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First, a quick sidenote: I’m glad to see this year finally come to a close, for various reasons. However, I’d still like to end it on a high note at least as this blog is concerned. And so with that I bring forth this BBC News article, regarding an ambitious anti-censorship plan that’s truly out [...] The title of the MAFIAAFire forum post “The Copyright Lobby Absolutely Loves Child Pornography” is intentionally controversial and eye-grabbing, but when you look at the actual content of the post all of a sudden the politics and chess game of censorship as played by the copyright lobby makes all kinds of sense. From the article, [...] I ran across this story in my drafts folder and considered just deleting it like about 50-75% or so of the stories I make draft entries for and never get around to turning into actual posts. On one hand, this story is months old, and nothing new has happened in this story since February. However, [...] 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 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 [...] This one’s been sitting in the draft folder for a while, and I wanted to get it out there before it got too stale. This one’s based on a first hand account. The blog, appropriately enough, is entitled “Where are we going & why are we in this handbasket.” It’s a bit too long for [...] |
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