What’s better than an already over-restrictive and anti-consumer digital based bill moving through an technologically intellectual congress? How about censorship? Yes folks, it appears more countries and governments want to be exactly like China and their “great firewall” in every way. Under the guise of “copyright protection” lawmakers site that such blocking measures would help protect IP and make the planet an overall better place to live....
You know, with each passing day of not being able to see the Olympics live either how I want on TV or god forbid, stream anything worthwhile, it becomes more and more clear — NBC flat out sucks as a network. Earlier this year they handled the whole Tonight Show/Jay Leno/Conan Obrian fiasco in a less than stellar manner and now they are in the process of making this one of the worst Olympics yet. To say coverage is terrible is a gross understatement. The blatant...
While the controversy around Google and China continues to push on, albeit at a more subdued tone, someone else looks to be crawling into the brawl. Iran, the most favorite country in the world has announced today that it plans to completely block any and all access to Gmail. The reasoning given by government officials to the WallStreet Journal claim that it is to “further technological innovation” within the country and that a nationalized email system will...
How often do we see government officials lambasting some part of the internet, telling tales of how it’s evil and destroying the world? Unless you live in a cave deep underground, away from human civilization, it’s an almost weekly occurrence. With that said, we’ve seen the internet, and more importantly social networking play a big role over the last year in regards to world events. Election revolts in Iran — need I say more? The latest online...
The big news on the interwebs a couple of weeks ago centered around this small little attack on Google by some nefarious hackers originating outside of the county. After some digging around, the general consensus is that it came from China, more importantly the Chinese government. Even a few weeks later, the whole Google/China scene is a cluster and actually finding the people responsible has proven to be quite difficult even for someone with pretty extensive resources...
