Politics News
Thousands of Blogs Shut Down Due To Terror Threat
29th July 2010
Blogetery.com has recently been shut down, bringing down thousands of blogs, following a terror threat being posted on one of the blogs hoste on the domain. More »
Vatican Google Bombed
23rd July 2010
It has been reported that over the last weekend, the Vatican had been Google Bombed. More »
Google Street View Issue Not Gone Away
14th July 2010
About 2 months ago, Google had admitted that their Street View cars had “mistakenly” collected information transmitted over unencrypted wi-fi networks. More »
Lady Gaga First With 10 Million Facebook Fans
7th July 2010
Lady Gaga is the first living person to reach the landmark of having 10 million fans on Facebook. As of the 5th of July 2010, she had 10,673,476 fans on Facebook, while the former leader, Barack Obama had 9,824,885 fans at that time.
Labour MP Urges Voters To Commit Click Fraud
12th April 2010
With the general elections in the U.K. to be held shortly, all the major political parties are making all efforts to reach out to online audiences. Some (perhaps all) politicians, though, don’t seem to mind playing dirty in an attempt to thwart their opponents’ efforts. More »
Are Google Employees Responsible For YouTube Content?
25th February 2010
Three executives of Google have been convicted by a court in Milan, Italy over the screening of a video in 2006. The video in question was of an autistic teenager being bullied. More »
Should Wikipedia Introduce Flagged Revisions?
26th January 2009
The recent appearance of false reports on Wikipedia about the deaths of U.S. senators Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd during the inaugural lunch has started a serious debate on whether or not edits by unknown users should be edited by trusted editors. More »
China Spying And Censoring Skype Conversations
8th October 2008
A report from Canadian researchers affiliated to the University of Toronto have revealed that China has been blocking messages that contain certain ‘sensitive words’. More »
U.S. Presidential Candidates Campaign Online
25th August 2008
The current U.S. Presidential hopefuls are certainly moving with the times, and in the process they are changing the way that election campaigns have been held over the years. More »
China Manipulates Politics On Google News, YouTube And Yahoo!
18th March 2008
On Saturday 16th March 2008, the government of China blocked access to YouTube in order to prevent videos of the unrest in Tibet from being viewed by Internet users in mainland China. YouTube showed several clippings of the pro-Tibetan-sovereignty protests, taking place in Lhasa. More »
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