Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-04 Thread Morlock Elloi
This particular war was lost when the 'rebellious' bought into the consumer convenience paradigm and tried to confront the consummerism with its own tools. Suckers. If ease of use, simplicity and minimizing the burn of brain cycles are indeed paramount and defining parameters, then we shall live

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-04 Thread Nick White
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 07:51:46AM +0200, Patrice Riemens wrote: > As far as I can determine no groups or pages have been deleted, only > profiles, and all the profiles were not individual people, they were being > used by organisations. Not only is this stupid (as I’ve previously > explained here

ISOC-NY Event: Cyrus Farivar – The Internet of Elsewhere - NYU - Wed May 4

2011-05-04 Thread Joly MacFie
Our last International-themed event did draw some nettime folks, so I'll mention this one, too.. You may have seen the recent Freedom House report on Internet Freedom that cited Estonia as the most free Internet in the world, and Iran as among the least. As we know Korea has some of the fastest, w

For Oba- & Osa- ma (more balanced) news

2011-05-04 Thread Patrice Riemens
http://dawn.com/ As 'everybody' is flocking to 'trusted' MSM (Main Stream Media) sites to get news and background on the latest 'tyrannicide' (-Tjebbe vT) - eg, in my case, Guardian, BBC, Le Monde, etc. (out of Amsterdam, so no WSJ, which I read only on paper), I may recommend checking out Pakis

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-04 Thread Patrice Riemens
> Hey thanks for circulating this news, Merijn, > > Just to add that the groups targeted in the purge have now also set up a > petition site and a blog, and no, these are not on Facebook. (...) As I could find very little about this story on MSM (Main Stream Media), I tried a little bit harder

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-04 Thread tidepool
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/3/2011 10:16 AM, Nick wrote: > I'm tired of this web 20 shit. > Leaflets stapled to lamp-posts are far more resilient, regardless of inclement weather; Unfortunately, the reach just isn't there. The only viable solution, or en route, for 'reb

New Media Redux

2011-05-04 Thread Drew Hemment
Below is one of the articles written for a publication we are preparing for FutureEverything 2011. Media Art Redux There is a rich tradition of profound artistic enquiry engaging in new media technologies going back to the 1960s. Artists are coding, sculpting, visualising, sounding out new ki