B211 Labs - Current Affairs

Self-Test (Sample)

The following are excerpts from newpaper articles. Read the excerpts and answer the question below each excerpt.

Excerpt:
________ plans to appeal a crushing decision handed down by a federal judge that the company remain offline until it can perfect its song-swapping system.
US District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel shot down the notion that ________ could quietly come back online without 100 per cent effectiveness in its song-screening technology after an injunction that it remove all copyright music.

Which Internet company is the above refering to?

Excerpt:
The Liberal report recommended that lotteries be excluded from the ban and that amendments be made to ensure there were no unintended prohibitions of activities such as television contests...
As expected, the Labor Party report did not support the proposed ban. Instead, it presses the case for regulation of __________ , saying the most effective way to manage the activity was to develop national regulatory regime.
Most of the Democrat sided with Labor, saying the Bill was unworkable.

What is the Liberal federal government proposing to ban in the excerpt above?

Excerpt:
The first and best recommendation, to my mind, is that Telstra should be encouraged (presumably with thumbscrews) to introduce a nationwide, untimed, local-call plan. For a flat fee of 20c, we should be able to make calls to anywhere, from anywhere.

The excerpt is from a column reviewing the Australian Labor Party's Knowledge Nation document. What does the recommendation mentioned above have to do with the Internet?

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