A federal appeals court decision against the Federal Communications Commission has left many people wondering if the open Internet’s days are numbered. On Tuesday, a three-judge panel in a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. unanimously tossed out an FCC cease-and-desist order against cable giant...

A TEENAGER has kidney failure after another attack at a Chinese internet rehabilitation camp, state media reports. The 14-year-old boy was in critical condition in hospital after repeated beatings at an internet rehabilitation camp in southwest China. The incident in Sichuan province took place just weeks...

A TEENAGER suffering from internet addiction was allegedly beaten to death by trainers at a rehabilitation camp in southern China, reports say. The three supervisors who allegedly beat Deng Senshan, 16, were arrested after the boy’s death early on Sunday, his father Deng Fei told the Global...

HACKERS have defaced the website of the Melbourne Film Festival over a documentary about an exiled separatist leader accused by China of plotting riots. Messages attacking Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, along with images of the Chinese flag, were posted on the festival’s site over the weekend. Festival...

THE number of internet users in China is now greater than the entire population of the United States, after rising to 338 million by the end of June, state media reported today. China’s online population, the largest in the world, rose by 40 million in the first six months of 2009, the official Xinhua...