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Salem-News.com (Feb-17-2012 15:41)

Time to Protect Kid`s Privacy Online

Let your members of Congress know how you feel about H.R. 1895, "The Do Not Track Kids Act."

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Child Internet Safety Privacy has become a major issue in the United States and Congress is paying attention. H.R. 1895, "H.R. 1895: Do Not Track Kids Act of 2011"", a bi-partisan bill sponsored by U.S. Representatives Ed Markey (D. MA) and Joe Barton (D. TX), is pending in Congress.

H.R. 1895 would amend the "Children's Online Privacy Protection Act" (COPPA) by introducing additional provisions to govern the collection and use of teens' personal information.

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On June 21st, 2012, restaurants, coffee shops, bars and bakeries around the state will donate a generous percentage of their day
Salem-News.com (Jan-20-2012 11:28)

Protests Lead to Permanent Postponement of both PIPA and SOPA

The tide turned soon after the protest, and both bills lost some of their Congressional backers.

(NEW YORK CNNMoney ) - Hundreds turned out for a New York protest against SOPA and PIPA, a pair of controversial anti-piracy proposals. When the entire Internet gets angry, Congress takes notice. Both the House and the Senate on Friday backed away from a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills, tossing them into limbo and throwing doubt on their future viability.

On Friday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he was postponing the vote "in light of recent events."

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Salem-News.com (Jan-18-2012 12:52)

Online Piracy Legislation Gets Vote of Confidence From Sen. Harry Reid

Opponents of these two bills, such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, eBay, and Twitter, fear the measures as currently drafted will grant the U.S. government power to curb free speech online

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Harry Reid On a recent episode of "Meet the Press," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid threw his support behind advancing legislation to curb online piracy.

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Salem-News.com (Dec-16-2011 23:45)

Video Explores Suspected Murder of Marine Colonel James Sabow

Jim Sabow was a career Marine, a Harrier pilot, third in command of El Toro, and he wasn't going to allow the illegal drug running to keep taking place on his base.

(EL TORO, Calif.) - Col Jim Sabow, USMC In early 1991, something happened at the El Toro Marine air base that was so bad, so shameful, that it will not go away.

It's the highly controversial death of Marine Colonel James Sabow. A fighter pilot, a hero of the Vietnam War, a man considered by those who knew him, to be 'general material'.

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Salem-News.com (Dec-09-2011 14:30)

The Cultural 1% & the Echo Chamber

The Internet, along with community media and live concerts, is the way our music gets out there.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Occupy Portland Amy Goodman and many others have referred to the corporate media as an "echo chamber," which is a very accurate metaphor. Mostly privileged, overpaid white men who fall within a narrowly-constrained political spectrum pretend to have debates, while failing to even discuss most of the most pressing issues of the day.

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Salem-News.com (Dec-03-2011 19:55)

Rupture and Reconciliation: Fix-It for a Mangled Marriage

They poised their Cupid's arrows to celebrate Valentine's Week on a warm weather vacation as an incentive.

(SALEM) - Holding hands A good friend of mine almost had their long-term marriage in shambles. The issue was neither economic woes nor marital infidelity. It was a communications gap largely caused by very different personal and social values.

One of those factors was dashed expectations of what retirement would bring. He longed for the day when he could have "free time" to determine his very own activities rather than watching the clock at work and feeling a bit harnessed.

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Salem-News.com (Nov-27-2011 21:08)

Discovery: Defining a Cyberbully

Social scientists struggle to characterize new form of harassment...

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Cyberbullying "I was cyberbullied at age 40 by someone that tried to beat me up in high school," says a person posting on a website that chronicles stories of people intimidated through digital communications.

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Salem-News.com (Nov-18-2011 03:07)

What About Salem?

Columbia Journalism Review examines the lack of progressive media coverage in places like Modesto, and we explain our experience trying to implement local news in a medium-sized U.S. city.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Aerial view of Salem Oregon Almost eight years have passed since the launch of Salem-News.com; which we hoped at the time would provide significant balance to the capitol city's traditional lack of news coverage.

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Salem-News.com (Nov-17-2011 02:13)

Golden Age Has Its Silver Lining

As we age, some social roles are shed. How do we fill that void?

(SALEM) - electronics Who among us does not age? I have yet to meet that individual. Since I was raised in part by both sets of grandparents during WWII and beyond, I began to admire older folks many moons ago. It is no accident that after ten years of being a full-time journalist I switched course to become a gerontologist.

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Salem-News.com (Nov-09-2011 16:33)

Operation Ghost Click International Cyber Ring That Infected Millions of Computers Dismantled

DNSChanger was used to redirect unsuspecting users to rogue servers controlled by the cyber thieves, allowing them to manipulate users’ web activity.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - DNA Malware Six Estonian nationals have been arrested and charged with running a sophisticated Internet fraud ring that infected millions of computers worldwide with a virus and enabled the thieves to manipulate the multi-billion-dollar Internet advertising industry.

Users of infected machines were unaware that their computers had been compromised—or that the malicious software rendered their machines vulnerable to a host of other viruses.

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