I am incredibly saddened and deeply enraged to report that my good friend Slim Amamou, Tunisian blogger and activist, was arrested yesterday (see @Malekk’s announcement here). After no one had heard from him for several hours, Slim posted his location to FourSquare to let his friends know where he was. The location? The Ministry of […]
Tag: censorship
The UK is in talks for a national filter that would block pornography. Not child sex abuse (nobody sane is arguing over whether that should be accessible), but legal, adult pornography. The idea is to protect the UK’s children, and since adults have the choice of getting out of the filter, then there’s nothing wrong […]
I’ve about had it with Massachusetts. Seriously. I can’t buy wine on Thanksgiving or in the supermarket, happy hour drink specials are outlawed, and boy, that law about not being able to use tomatoes in clam chowder really gets me. In all seriousness, a law proposed earlier this year really makes me angry. From the […]