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There are some law enforcement agencies I just don’t expect to be seen in a bad PR light, that I honestly would trust to do a decent job. And the US Park Police was on that list. I emphasize was, because I watched this YouTube video: A report at WTOP.com has a bit more [...] Health care professionals are supposed to do no harm, per the Hippocratic Oath. Who would ever have thought that some of these so-called “professionals” would partake of censorship? Timothy Lee’s recent article on arstechnica.com highlights a dentist who is in fact doing exactly this: I needed a new dentist, and Yelp says Dr. Cirka is [...] A recent Ars Technica story highlights the recent actions of Judge Milton Shadur (who I’m going to refer to as Judge Milton) against two cases filed by copyright lawyer John Steele. Steele had the misfortune of two similar cases landing in Judge Milton’s court, both copyright infringement cases involving pornography, and both identifying the defendants [...] A recent Ars Technica story simply must be read to be believed. The official Twitter account for the non-profit Reel Grrls, based in Seattle, WA, posted a tweet highly critical of Comcast, and particularly FCC Commissioner Merideth Baker’s acceptance of a lobbyist position immediately after approving the Comcast-NBC merger. The vice president of communications for [...] Harvey Anderson, a Mozilla employee in charge of legal and business affairs, recently blogged about a request by the Department of Homeland Security to take down the MafiaaFire add-on. The apparent issue DHS has with the plug-in is that it redirects the users from one domain to another automatically, which is usually not a big [...] Joe McGinniss recently blogged about a most unusual story out of Wasilla, Alaska, also reported by the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman. The principal, Dwight Probasco, told the school’s symphonic jazz choir they could not sing the song “Bohemian Rhapsody” because the songwriter, Freddie Mercury, was gay. (Eventually, Mr. Probasco relented and allowed the song to be [...] While hardly a fresh topic, I’ve never really blogged about this, and it came up in a recent discussion on IRC. In particular, a user identified as “MTecknology” pointed me to his blog entry on the topic, which seems to take a stance opposing the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in their [...] |
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