links for 2007-05-17

“Technology drives the forces of globalization. But when we replace our computers and flat-screens with the newest in high-tech cool, what happens to the hardware we throw away? Welcome to the digital dumping ground…”

“The Australian video games industry has stepped up its efforts to convince the Government to introduce an R18+ classification for video games.” (This is LONG OVERDUE!)

“MySpace, an online social network popular with teenagers, said in two statements yesterday that it was prepared to work with [US] state attorneys general who have requested the identities of MySpace members who are known sex offenders.”