Wired has released Mark Klein’s statement in its entirety just as a U.S. federal judge gags the EFF. Sploid sums it up.
“Wired” says the judge’s gag order regarding the documents was very specific, barring only the EFF and its employees from releasing the information. Their editors also dispute AT&T’s claim that the information was proprietary [...]
Another U.S. blogger (Jessaisms) got fired (from an Aquarium no less) for blogging and on top of this the employer used legal gesticulations, almost forcing her to delete the blog in question.
Metafilter - Another blogger gets fired for blogging.
Blogebrity is reporting that the latest victim is Jessa Jeffries whose blog Jessaisms got her booted. [...]
A Belgian company sues Google over Google Suggest and Brazil is itching to do the same over the distribution of “child pornography and racial materials” via Google’s Orkut social networking software. Not easy being Google these days, and even though these PR stunts are empty, deceitful and meaningless, they do play their part in boxing [...]
If I didn’t know better I’d say this was a concerted effort to run search engines and the free and open content system of the Internet into the ground. One day it’s paedophilia, the next it’s bogus terrorism and viruses. And when that isn’t getting the job done they turn to something else. Now they’re [...]
With the decline of net neutrality, Google may soon lose its ‘Free Lunch’ as one Verizon executive put it. And whatever one thinks of Google, that can’t be good news for the end user. The same sort of attacks on the open and free internet have been frequent these last couple of years. It is [...]
Last.fm seems to be in the process of changing offices, and bought most of their new furniture at IKEA. Here is the team (flickr) moving and putting together half a ton of EXPEDIT MDF shelves. Very nice and yet cost-efficient.
The U.S. federal government wants backdoors to tap into university networks all over the nation, starting next year. The 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, as outrageous as it is even in its most “limited” form, it also has to extend to university networks as well. Needless to say, this opens up a Pandora’s [...]
Boing Boing reports that “commercial” sites in the U.S. may soon be forced to “place official government warning labels on their pages or risk being imprisoned for up to five years.” Whatever commercial means? In the near future, any of the following may land you in prison:
sexual intercourse of all types; bestiality; masturbation; sadistic or [...]
Arstechnica implies these 61% actually prefer the MSN Messenger protocol but it seems more likely that they either had no choice or didn’t think twice about it. Results also vary wildly between geographic regions. But seriously, doesn’t anyone use the ICQ protocol anymore? I could see myself moving to … anything but MSN. Offline messages [...]
In other news, jumping off cliffs can be detrimental to your health. So at least in North America, only 1% actually download and listen to Podcasts. I’m not surprised. Personally I’ve never done it. I don’t even use streaming media. In fact I can barely define what strictly constitutes a Podcast. I like things I [...]
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