Censorship
Google unveils government requests tool
April 21, 2010: 5:35 PM ETNew tool shows which governments pull content and how much from Google's sites.
Google today announced that it was unveiling a tool to increase its transparency when dealing with governments and their takedown requests.
Strangely, China is absent from the results. Maybe China asked for that to be pulled down too.
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Apple iPhone ad banned in the U.K.
Even with its flaws, the iPhone is pretty impressive. But from the first, Apple's TV ads for the device have made it look a little better than it is. Maps pop up without any annoying delay. Apps download almost instantly. Calls are never ever dropped.
Now a government agency has called the company on it. According to reports in the Guardian and the BBC, Britain's Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 27, 2008 8:07 AM ET -
Apple bans a comic book, firestorm ensues
Murderdrome is not Ulysses, Lolita or Lady Chatterley's Lover. It's a dark, bloody comic strip marked by the type of over-the-top violence that has made its genre so popular among young readers with a lot of pent-up rage.
But Murderdrome has now joined the pantheon of suppressed fiction as the first digital book banished from Apple's App Store by censors in Cupertino.
News that the work had been rejected by Apple was MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 27, 2008 7:26 AM ETPosted in: App Store, Apple, Censorship, Infurious Comics, iPhone, iTunes, Murderdrome, PJ Holden, SDK
