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Google said censorship requests from India rose 49 percent over the last six months of 2011, compared with January-June, as a debate rages over how to constrain hate speech and copyright violations without curbing legitimate political discourse.

On Monday, Google said that it had received 101 content removal requests from Indian authorities between July and December last year, asking it to delete 255 items from its websites, the Times of India reported. Just five of these requests were made by courts, according to the newspaper.

According to the Google data, the company was asked to remove 130 items, including 77 videos on Youtube, because they were deemed defamatory, the paper said. However, only 25 items out of the total 130 had been deemed defamatory by the court system.

Read about India's partisan debate over online censorship in "Meet the Internet Hindus" on GlobalPost.

Another 25 items, including 24 videos, were considered hate speech.

"This is the fifth data set that we've released. And just like every other time before, we've been asked to take down political speech," the TOI quoted Dorothy Chou, senior policy analyst, as writing on the official Google blog. "It's alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests come from countries you might not suspect Western democracies not typically associated with censorship."

As far as removing the content was concerned, Google said it complied with 80 percent of the requests received from Indian courts. But for requests made by police or other government agencies, it complied in only 26 percent of the cases. "For the six months of data we're releasing today, we complied with an average of 65% of court orders, as opposed to 47% of more informal requests," TOI quotes Chou as writing.

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CALGARY , June 18, 2012 /CNW/ - Dr. Brad Thompson , President and CEO of Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (TSX: ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY), will present a corporate overview of the Company at the Bloom Burton & Co. Healthcare Investor Conference on June 21 st, 2012 at 10:30 am ET . The Conference is being held at the Toronto Board of Trade, 1 First Canadian Place, Toronto , Ontario on June 21 st between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm ET .

The Bloom Burton & Co. Healthcare Investor Conference brings together U.S., Canadian and European investors who are interested in the latest developments in the Canadian healthcare sector. Attendees will have an opportunity to obtain corporate updates from the premier Canadian public and private companies through presentations and break-out Q&A sessions.

About Bloom Burton & Co. Bloom Burton & Co. is Canada's largest and most active healthcare-specialized investment banking group. The team of healthcare specialists merges scientific, medical, clinical, intellectual property and commercial expertise with a strong understanding of the capital markets, to advise and raise capital for private and public companies. For more information, please visit http://www.bloomburton.com.

About Oncolytics Biotech Inc. Oncolytics is a Calgary-based biotechnology company focused on the development of oncolytic viruses as potential cancer therapeutics. Oncolytics' clinical program includes a variety of human trials including a Phase III trial in head and neck cancers using REOLYSIN, its proprietary formulation of the human reovirus. For further information about Oncolytics, please visit: http://www.oncolyticsbiotech.com.

This release and the presentation related thereto contain forward-looking statements which involve known and unknown risks, delays, uncertainties and other factors not under the Company's control and which may cause actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from the results, performance or expectations implied by these forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, the efficacy of REOLYSIN as a cancer treatment, the success and timely completion of clinical studies and trials, uncertainties related to the research and development of pharmaceuticals and uncertainties related to the regulatory process. Investors should consult the Company's quarterly and annual filings with the Canadian and U.S. securities commissions for additional information on risks and uncertainties relating to the forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned against placing undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company does not undertake to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable laws.

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The mining magnate's attempt to exert editorial control over the media company is 'very concerning', says the Acting Prime Minister

Treasurer Wayne Swan says Gina Rinehart is the only media owner to blatantly declare an intention to ignore editorial independence

But the Treasurer and acting Prime Minister has stopped short of supporting a Greens push for legislation to protect journalists from proprietorial interference.

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Ms Rinehart is understood to have demanded three seats on the Fairfax board. Photo: AFP

And Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has ruled out supporting any such legislation, telling Parliament, ''we are not going to ... start legislation to interfere in any way with editorial independence.

Greens MP Adam Bandt asked Mr Swan in question time today if he was prepared to do more than just "publicly call" on Ms Rinehart to uphold editorial standards. The Treasurer told Parliament that he was very concerned about Mrs Rinehart's attitude towards Fairfax. "The government is very strongly of the view that a healthy robust media is essential to our democratic process," he said.

