When I lived in Washington, DC, I was lucky enough to be on the same power grid as the local power company’s headquarters. During an outage, the utility’s site would show me a near-live map displaying how many customers were without power, where they were located and most importantly, where repair crews were headed next. […]
“From now on, any person who habitually consults websites that advocate terrorism or that call for hatred and violence will be criminally punished” — Nicolas Sarkozy, March 22, 2012. In the wake of a terrible tragedy in Toulouse in which Mohamed Merah (killed by police after a long standoff) reportedly murdered three Jewish children and […]
As more people have started using microblogging sites, China has struggled to implement the same level of control that they have imposed on the web. On March 30 China took steps to intensify their scrutiny of microblogging sites, shutting down 16 sites and detaining six people for spreading rumors of an attempted coup in Beijing. […]
