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César Albarrán Torres

Israeli Raid Canceled After Facebook Leak - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by César Albarrán Torres on 03 Mar 10 - Cached
  • a raid on suspected militants in the West Bank planned for Wednesday was called off by the country’s military because a soldier posted details of the operation on Facebook.
  • This news comes just days after the Pentagon announced a new social media policy that will permit American soldiers to use sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr to keep in touch with family and friends online
  • he Pentagon, like many employers, says that it wants to reserve the right to put limits on how soldiers use the Web while on the job.
  • César Albarrán Torres on 03 Mar 10
     
    Israeli soldier posts the details of an operation on Facebook, and the operation is called off. Ironic: the Internet, originally a military tool, causes trouble in the military. Like with potential victims for kidnapping in Mexico posting personal details online: should basic media literacy education be provided for the use of social media among groups with potential risks?
César Albarrán Torres

It's Time to Declare War Against Apple's Censorship - Apple - Gizmodo - 2 views

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shared by César Albarrán Torres on 10 Mar 10 - Cached
  • The App Store censorship horse may have been beaten to death, but mainstream German media—whose iPhone applications have been censored by Apple because of its content—are not surrendering. I'm glad. In fact, I hope they win this war.
  • The censorship problem is not only about the 5,000 titillating apps that fell down in flames after Apple's latest puritanic raid
  • Apple took down Stern's iPhone app without notice. Stern—a very large weekly news magazine—published a gallery of erotic photos as part of its editorial content.
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  • They learnt their lesson, since they haven't published any other material that may offend Apple's "moral police"
  • And it doesn't have to be about Apple or tits. There are plenty of applications that have been deemed blasphemous or offensive by Apple, and banned from publication. Would publications showing a caricature of Prophet Mohamed be taken down as well? That would get Phil Schiller plenty of complaint letters.
  • César Albarrán Torres on 10 Mar 10
     
    Apple has taken down two apps from German media, as they were considered offensive. This moves towards censorship could extend to a larger control of editorial content. Do media have to comply? 
Erin Riley

R.E.A.C.T. - 1 views

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shared by Erin Riley on 05 May 10 - Cached
  • Erin Riley on 05 May 10
     
    A really interesting piece from Matt Yglesias, who points out that a bunch of private corporations are advising on a policy agency, which could possibly be behind the Gizmodo raid. Fascinating to see the way public governance can be shaped by private corporations- and rather scary!
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