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Despite lobbying by big players like the Motion Picture Association of America, lawmakers abandoned the bills after tech companies and groups, and ordinary Internet users, mounted a frenzy of protests, saying the bills would hurt Internet freedom and innovation.
With more than half of its Midtown galleries closed for renovation, the Modern has turned to the Internet and mounted its first Web-only exhibition, "Artists of Brücke".
Disney's fiscal year results were also strong, although Disney's movie studio fell short of its performance in the previous year and losses at the company's video game and Internet division mounted.
LONDON — In a campaign that had some declaring the start of a "cyberwar," hundreds of Internet activists mounted retaliatory attacks on Wednesday on the Web sites of multinational companies and other organizations they deemed hostile to the WikiLeaks antisecrecy organization and its jailed founder, Julian Assange.
In an open letter, published on the Atlantic Web site after he was slammed across the Internet, Parker mounted a vigorous defense of his special day—"none of the usual tasteless crap that rich people do at their weddings was present here"—disputing accusations of reckless mismanagement, and highlighting his ongoing efforts in "conservation work".
Concerns about what is real and what is not on the internet have mounted after a year in which the term fake news has become both commonplace and profitable, with false stories shared on Facebook earning their creators hefty sums through advertising.
Some call this infowar: the use of high technology and, particularly, the Internet to mount attacks.
Climate-change contrarians, though they publish very little in the relevant scientific literature, use the Internet to mount persistent attacks on the I.P.C.C. Being a human enterprise, the I.P.C.C. has certainly made mistakes, and these get magnified by people attempting to generate doubt about the overall body of climate science.
The remarks – if they fully reflect official policy – will anger internet users, who mounted a vociferous campaign against the policy this week and hoped they had secured a victory against government censorship.
Richard Clarke believes a debilitating attack on the Internet could be mounted by manipulating routing information via the Border Gateway Protocol, corrupting it to "send everything down a black hole". In April router vendors like Cisco and Internet service providers like AT&T and AOL had to quickly fix two security holes exposed in BGP protocols.
Students in the remote town of Robatkarim mounted an Internet project on the environment, eventually nudging their parents and the school to begin recycling their garbage (there is no recycling plan in Iran).
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