Recent headlines:
Microsoft Shuts Blog’s Site After Complaints by Beijing (and later recants)
Google to Censor China Web Searches (and provides their rational)
Online game warns gay-lesbian guild (and provides their rational)
All of these articles deal with a fundamental business issue: As companies depend more and more on audiences that are taken from the entire cultural [...]
Congress and the FCC are beating the “indecency in television is corrupting our culture” drums again. And to be honest, I’m not horribly interested in the debate although perhaps I should be. I’m sure there is a fundamental right-to-something at risk. But the “blaming the egg for the chicken” aspect to [...]
“No Child Left Behind” Act, Section 9528, pg 559:
Each local educational agency receiving assistance under this Act shall provide, on a request made by military recruiters or an institution of higher education, access to secondary school students names, addresses, and telephone listings.
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Each local educational agency receiving assistance under this Act shall provide military recruiters the [...]
I hate it when this happens. I’ve been working on a blog entry about the whole gay rights/same-sex marriage issue for a while now. Then I discover that someone on CraigsList pretty much sums everything up in a nice tidy response to some gay-basher’s post. It provides a nice shot-from-hip response that [...]