Does the Internet have any effect on the way we live? Is the Web influencing society, religion, politics, even the way we interact? Are we in danger of losing our humanity or will technology end up enhancing it? We’ll bring you stories and sites that illustrate, illuminate and make you think about the profound, sometimes sublime, ways that the Internet touches our lives.
Microsoft is being roundly criticized for censoring the MSN Spaces blog of a Chinese journalist in response to demands from Chinese censors, although not as severely as Yahoo! was criticized last year for helping the Chinese police uncover the identity of an online critic of the government.
Meanwhile, Reporters Without Borders has put forward its suggestion [...]
Nothing gets my ire up more than people who don’t pick up after their dogs. I’ve watched people letting their dogs relieve themselves on my lawn with no intention of picking it up, and then get upset when I’ve confronted them about it. So when I read this story out of Korea I was quite [...]
Updating the Google Library entry of last week, the Google Watch.org has obtained a copy of Google’s agreement with the University of Michigan and posted it on the Internet. Start reading the saga here, and for the actual agreement, follow links here. The mystery is, of course, if the entire agreement is so confidential, why [...]
If you wander about the Internet long enough, connections appear, sometimes answers to questions. Last fall I wondered about what Google is going to do with all the databases and information it collects on all the users of its various businesses. Also noted was addition of a sort of ‘zine to Google’s social [...]
From Free Press:
You’ve probably heard by now: Right-wing political commentator Armstrong Williams admitted receiving $240,000 from the Department of Education to promote the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind Act on national television - including dozens of Sinclair stations - without disclosing that he was on the government’s payroll.
Laws have been broken. Williams issued [...]
From Freepress.net:
Media giant Pappas Telecasting, with TV and radio stations across the nation, will give $325,000 worth of air time on their stations for GOP candidates in many of California’s tightest elections. This is first time we know of that a media giant has given away airtime for partisan ads.
Pappas is abusing its access to [...]
From The Guardian:
Sinclair Broadcast Group, a conservative-owned chain of television stations which has provoked an uproar by its plans to broadcast incendiary allegations against John Kerry, has sacked its chief political correspondent for speaking out against the decision.
The Washington bureau chief, Jon Lieberman, said he had been dismissed for “telling the truth.” But [...]
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