of radio and John Kennedy grasped the power of television, Barack Obama is poised like no president before him to embrace the Internet as an innovative way to communicate, attract support and Read the rest of this entry »
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10
Oct
27
NEW YORK (AP) — Leading Internet companies, long criticized by human rights groups for their business dealings in China, are agreeing to new guidelines that seek to limit what data they should share with authorities worldwide and when they should do so.
The guidelines, to be announced Tuesday, call for Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to try to reduce the scope of government requests that appear to conflict with free speech and Read the rest of this entry »
Oct
14
Bobby Maxwell kept a close eye on the oil industry for more than 20 years as a government auditor. But he says the federal agency he worked for is now a "cult of corruption." An inspector general's report found that agency employees received improper gifts from industry officials and engaged with them in illegal drug use and inappropriate sexual relations.