Voting Geek and Mapping Censorship
The mayoral election earlier this month in San Francisco was abysmal. Our conservative-leaning incumbent Gavin Newsom ran virtually unopposed. Still, I sought out the one candidate I think could turn this city around. That’s why I voted for Josh Wolf, a young blogger who was imprisoned for not handing information over to the police related to story he’d posted online. Find out more about what Josh Wolf represents for the future of politics.
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve also been playing with a new map mashup tool that shows which countries are censoring social networking sites such as YouTube or MySpace. The tool is called the Access Denied Map, and you’ll be surprised to see who is doing the blocking and why.
November 25th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
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November 25th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
I can understand why the military would block social networking sites, and why corporations would block social networking sites, and even why educational institutions tending minors would block social networking sites, but why are universities doing that? In fact, what universities do you know that are blocking social networking sites (or is it that they are blocking peer to peer technology)?