Perhaps you remember last year when I discovered that, if you Google “What time is it in Ramallah?”, Google would serve up one of their weird little “boxes” that claimed Ramallah was part of Israel. I let a friend at Google know, and within a week, the problem was fixed…and for awhile, a search for […]
I just got around to watching this in the course of a book chapter I’m writing on participatory media in the Middle East, but it’s absolutely still worth a watch. Choice quote: “We did all of this for the sake of a different media, a media that respected people’s minds and intelligence and at the […]
Normally, I’d have pitched an op-ed rebuttal or something, but this is just too stupid not to tear apart quick-and-dirty blog style. The TL;DR for context is that Ronan Farrow, privileged celeb commentator, wrote a ridiculous Washington Post piece about how social media companies should censor terrorists. Nevermind that this debate is two years old, […]