by Sami Ben Gharbia In this roundup: (1) Indonesia blocks YouTube over “Fitna” the movie. (2) Saudi Arabia: Fouad Alfarhan’s blog and Freefouad blocked. (3) Slide blocked in Turkey. (4) Yemen blocks Maktoob blogging platform. 1. Indonesia blocks YouTube over “Fitna” the movie The Indonesian government has ordered the country’s internet service providers to block YouTube for publishing […]
Brazil: Blogs banned from the 2008 elections
by Paula Góes Brazil is warming up for local elections later this year, in October, when voters will go to the polls to choose their local government representatives. The Supreme Electoral Court [the TSE, the Portuguese acronym for Tribunal Superior Eleitoral] has just passed the regulations for voting, and again, the opportunity to better discuss […]
Argentina: Web Entrepreneurs in Palermo Valley
by Jorge Gobbi Twitter has been one of the most talked about tools in 2007, and communites have been created around short messages or microblogging. Many were quick to realize its usefulness or its “fashionable” status. In spite of all of this, Twitter remains in use, with more users each day and with hundreds of […]
Hillary Annexes the Holy Land (of Ireland)
The Lefties are in love with not only their own reflections in the water, but with their own fairy tale renderings of history. This has been made clear in countless ways throughout what the rest of us call factual history. For instance, the Lefty Fascists now insist—and insist adamantly—that fascism is the domain of the […]
World how are you
Coffee battle: Fertile ground for baristas AI scenario: Robot lovers are coming Internet bookings: Death of the travel agent Office romance: Keep loving workers on the job Memorable proposal: Matters of the heart Red roses: You pay to say it with flowers Retro look: Heat leaves us cold on ties Start at 70: It’s never […]
Beware of that NY greeting! It could be Storm worm
Watch out! The Storm worm, loves the holidays. So don’t dare to open that ‘New Year Greeting’ from an unknown sender in your inbox. It may be an internet worm that will clog your mail box, send spam to your friends from your ID and slow down your computer. It is one […]