facebook’s not-so-great firewall

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

I am a twitter user and a facebook user. On facebook, I have it set so that the status message is automatically pulled from my twitter stream. Recently, I’ve noticed that many of my tweets don’t make it onto facebook.
One reason I like the twitter messages going to facebook is that facebook has a [...]

A suggestion to get Apple out of the censorship business

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

After reading Trent Reznor’s expletive-filled mini-rant about Apple’s App Store approval process, which I basically agreed with, it got me to thinking: why does Apple want to be the decency police in the first place?
Apparently, when you submit your app to the App Store, they have people using it and looking for naughty words interspersed [...]

Learn to keep your mouth shut

Monday, July 25th, 2005

The linked story discusses Manlin Chee, a Chinese-American immigration attorney. In a nutshell, she was put in jail for a year because the FBI set her up and she filed some papers for them that she shouldn’t have. The more interesting bit of the timeline is that the FBI’s “sting” came after she had participated [...]

You can’t say anything bad about the Jews

Tuesday, September 4th, 2001

OK, the title might be a little harsh, but ever since the Holocaust happened, it’s been pretty much true. (See, I feel I even have to say that in order to cover my ass.)
They’ve become an untouchable ethnic group – considered above reproach – simply because there was a highly public, disgusting perpetration of [...]