Flickr Recognized Yet Again for Complete Disregard of its Users

The complaint (box quoted to the left in two parts) comes from a friend who asked to remain anonymous. Remember, complaints are like cockroaches: when you hear one, there are a thousand more you don't hear. ...

War Crimes Trials for Israelis for Gaza? Almost impossible

"The International Criminal Court in The Hague has no jurisdiction to investigate in the Gaza Strip, as it is not a state. Though the Palestinian Authority has been functioning as an interim sovereign polity since...

RoadRunner Spam Blocking Out of Control

A friend of Jace's just emailed us asking desperately for help with her son, who has AS and is exclaiming the desire to kill himself and wishing that everyone in the world was dead (due to social abuse, it seems,...

Fox News's Steve Doocy Censored Speaker For Bringing Up Keating Five

Okay, I have a few things from Fox that are interesting. First, there is a video out of Fox New's Cavuto saying that the problem with the economy is giving loans to "minorities and other high riskies". Now this, from Steve Doocy. Notice Doocy interupted the speaker numerous...

Bill Clinton's Convention Speech to be on a Delay to "prevent problems"

Bill Clinton said he is, "surprised" that Howard Dean insisted he be put on a Delay to keep control if he departs from his approved speech.  He added to a reporter, and I am quoting here, "It's just like...

flickr Staff Heather Champ: Bad Sport - PT I

i received feedback on my anti-flickr postings (on my blog) from some other users. One caught my attention specifically because of pointing the finger at the thread and account deletion god-complex named Heather...

flickr: Racist and Homophobic, or Scamming? [UPDATED]

UPDATED: See Links By Fellow Censred Flickrites at end. By now, readers of my tales of whoa regarding my personal flickr.com experiences know that i have an ax to grind with flickr staff and "leadership." Take that...

Controversy surrounds Vancouver Sun real estate piece

Local real estate bloggers are asking questions about why comments mysteriously disappeared from an article about the Vancouver scene. "This weekend the Vancouver Sun ran a story about the top 15 real estate myths...

Sen. Brownback: China will spy on you at the Olympics

China will Monitor your internet acitivity while at Olympics Back in the news this week.  We first reported on the Senators comments about 12 weeks ago China is pressuring hotels to put in internet filtering...

France's first lady to go naked

"A nude portrait of the French first lady, Carla Bruni, is to go up for auction at Christie's next month. The photograph was taken more than a decade ago when the now wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy was working as a model. The gelatin silver print by photographer...

FCC To Probe Comcast's Alleged Blocking Of File Sharing

"THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WILL probe complaints that Comcast Corp. interferes with traffic to file-sharing sites as well as allegations that wireless companies prevent some groups from sending text messages to consumers, Chairman Kevin Martin said Tuesday. "Sure,...

Australia Joins China In Censoring The Internet

"The Australian Government has announced that they will be joining China as one of the few countries globally that broadly censor the internet. The Labor Party’s policy was announced prior to the Australian Election in November (release here) and was justified on the basis...

Catholic school board bans Godless book

Banning so-called atheistic books is a dumb move in my opinion.  For someone to develop a solid world view it needs to be challenged.  What are they so afraid of?  (Answer: eternal damnation)."The...

BBC Un-censors The Pogues' Christmas classic

UPDATE: Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt has reversed his decision to censor the Pogues Classic ‘Fairytale of New York’ Christmas single after receiving over 3000 emails protesting the decision."BBC Radio 1 has...

flickr: i'm Still Calling it Censorship

flicked off by flickr staff ""Your account has been reviewed as unsafe and NIPSA by Flickr staff."" Tell me what's unsafe about it. The account they deleted was reviewed by flicker staff and marked as safe about a couple of days before they deleted...

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