Joe's Jottings

Tagged: censorship

You may have missed this...the day China pulled the plug.

· censorship, civil-disobedience, civil-liberties, facebook, routing-failure, twitter, politics, privacy-issues, technology

You might have missed this.  I certainly did - but then again for the last week or two I've been running around like the proverbial 'blue arsed fly' trying to juggle a variety of personal, professiona…

Facebook and the panic button....

· censorship, civil-liberties, privacy, personal-stuff, politics, privacy-issues, technology, the-media

Since the recent case in which a teenage girl was groomed and murdered by a paedophile via the Facebook site, there has been a lot of pressure from the UK Government for Facebook to put a 'Panic Butto…

PCC, Stephen Gately and liberal backlash

· censorship, morality, personal-stuff, privacy-issues, the-media

The Press Complaints Commissionshas decided not to uphold complaints about an article by Jan Moirabout the circumstances surrounding Stephen Gately's death.  I'm not going to rehash the details of the…

Is this a valid test of Social Media Newsgathering?

· censorship, facebook, twitter, personal-stuff, politics, the-media

A few days ago I came across this news story, in which a group of French journalists are to be holed up in a farmhousesomewhere with no access to normal news media but with access to Social Media - Tw…

Google does the right thing (for Google, that is)

· censorship, google, personal-stuff, politics, technology

For a long time I've taken the mickey out of Google's famous slogan 'Do No Evil'.  I mean, most companies and individuals go through life with their ethical and moral compass intact and manage to perf…

The last freedom moped from nowhere city....

· censorship, civil-disobedience, personal-stuff, politics, the-media

Back in the 1980s there was a sit com on British TV called'The Young Ones'), which was based in a student house and followed the surreal adventures of the students who lived there.  One of the charact…

What goes in to a blog?

· censorship, george-orwell, blogs-and-blogging, personal-stuff, philosophy, the-media

I recently came across a couple of articles about blogging. Well, I'll be honest - they were in my Twitter feed and I took a look at them to see what other people's views were on the subject of conten…

Do No Evil - Ursula Le Guin, The Authors Guild and Google

· censorship, google, literature, philosophy, politics, technology, the-media

During Google's formative years, the company decided to come up withthe equivalent of a short mission / vision statement that summed up what it was to be Google.  After some serious thinking, the slog…

Is this really to the public good?

· censorship, privacy, public-interest-defence, personal-stuff, philosophy, politics, technology, the-media

 A couple of weeks ago I came acrossthis article in the Guardian(not my normal read, but their online media pages are useful) referring to the publication by the Wikileaks organisationof an archive of…

Twitter hacked - not the end of the world, no surprise, and a badge of honour.

· censorship, civil-disobedience, routing-failure, blogs-and-blogging, online-communities, politics, technology, the-media

There's a scene in the movie 'Blazing Saddles' where the Waco Kid, being asked why he's ended up in prison for drunkenness, bewails the fact that when he was the well known gun-slinger everyone wanted…