Tag Archives: censorship

Apple banned Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist’s app because it “ridicules public figures”

April 15, 2010

Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist Mark Fiore, who won this year’s Pulitzer for his editorial cartoons, says he tried to make an iPhone app but it was just too politically hot for Apple’s guidelines. From Nieman Labs (h/t Poynter): In December, Apple… Continue reading →

Discussion 2 Comments Category thoughts Tags , , , , , ,

Clinton in China, and “Internet Freedom”

January 22, 2010

“As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.” – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 21, 2010

Discussion Leave a comment Category thoughts Tags , , ,

Google publicly calls out China over hacking of human rights advocates’ accounts

January 12, 2010

On the Google Blog, Google’s chief legal counsel David Drummond reveals that a “highly sophisticated and targeted” attack on its corporate infrastructure was traced back to China. The objective, Google believes, was to compromise the GMail accounts of Chinese human-rights… Continue reading →

Discussion 1 Comment Category thoughts Tags , ,