It amazed me a few weeks ago when a federal judge ruled that Google had to turn over the viewer logs for YouTube to Viacom, in Viacom’s lawsuit. I read a lot of blogs that quickly blasted the decision as an invasion of privacy. It looks like they were following the tinfoil hat committee: Google […]
Ahh yes – freedom: Pakistan has become the latest country to block access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube on the grounds that one or more videos on the site offend Islam, authorities said Monday. The Pakistani government is also asking YouTube to remove “objectionable content,” said Nabiha Mehmood, a spokeswoman for the Pakistani Telecommunications […]
Since my last post about the comment left at Maine Web Report calling for a terrorist attack at San Franciso, a lot has happened. I did similar posts atCrooks and Liars and Firedoglake. Markos also did a post on the comment. In walk Newsbusters. Now they are saying how wrong we are about it and that […]
Today I installed the new commenting system. It somewhat resembles the Haloscan system you may be accustomed to from such sites as Crooks and Liars. This one is a little more featured back however. It offers actual threaded comments. For those not familiar with threaded comments, you now have the option of replying to an […]