Archive for September 6th, 2006
revolt against facebook
Facebook released several new features Tuesday, including something it calls “news feed,” which appears on users’ homepages and reports every move their friends make. It’s not the information that’s new, just how it’s being presented. And apparently many of the 8 million-plus Facebook users don’t like it. According to Al Tomkins, by 9:45 [...]
uberman olbermann
Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s Countdown, is all over the web today for lambasting the Bush Administration’s new election-season angle of attack on media dissent (the most effective way to limit any dissent). In a series of speeches this week, first Rumsfeld and then Bush linked American journalists with the Nazis and al Qaeda, [...]
it’s the end of the world (wide web) as we know it…
…well, not yet, but a case which threatens free speech on the net has been brought to the California Supreme Court:
The California Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in San Francisco Tuesday on whether someone who posts a defamatory comment by another person on the Internet can be sued for libel.
Two civil liberties groups [...]
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