A few days ago, I posted a YouTube video showing a viral ad from Newsday advertising its new iPad app. The video shows a guy using an iPad to swat a fly, with the iPad shattering. Cool! But the video is now down, and I wonder why. It wasn’t taken down by a DMCA take-down […]
Yesterday, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote about his experiments in testing Chinese censorship of the internet. (See In China It’s ******* vs. Netizens, June 20, 2006, subscription required.) Kristof started two Chinese-language blogs and filled them with politically charged postings. He was surprised that the posts were quickly available online, with only an […]
