In the fall out of Prism some things have really changed
In the fall out of the NSA Government spying row a number of things have become readily apparent from both the business security viewpoint and the personal security viewpoint. From the Business Viewpoint we have landed firmly in the Catch 22 world, on one side we have government regulations that tell companies what they must […]
Social Media is Really Tough in China. At Least There is Quora.
SaaStr is in Shanghai for the month of July. While I have internet access and an iPad … it’s tough to stay connected with the domestic SaaStr audience. Why? Well, first almost everything is blocked: Facebook, Twitter, WordPress (as an app and URL — individual sites with custom URLs sometimes barely work, sometimes not at […]
Arbitrary censorship and unevenly applied rules at Facebook and Smugmug
When Facebook logged me out everywhere, including social networks like Klout, Kred, Empire Avenue, and Facebook feeds into other systems, the amount of hysteria caused by automated connections, and the Facebook SSO sign on multiple sites failed
Facebook Censorship really happens
Really now, how does this violate community standards? Just asking.
Why is Quora Censoring our Questions and Answers?
Answer: They are too smart for their own good and not smart enough for everyone else’s. Molly Ivins once quipped, “The strongest human emotion is neither love nor hate. It is one person’s desire to f#ck with another person’s copy” Well we’re not talking Farenheit 451, more like a quarter of that temperature but complaints […]
Wikileaks & Amazon – and Why That Was Good for the Rest of Us.
In his post about Amazon & Wikileaks, Krishnan’s position was that Amazon kicking out Wikileaks without a fair legal due process was in fact damaging for those of us who are proponents of the (public) cloud. Krishnan and I were debating this issue last night over Twitter. I disagreed with Krishnan, so I wanted to […]
Now We Know Why The City Never Sleeps
Now we know why The Citi Never Sleeps: they are busy censoring their customers. If you are a Citibank customer and they dislike your blog, you may just get in trouble. (Disclosure: I do have a Citi account… so am taking a risk by writing this post.) That’s just what happened to fabulis, a social […]
Google's Shot at the Waterline with China
Yesterday Google dropped the biggest corporate bombshell in recent memory with the announcement that they are reviewing their operations in China following a very sophisticated cyber attack against Google and some 20 other companies (including Rack Space) that targeted intellectual property and the Chinese dissident community. This has implications that go far beyond the explosion […]
