There’s a scramble by governments to track their citizens online. Because of rapid advances in technology, it’s possible to build complete profiles of people through their online aliases and email accounts. And anyone with enough know how can do it too.
Do you have a Myspace? How many forums have you posted to in your life? [...]
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Dial Web 2.0 for Censorship
May 2, 2007I admit, I almost fell for Web 2.0. But this morning I had a rude awakening.
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My article on Newsvine was censored. Hundreds of Digg articles were censored. Web 2.0 has just shown its huge weakness – its unaccountability.
See, normal news media is supposed to uphold a standard of quality. If news breaks about accounting errors [...]