Protesters March in support of WikiLeaks in Montreal (feeds.feedburner)

Chanting "information should be free" and "down with censorship," protesters marched from Montreal downtown Saturday to denunciation WikiLeaks online support.

One hundred people go to the U.S. Consulate to protest against the closure of the site Web of cloth and tries to its financing.

Organizing Nadim Kobeissi, studying computer science at Concordia University, said authorities are trying to stifle the free flow of information online.

"If the Internet is allowed to stay as it is, it will cause great political change [...]". "where everyone has access to the information just as well," said Mr.Kobeissi.

"This will entail political responsibility and knowledge sharing are unprecedented.

Mr. Kobeissi, a defender of freedom Internet self-proclaimed, has created a WikiLeaks mirror site that duplicates the material is no longer available on the original Web site.

Nearly 2,000 of these sites have been created since WikiLeaks has been closed.

Bruno Joyal, a student of mathematics at Concordia University, said that he feared that a dangerous precedent will be defined if WikiLeaks is successfully.

"We are going to approach a situation where the United States wants to ensure that leaked secret documents cannot be published," Mr. Joyal said.

"We believe it is very important that the press be able to publish these documents.

Protesters also called for the release of Bradley Manning, American soldier accused of stealing classified and sensitive documents and giving them to WikiLeaks.

Similar rallies were supposed to be held Saturday at the United States Ireland, the Netherlands.

In recent weeks, WikiLeaks published parts of a cache over 250,000 secret u.s. Department of State diplomatic cables everywhere in the world.

Documents, published in collaboration with several major media organizations reveal behind-the-scenes discussions between diplomats and assessments often little flattering of foreign leaders, ranging from the u.s. allies such as the Germany and other nations such as the Libya, the Iran the Afghanistan Italy.

Founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange was released on bail Thursday.

It will be limited to Manor House of a supporter, but free to return to work on its website, as when he fought trying the Sweden extradite on the allegations of rape and indecent assault.

Speaking Saturday outside of the House in the East of England, Mr. Assange called the case of a "parody" Sweden He also said that he and others at WikiLeaks face significant risks.

"There is a threat to my life, there is a threat to my staff," he said, without providing further details.

"There are significant risks facing us."

American Eric Holder said repeatedly that a criminal investigation of WikiLeaks cable release is underway.

-With the files from the Associated Press

Yahoo to lay off 600 to 700 workers (feeds.feedburner)

Published Tuesday 14 December 2010 12 H 24 ESTLast updated 14 December 2010 12 H 29 EST2 comments

Yahoo Inc. YHOO-Q prepares to dismiss between 600 and 700 workers in the most recent shake-up triggered by gloom Internet society.

Employees may be notified of job cuts as soon as Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the plans of yahoo. The person asked for anonymity because Yahoo had not made an official announcement.

The planned reductions represent approximately 5% of the Yahoo 14,100 employees labour market. It will mark fourth mass layoff of Yahoo over the last three years.

The two last housecleanings have undergone current CEO company, Carol Bartz, a veteran has committed more than two years, despite his lack of experience on the Web or in advertising - main source of income of Silicon Valley at Yahoo.

Round this week reductions is supposed to be concentrated in American product group of Yahoo, which already has undergone a redesign since Ms Bartz hired former Microsoft Corp. Executive Blake Irving to perform the division last spring.

Job cuts come as a shock. New of the impending layoff was the first month last two popular technology blogs, TechCrunch, and All Things Digital.

Low financial growth at Yahoo, stagnant stock prices and recent no-shows management have raised questions on the issue of whether Ms Bartz, itself could be the door before the expiry of his contract in January 2013.

Revenues of the company had edged place less than 2% in the first nine months of the year (US) $ 4.8 billion, reflecting the difficulty that yahoo was selling ads while the other Internet companies such as Google Inc. and Facebook are booming.

Google revenues rose 23 percent to nearly $ 21 billion in the first nine months of the year. Private company Facebook disclose its results but it is growing so fast that it had to spend more general headquarters of the earlier this year.

Yahoo stock prices fell 31 cents to close Monday for $16.70, below a few cents, where completed last year. Meanwhile, technology Nasdaq composite index rose by 16% this year.

Malaise has spurred speculation that opportunistic companies redemption could implement a takeover bid for Yahoo, possibly in partnership with another beleaguered icon Internet, AOL Inc.

Ms Bartz, 62, has repeatedly urged yahoo, which is based in Sunnyvale, is moving in the right direction, although it warned that it might be a year or two before there is a significant improvement in financial results for the company.

Facebook is the freedom of expression, civility (feeds.feedburner)

Published Monday, December 13, 2010 9 H 54 ESTLast updated 13 December 2010 1 H 56 EST0 comments

Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook, likes to say that his Web site brings people together, helping to make the world a place better. Facebook is not a utopia, and when it comes to short, Dave Willner attempts to clean it up.

Dressed in quasi-official uniform Facebook of jeans, a T-shirt and tongs, 26-year-old Willner hardly resembles a COP on the beat. But he and his colleagues hate Facebook and harassment team are part of a virtual police squad loaded on content that is illegal or violates the terms of service Facebook. That puts them on the front line of the debate on freedom of expression on the Internet.

This role came in acute accent last week that the controversy over the WikiLeaks boiled during Web-based, with attacks contact the principal sites of companies and the Government appears to be hostile to this group.

Facebook took a page used by the followers of the WikiLeaks to organize attacks of piracy on the sites of these companies, including payments via PayPal and MasterCard; Told that the page has violated the terms of service, which prohibit the hateful, threatening, or pornographic material or incites violence or illegal acts. But it has not removed the WikiLeaks pages Facebook.

Decision Facebook WikiLeaks illustrates the complexity that the company is faced with, on issues as diverse as this controversy, bullying among teenagers, intolerance religious and gay-harassment verbal.

With reputation of Facebook on the Web - members more than 500 million pieces in more than a billion of content per day - download the site as an arbiter of freedom of expression is likely to become even more pronounced.

"Facebook has more power to determine who can speak and which can be heard around the world that any judge of the Supreme Court, a King or any President, said Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of law at George Washington University who has written on freedom of expression on the Internet." "It is important that Facebook is exercise carefully and to protect speech more rather less."

But Facebook rarely please everyone. Decisions by the company would step to remove the documents related to the denial of the Holocaust or critical pages of Islam and other religions, for example, have thwarted advocacy groups and prompted some foreign Governments to temporarily block the site.

Facebook, says that he strives constantly to improve its tools to report abuse and try to educate users about bullying. And he replied as soon it for reports of approximately 2 million content potentially abusive as its indicator users each week.

"Our intention is to sorting to ensure that we get priority items, high risk and high visibility more quickly," said Joe Sullivan, Facebook Chief Security Officer.