Tag: BANNED

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/11/06/9-banned-apps-youll-never-see-on-the-iphone/'; There's no denying the runaway success of Apple's App Store: to date, iPhone and iPod touch users have downloaded some 2 billion applications from its ever-expanding library of 100,000. But there's also no escaping the rumblings of discontent from many consumers and developers who feel that Apple is ...

After that notorious homemade video, it's hard to call any other video featuring Pamela Anderson "racy." But, the animal-loving Anderson's new PETA advertisement stirred up so much controversy that CNN has reportedly pulled it from its airport network. Hollywood blog The Wrap reports that CNN was concerned about youngsters viewing the 'Cruelty Doesn't Fly' promo, which was scheduled to show in ...

A video game set at Guantanamo Bay, and made with the help of a former Gitmo detainee, has been pulled by developer T-Enterprise, read a statement posted to its Web site today. The game, 'Rendition Guantanamo,' was set to come out later this Fall, but, due to extreme reactions and controversy, the company has decided to not release the game at all. As profiled in a recent CBS News article, ...

Wikipedia, which characterizes itself as "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit," might need to tack a slight addendum on to the end of that description: "unless that anyone happens to log in from a computer owned by the Church of Scientology." According to the Register, the administrators of Wikipedia have decided to ban all editors who log on to the site from IP addresses owned by the ...

Facing increasing bad publicity and pressure from members and Web denizens, Facebook yesterday confirmed the removal of two Holocaust denial groups from the social networking service. The groups -- "Based on the facts...there was no Holocaust" and "Holocaust is a Holohoax" -- were aimed at folks who for some inexplicable reason seem to think the Holocaust never happened. According to an e-mail ...

According to Facebook's oft-criticized Terms of Service (TOS), members are not allowed to "post content that is hateful, threatening, pornographic or that contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence." After changing its original TOS in February, and then quickly switching back after a mild public uproar, Facebook means to prove that its new-old TOS are to be taken seriously. According to ...

We've seen countries institute some pretty weird regulations when it comes to wireless handsets, but this one is apt to seem patently absurd to anyone outside of (and possibly within) Sri Lanka. Government officials are reportedly gearing up to implement legislation that would require handset owners to "to carry a certificate of ownership at all times when carrying their phone around." The new ...

For the love of all that's humane in this world, it's about time someone stepped up and put an end to this lunacy. Okay, so maybe that's overstating things a bit, but we're joyous nonetheless to hear that the Kent County Council in southeast England has "become one of the first in the UK to ban mosquito gadgets from its buildings." Here's a refresher: So-called mosquito tones are high-pitched ...