Twitter Abruptly Resigns From The “Free Speech Wing Of The Free Speech Party”

Happy belated #Jan25 from San Francisco: A new Twitter policy which goes into effect today allows the social network “to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country,” so that Twitter can further expand globally and “enter countries that have different ideas about the...

Lie All You Want, But Be Civil About It

I could not agree more with Greg Sargent’s take on Mark Halperin’s “indefinite suspension” from MSNBC for saying, on Morning Joe, that Pres. Obama is “kind of a dick.” I’m sorry, but this is crazy. Halperin’s crack was crude and dumb, but it doesn’t deserve...

The So-Called Liberal Media, Redux

This is the opening of a four-page New York Times article by James Glanz and John Markoff: The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or ...

Dear Anna Tarkov: Take Your Stale Cake and Shove It.

So. You’ve all no doubt heard about the $315m dollar acquisition of the Huffington Post by AOL (and, no doubt, already made the T&A CD-ROM coaster joke on Twitter). With $315m in your coffers, one would think that calls for Arianna and her new corporate overlords in Silicon Valley to finally...

Olbermann to Current TV?

My daily routine involves making a cup of espresso then taking my Border Collie Kira out for her morning business. It is in this pre-dawn quiet when I usually begin to ponder what I might write about here at CFLF. This morning I caught my mind wandering from thoughts of catching up on the podcast of The...

ACTION: Canadians SIGN TO STOP INTERNET METERING

If you are not already aware, the CRTC has ruled that it is ok for Canadian internet companies to begin charging putative fees for bandwidth usage. In an era when broadband usage has become integral to our daily lives this is a slap in the face of Canadians who already pay ridiculously high rates for...