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Paul Walsh is reporting that Wei Wenhua, a 41 year old construction company executive, was beaten to death recently because he had the gall to videotape them for his video blog.

The government had detained 24 officials and is investigating another 100 over the incident.

I’ve never understood China. And I hate their government. It’s great that they are investigating this, but it seems odd that they’re somehow investigating well over 100 people for this incident.

Walsh’s blog, Segala, has been banned in China as a result of his reporting this incident. So Walsh simply set it up on a proxy server. HA.

Like I said, I hate the Chinese government.

3 Comments » Posted on January 14th, 2008 by Jonathan Trenn

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I recently got to thinking about the article Chip Griffin wrote last month in MediaBistro. It was called “Throwing Out the Social Media Rulebook” and it created quite a stir. Some even got a little hostile.

I agree with all he wrote in that some in this open environment are creating certain rules suddenly come about that many say we must adhere to. Often by the most strident voices. But some of those same voices, while strident, make sense.

One of Chip’s points caught my eye. Actually they all did, but this one in particular:

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3 Comments » Posted on January 7th, 2008 by Jonathan Trenn

Filed under: Facebook, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech

The Syrian government, the same group of folks that regularly assassinate Lebanese politicians and journalists that criticize them, has decided in their infinite wisdom to ban Facebook.

Here’s another great blog entry straight out of Damascus.

I’m going to follow this as I can’t stand the Syrian government.

No Comments » Posted on November 20th, 2007 by Jonathan Trenn

Filed under: Facebook, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech, Hate Speech, SNS, Social Network Services, Social Networking, Social Networks

There was an article in the New York Times about a week ago titled, Brawl Over Islam on Facebook which talked about an “anti-islam” group called F#@*k Islam. The group had upwards of 750 members, in response to presence of this group a petition was started that gathered 58,000 signatures. This has ultimately led to the suspension of the founder of the F#@*k Islam group and the ultimate removal of the group.

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7 Comments » Posted on September 17th, 2007 by Saul Wainwright


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