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Twitter tells the Irish government why a state-funded social media ombudsman would be unworkable as the country looks at new laws for social media.

Two Irish senators have called for a database to be created that records every users' name against their IP address in an effort to curb trolls

The Irish Government has announced an investigation into whether "regulation" is need of public social media comments & their use by the mainstream media

Google's Vint Cerf thanks those that signed its petition for Internet freedom but warns that more will be needed in the future.

A bloc of US, EU, and African states have refused to sign a UN treaty which they fear would have given the organisation more control over the management of the Internet

Twitter has released its review of 2012, showing the most popular and important tweets of an eventful year for the social network.

Facebook has revealed its year end review of the most mentioned topics on the site as well as an application that allows you to create your own timeline review of 2012.

Russia will not table a proposal that would see the UN's ITU take over more control over the Internet. The country is currently redrafting it, with the new document to be presented soon.

Tim Berners-Lee has warned that attempts to “bypass” existing Internet management systems would be a “disruptive threat to the stability of the [Internet].”

As the UN's ITU meets one of the Fathers of the Internet is calling on users to sign a Google petition to protect the Internet's independence from government controls

Google's infographic shows the growth of the internet since its creation in 1969 as the company protests against proposed United Nations' changes to the way the internet is managed.

The UN's ITU has responded to Google's #freeandopen campaign saying the it's not trying to take over the internet. Meanwhile the EU votes to condemn changes to internet governance.

1 billion views later TED Talks shows that editors are still needed as it announces its curated playlist feature.

Italian Wikipedia users are protesting against Senate defamation legislation which the organisation said would destroy the Encyclopaedia and "undermine its fundamental principles"

The European Commission refers ACTA to the European Court of Justice with questions over the agreement's compliance with EU citizens' rights.

As Mozilla, Wikipedia, Facebook, CheezBurger, and SOPAstrike thank their users for participating in Wednesday's "social disobedience" they warn users to remain vigilant.

Google's anti-SOPA, anti-PIPA Doodle, which was live for only a few hours, is back online

Using the social search engine Topsy we examine how Google, Wikipedia, Mozilla, WordPress, Reddit, and ICanhasCheezBurger's users tweeted awareness of the anti-SOPA, anti-PIPA campaigns

The Wikipedia community has spoken. A 24-hour anti-SOPA blackout protest will begin on Wednesday, January 18 at 5pm Western European Time (WET). During this 24-hour period, English language Wikipedia articles will be unavailable globally - a unprecedented move never before seen in the crowd-sourced encyclopedia's 11-year history.

The White House has stepped into the SOPA/PIPA debates: broadly criticising the acts, the entertainment industry and Silicon Valley.