Facebook Sues Spammy Ad Network
Yesterday Facebook and Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna filed dual lawsuits against co-owners of Adscend Media, LLC, which Facebook Security claims is an ad network “that is alleged to develop and encourage others to spread spam through misleading and deceptive tactics, including the one known as clickjacking.”
Like a Gangly 8-Year-Old, the Mobile Web Needs to Grow Up
Well, here we are in Twentytwelve. Supposedly it’s the “year of the mobile” and all of our predictions about how we are going to use our mobile phones will finally come true.
[UPDATED] Is Twitter Helping Users Get Around Its New Censorship Rules?
Some of the messages Twitter is sending about its new policy on censoring tweets in certain countries seem ambiguous at best.
Ethiopia Sentences U.S. Blogger to Life in Prison
The Federal High Court in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa sentenced expatriate journalist and blogger Elias Kifle to life in prison yesterday. Kifle is the editor of the Washington D.C.-based blog, Ethiopian Review. He was sentenced in absentia.