But Mr Swan stopped short of backing the Greens' move for legislation, referring to the government's convergence review and media inquiry as a sign of its action in the area. Mr Swan said Mrs Rinehart had to explain to the Australian people what her intentions were towards Fairfax, "whether she will or wont support a charter of independence".

Greens MP Adam Bandt and Workplace Minister Bill Shorten talk during question time this afternoon. Photo: Adam Bandt

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When a homemade bomb went off outside an Indian Peaks home in January -- badly burning a husband and wife -- Lafayette Mayor Pro Tem Steve Kracha received calls from concerned residents wanting to know more about the incident.

Kracha felt there had to be a way of sending targeted dispatches to a small group of people based on their addresses alone.

With the goal of helping neighbors connect and share information online, he searched for a website, a tool or an app that had the communicative power of Facebook but the targeted range of a neighborhood email listserv.

Just a few months earlier, a California-based startup had launched Nextdoor, a private social network that links people together, neighborhood by neighborhood. Kracha went to Nextdoor's website and established a site for his 200-home neighborhood in Indian Peaks.

Now, about half the households in his neighborhood are part of Nextdoor, sharing everything from recommendations for house painters or restaurants to concerns over repeated incidents of vandalism at the swimming pool.

"This is how we are actually communicating today as a homeowners association," Kracha said. "This is something where people build their own community within their city."

Since Kracha's initial efforts this spring, 12 other neighborhoods in Lafayette have joined Nextdoor. The city has more neighborhoods on the network than all other municipalities in Boulder County combined. Boulder has six neighborhoods on Nextdoor, Louisville has two, and Erie has one.

And now the city of Lafayette itself is involved, with plans to issue notifications and community messages to residents through the network. It is the first municipality in Colorado to do so.

"From our standpoint, having neighbors connect with each other makes for a more vibrant city," said Debbie Wilmot, spokeswoman for the city.

She said Nextdoor becomes another communication tool for the city -- joining a recently revamped website, emergency alert system, and Twitter and Facebook pages.

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First Skype and now Yammer. These are trends showing that theMicrosoft Corp(NASDAQ: MSFT)is looking to giveGoogle Inc(NASDAQ: GOOG)a tough fight on the social networking arena. Just after the rumor(reliable sources) ofthe Yammer acquisitionfor a handsome amount of 1.2 billion dollars, we seeMicrosoftstock rising by2.49% in the last 3 daysandGooglestock going down by2.75% in the last 5 days.

Is it a mere coincidence? Isn't it too early to predict?

First withOrkut then Google+, Googlehas been trying their best to create a dominance in the social networking area with little or no success.The companyhas been always dominant in the search engine (almost creating a monopoly) but by far has not had tasted the success of social networking (apart from the early success of Orkut).

Similarly, Salesforce.com just recently obtained Buddy Media Inc. for 745 million dollars, and Oracle Corp(NASDAQ: ORCL)obtained Collective Intent and Virtue Inc., giving both companies social media-based software.

The leader of the market in social networking is of course Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)whileInternational Business Machines Corporation'sIBM connection controls the enterprise social networking realm. But Yammer has had a great impact already. This can be validated by the controversial statement made byMoskovitz (co founder of Facebook) whotold theNew York Times, Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks, and responding to things quickly." This was clearly anattempt to slam Yammer.

The acquisition of this social networking site confirms the growing trend among businesses to add social media tools for their employees.These are not the only reason why this acquisition is heading towards a positive direction from the perspective of both the companies. The other reasons why it looks to be a profitable venture are:

1.Technical Acquisition: Talking in laymans terminology, Yammer is possibly the best fit for Microsofts amazing office tools (Office etc.). Imagine the effect of networking on these tools. These products are already so well defined and on top of it the ability to integrate the rest of the world could act as a boon for many techies.

2. Microsofts entry pass to the Social world: Microsoft had two choices, either to set up its social network on its own or acquire a networking company. Well, the reason I would say the second is a better choice is simply because of the lack of expertise in this domain. On top of it if you have the required resources to expand in the domain, then simply put your feet on the pedestal.

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