The idea that anyone is controlling the Internet runs contrary to common knowledge. The Web has a tradition of hosting free content with relatively little government or regulatory interference, and is today backed by a fervent army of supporters ready to defend a free and open platform. And in celebration of 20 years of a free World Wide Web, research laboratory CERN recently restored the world’s first website: http://info.cern.ch/.

aaron-swartz Aaron Pressman Reuters 16 hours ago Reuters file Aaron Swartz poses in a Borderland Books in San Francisco on February 4, 2008. BOSTON  — A U.S. judge on Monday ordered the release of previously sealed documents in the criminal hacking case against deceased Internet activist Aaron Swartz.

Michael Reeder, the man known as the Internet rogue trader, will be facing jail time and fines. The 35-year-old Portsmouth, England native was convicted yesterday in a British court for offences under the Trade Marks Act after a string of online sale of counterfeit products mostly from Monster Inc