Tag: PROTEST

Social networking gives us a cross-section of virtually every political opinion known to man. Are there racists and bigots? Of course. Tree-huggers and granola-munchers? Absolutely. And that's the magic. They may not subscribe to the same worldview or all check the same box every November, but the political masses are here, online, making their presence known. What we have before us is, for ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Free Press plans to lead an army of allied organizations, including MoveOn.org, Civic Action, ColorofChange.org, Credo Action and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, in a Net neutrality protest today at Google's Mission View, California headquarters. If you just heard a strange sound in Lower Manhattan, that was a huge ...

Chinese officials are cracking down on some of the most dangerous technology to fall into Tibetans' peacefully clasped hands: the photocopier. Lhasa Evening News reported earlier this month that the ruling Chinese government fears that photocopiers may be used to reproduce politically dangerous material, and have begun working on regulating access to the machines by way of copying permits. Print ...

After Governor Chris Christie proposed widespread cuts in funding for New Jersey's educational system, one former New Jersey high school student took it upon herself to organize a statewide walkout, via Facebook. Eighteen-year-old Michelle Ryan Lauto, a student at Pace University, created a special event on Facebook calling for all students to take to the streets in protest during regular ...

It used to be that distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks were strictly the realm of digital gangsters and elite hacker crooks. But, as part of a worrying trend, a growing number of political and activist groups have begun to employ such tactics as a form of protest. What's more, these hacktivists, as they're called, are developing new techniques for taking out servers and defacing Web sites ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The cyber storm brewing between Google and China could inspire its own network television tale of international Internet espionage. The most recent revelation concerning the Google hack has shown that China employed a familiar technique to lead Google employees to malware-infested sites: social network stalking. By posing as ...

If you tried to visit Twitter last night, at around 1 a.m. EST you might have seen this message in broken English: THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don't, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To.... NOW WHICH ...

Since the first reports that Iranians had taken to Twitter to express their outrage over the dubious reelection of incumbent leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over Mir Hossein Mousavi on Monday, Iranian officials have reportedly cracked down on online media. Tuesday, the Iranian government banned international reporters from leaving their headquarters and filming the ongoing protests, claiming to have ...

Who knew that that the Amazon Kindle would prove to be such a flash point for controversy? The device's text-to-speech capabilities rankled the Authors Guild, which then pushed Amazon to disable the feature, or at least allow publishers to opt out of it. This has, in turn, gotten the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) up in arms. Today, the NFB is taking to the streets outside the Authors ...

As TV manufactures galore loaded into the Las Vegas Convention Center for CES 2009, something began stirring deep in the bowels of the Earth. Whether it was black-magic or the alignment of the planets, we're not sure, but scores of undead walking television sets descended upon the Las Vegas pavement to extract revenge on their manufacturers. Or at least that's how the 'story' goes. In ...

Antagonist online response to a recent Motrin advertisement has led Johnson & Johnson to pull the offending ad and offer a public apology, reports All Things Digital. The ad in question, which features a narrator complaining of the body pains experienced by mothers who carry their babies in modern-day papooses, riled up lots of folks, creating a furor in the blogosphere and Twitterdom. In ...

The Chinese government has booted NYC resident Noel Hidalgo from the country after he took part in a protest of China's occupation of Tibet in Tiananmen Square. While Hidalgo is far from being the only person to be deported in response to protests during the Olympics, he is the only person who has covered his arrest and deportation live on Twitter and via the video streaming service Qik (the ...

Last week uber-photo-site Flickr launched a new service enabling subscribers to post videos to the site. Users can now list their moving pictures in galleries right next to their still ones. Most Flickr members accepted this new feature with open arms, but some Luddites organized a protest to have the video feature removed. The fear was that the addition would result in an influx of jokers who ...

The free flow of information is one of the basic rights those in open societies claim as an advantage over those who live in closed societies, and one right many Web surfers may take for granted. Case in point: if you lived in China right now, you'd find your access to YouTube denied as that country attempts to block its sizable population from viewing videos of recent demonstrations in Tibet's ...

Auction site eBay has been suffering at the hands of an online protest over a change in how it charges sellers for listing and selling goods. The change has resulted in a substantial increase in costs for sellers. The changes lowered the initial fees for sellers to list items on eBay, but increased the commission charged on completed sales. Additionally, the feedback system was altered to ...