Piffey

cryptic ramblings on culture and technology from south dakota

Tag: censorship

Facebook and Organizing the Web Socially

What implications does Facebook eclipsing Google have on the evolution of the web?

Australia Bans Female Orgasm In Film Citing It As Abhorrent

Australia finished setting up its great firewall and began filtering their Internet (like much-accused China) this year censoring protests, pornography, and anything else the government-appointed censorship board found to be amoral. The secret, unpublished list has continued to grow as more and more websites are filtered and more reasons to filter are invented. Censorship in [...]

Google Hacked By China

Google reported on its blog today that the company has been repeatedly attacked by Chinese hackers, possibly working for the government, over a span of what could be up to two years. The Mountain View company is using this as an opportunity to finally turn back to their “don’t be evil” philosophy and tell China [...]