There is a lot of news today and much of it illustrates the growing disparity between how the U.S. deals with the challenge of broadband technology and how the U.K. deals with it. (The British flag is from CityFreight.org, which is dealing seriously with European truck congestion.)

• BT has turned on Cleanfeed, a censorware project aimed at "child porn." The company, which has 2 million ISP customers, said it blocked 230,000 attempts to access sites on the list in three weeks. The list was compiled by the Internet Watch Foundation, and while BT says it would like all ISPs to filter on it, that's not mandatory.
  
• Wanadoo, an ISP owned by France Telecom that actually has more UK customers than BT, signed deals to launch a video-on-demand service next year. Viewers could buy sport events individually rather than having to subscribe to them. This is called innovation.
  
• Wanadoo is also launching a home gateway project, selling a "home hub" and offering to provide voice and networking, not just data, for a single monthly fee.
  

• Newsforge has come up with a two-year old memo detailing a Microsoft plan to use patent law in an attempt to destroy the open source movement with lawyers. (This flag is from JRTruck, which distributes truck accessories throughout the U.S. Southeast.)
  
• The recording industry has "blacklisted" peer-to-peer networks, preventing companies like RealNetworks from doing business with them. Back in the day this was called racketeering.