Lex Ferenda

daithí mac sithigh’s blog on cyberlaw & media law

Let’s talk about X

ICANN debated .xxx yet again at its board meeting in Lisbon last week. (This post has been in draft form for a week already, sorry).
As is now common knowledge (BBC | New York Times), the proposal is dead (for now, and for the foreseeable future). Dot Triple Ex would have been used (obviously) [...]

The absurd world of student loans

The New York Times has been doing some great digging on the relationship between higher education institutions and loan companies; here’s the detailed article by Jonathan Glater, setting out some of the less-than-clean practices that some universities and loan companies seem to be engaging in (particularly kickbacks). A fabulous follow-up demonstrates that the problems [...]

 
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