Google’s announcement about China is rather stunning in many respects from its candidness to the rather bold decision to potentially leave China over “[t]hese attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web…”.
Some may remember a few years ago that Yahoo! controversially [...]
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Google vs. China
Political Statement Via Add-on
This is the first time I’ve ever seen a Firefox Add-on used as a way to make a political statement. An Add-on called China Channel will replicate in Firefox what it’s like to be behind the Great Firewall of China. So if you want to see what it’s like not being able to [...]
China Blocks RSS
China’s Great Firewall has now started blocking RSS, a long known loophole to get information blocked all other ways. An entire syndication standard is now blocked. According to the Ars Technica:
PSB appears to have extended this block to all incoming URLs that begin with “feeds,” “rss,” and “blog,” thus rendering the RSS feeds [...]
Bush tells the world to go away
Bush has taken his political policies to the web. He’s blocking non-american IP addresses now. Once again telling every non-American to go to hell. An interesting note is that he might by trying to keep Americans overseas from reading his website before deciding who to vote for. Vote blind rather than [...]
Banned books
Some things are just sick. The list of banned books is one of them. Lets take a little look at a few shall we?
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Ok, who are we kidding here? I’ve had to read this one dozens of times growing up.
6. Of Mice and Men [...]
FU FCC
This is the best thing I’ve heard in ages:
http://www.pythonline.com/plugs/idle/FCCSong.mp3
So true, so true. And F**** you Bush, F*** you Cheney, F*** Asscrot, F*** you FCC.
