Posts Tagged with ‘restrictions’

First, let me point out that there is in fact a difference – a big difference - between censoring the Web and shutting it down completely (or at least a portion of it), as has been done in Myanmar, or Burma, as it is more familiarly known. Yet I think you’ll agree that both measures can be very impactful.
That said, this is pretty big news. I mean, the people working China’s “Great Firewall” have essentially blocked all RSS feeds. Nationwide. [...]

When it comes to the social side of Web 2.0 – you know, the MySpaces, the Facebooks – I’m lost. I do very well understand why such places exist, I simply cannot for the life of me grasp why they’ve become so popular, and, furthermore, managed to remain so. Baffling, really. When I consider all the time misspent maintaining relations with “friends” lists, most of whose contacts hold no real allegiance to one another anyhow, I wonder how such holes [...]