My thanks to Mary Brandel for taking up the subject of cyberstalking in today’s Computerworld article, Five Ways to Defeat Blog Trolls and Cyberstalkers (for full page version). She interviewed me at length and we had a comprehensive discussion on the subject. This is a topic that internet free speech absolutists and blogging [...]
Read full post...After getting no satisfaction in my effort to get a Blogger.com website taken down which assumes my identity in order to savage my beliefs, I have consulted an intellectual property attorney and plan to send this letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt outlining my case against the site:
Dr. Eric Schmidt
CEO
Google
1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy
Mountain View, CA 94043
Dear [...]
Kudos to Congressmember Christopher Smith for chairing today’s hearing at which he summoned Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco to answer for their collusion with Chinese authorities in censoring their offerings. In the case of Yahoo, the company even provided crucial information leading to the arrest and imprisonment of two online dissidents.
Internet executives defend censorship [...]
I can’t tell you how many different times and ways I’ve tried to get Tikun Olam linked or featured at media websites. Sites like Salon.com, Slate.com, Nytimes.com, Truthdig, Huffington Post, you name it, and I’ve e mailed them about my content. No takers. Perhaps I don’t get enough traffic or I don’t [...]
Read full post...The past two days brought interesting technology news on the freedom front. Yesterday, Tom Zoeller wrote about the willing role that the major internet companies play in China’s massive and sophisticated campaign to block its citizens from ‘forbidden knowledge.’
Though the article centered on Microsoft’s shameful acquiescence in a Chinese directive to shut down the [...]
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