January 4th, 2006
Dead Americans in Iraq + Microsoft censoring
As most of the American soldiers who are part of the current invasion of Iraq aren’t old enough to have been born during the American invasion of Vietnam, it’s clearly interesting to see this page where data from the US military has been assembled to show statistics of the number of dead Americans during the latest invasion of Iraq.
Of course, assembling a similar list displaying statistics over how many Iraqis who have died during the latest American invasion of Iraq would require much disk space, much bandwidth and result in heavy database loads.
Said site also displays this page, where pictures of many of the dead (mostly young) Americans are to be found. Don’t worry, the pictures display pictures of the faces of the deceased, while they were alive. Too bad all those coloured people aren’t as well-represented in, say, the American government.
Microsoft are taking their censorship to the same levels as the Chinese government, by shutting down a Chinese blogger who was critical against the Chinese government. From BoingBoing: “Note, his blog was TAKEN DOWN by MSN people. Not blocked by the Chinese government.” Read more about that by clicking the link.
January 14th, 2006 at 13:27
[...] Speaking of the USA, I did mention that Microsoft censored a Chinese blogger who was critical against the Chinese government, a while ago. I did not, however, know that Yahoo! was doing the same thing, until yesterday. Well, Yahoo! have just lost a court battle where they 1) wanted the right to sell nazi merch off their site and 2) really not care about laws. Interesting. [...]
January 26th, 2006 at 07:59
[...] No, there is no contest apart from Microsoft censoring Chinese as well, but I’d give anything to hear what the marketing people at Google are getting together to support this: [...]