While half a world away the events in the UK riots are captivating the world for not only the violence that’s occurred, but the methods in which local governments and law enforcement are looking at curbing future public unrest — cellular/social networking blackouts. And while some critics in the U.S. may stand up and call out UK officials for the blatant misuse of power, the problem of censorship and social blackouts are just as alive and real in the...

Often times when we speak of censorship it usually entails some sort of government/political tie-in. Though admittingly there are many other areas in society where “censorship” rears its ugly head. Unfortunately for Duke Nukem PR firm The Redner Group, today is the day in which the world learns just how shallow they really are. A couple of tweets sent out late yesterday from @TheRednerGroup threatened blacklisting journalists for negative reviews of the new...

Internet phone services such as Skype are about to have a much harder time operating within China’s borders, if at all. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that “We are carrying out with relevant authorities a campaign to crack down on illegal Voice over Internet Protocol phone services” — In this case, “illegal” means any service that is not state-owned and under the direct control of the Chinese...

Four days — that’s how long the unofficial Wikileaks iOS app lasted in the App Store. Sometime late last night, Apple removed said app without any explanation as to why. Yes, the site has posted controversial material. But thats what news organizations do. They report the news, regardless of what it is. The man behind Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has an equally questionable drama surrounding his personal life too with various accounts of sexual assault...

Word around the interwebs tonight is that Apple is getting all delete crazy on users creating threads in the support forums pertaining to a Consumer Report’s article.  The article in question highlights the same thing that any human with even the smallest shred of common sense already knows — the iPhone 4′s external antenna is major flaw that hampers the device.  This isn’t news. Hell, even Apple censoring negative discussin on their...