Category Archives: censorship
Google the Gate Keeper
A reminder that Google doesn’t really search “the web,” just a relatively narrow slice of it. From Threat Level: The homepage of Pirate Bay disappeared from Google’s search results Friday, after Google allegedly received a DMCA takedown notice targeting the site. The move is unexpected because, while the Pirate Bay is rife with pirated material, [...]
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iPhones of Mass Destruction and the Code War
According to Apple, jailbreaking your iPhone violates Apple’s license agreement, constitutes copyright infringement – and – is a threat to national security. Meet the new weapon of mass destruction: the hacked iPhone. Just like Saddam Hussein’s WMDs, the iPhone of Mass Destruction is more red herring than reality. In a nation obsessed with security, particularly [...]
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Amazon gets Orwellian with Orwell
On 07.17.09 Amazon got a bit Orwellian by remotely deleting copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm from people’s Kindles — copies that were legitimately purchased from Amazon (the original purchase was credited to people’s accounts). The Kindle is a small, portable and proprietary e-book reader — in many ways, Kindle is an iPod [...]
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Cookie Monsters published in CYE
Cindi Katz and I just published an article in a special issue of Children, Youth and Environments that focuses on Children and Technological Environments. CYE is an open access journal so you can read our article for free through their website (FYI – they ask you to create an account before providing access to the [...]
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good riddance COPA
F I N A L L Y. Via Daily Tech: After losing an appeals court challenge last July, proponents of 1998’s Child Online Protection Act received a final blow to their cause – this time from the United States Supreme Court, who quietly declined to review the law without comment. COPA – not to be [...]
wiretapping – at&t’s new marketing strategy
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while now, but what with article deadlines, ecycolpedia entries, the NUDA Summer School, and Euro-SSIG, I’m just now getting around to it. Back in June, at&t briefly flirted with the idea of using the scandal surrounding their illegal wiretapping of U.S. citizens’ domestic and international communications [...]
more surveillance, less security…
via Wired: Senate Approves Telco Amnesty, Legalizes Bush’s Secret Spy Program.
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giuliani time: policing the internet
From the 10.09.07 Republican Primary Debate in Michigan: MATTHEWS: OK. Lets go to the police. How would you police the Internet culturally, Mr. Mayor? GIULIANI: Pardon me? MATTHEWS: How would you police the Internet culturally? You know, the whole question about the stuff that’s going on, predators, that sort of thing… GIULIANI: Sure. I think [...]
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privatizing txt
Its official – txt space is private space. From the ny times: Saying it had the right to block “controversial or unsavory” text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from NARAL Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a text-message program… legal experts said private companies like Verizon [...]
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Whose Privacy?