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Seriously, Starbucks? It's just Tumblr... Members Public

[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/02/seriously-starbucks-3557.html] Content blocking at work in Starbucks. Time to fire up the personal hotspot from my iPhone…

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Automattic backs WordPress bloggers in court Members Public

Parker Higgins [http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2013/12/wordpress-goes-to-court-to-defend-censored-bloggers/] : > The blogging platform WordPress.com has taken the unusual — and welcome — step of going to court to defend its users against bogus copyright claims aimed at silencing their speech on the platform. Automattic, WordPress’s parent company, has joined

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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Cameron's porn policy problem Members Public

Good piece by Martin Bryant on the problems with Cameron’s default porn filtering plan: > This post you’re reading right now isn’t pornographic, but it’s probably been blocked by lots of filters in libraries, cafés and workplaces, simply for using certain keywords. It’s almost enough

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Adam Tinworth
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LeWeb: The media and Wikileaks Members Public

Adrian Monck is chairing a media panel, and inevitably we’re focusing on WikiLeaks. We’ve always had leaks, says Julio Alonso of Weblogs S. “The WikiLeaks phenomenon is not new, but it has a different form. ” The closing of Amazon and PayPal accounts , the problems with wikileaks DNS, are

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Adam Tinworth
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