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WordPress Rejects Inception-esque Russian Government Demand to Censor My Blog
Read more: WordPress Rejects Inception-esque Russian Government Demand to Censor My BlogIn case the hosting provider and (or) the Internet web-site owner fail to take these measures, the network address enabling to identify Internet web-sites containing the information prohibited for distribution in the Russian Federation will be decided to be entered into the Register and access will be limited.The information about entering the domain names, Internet…
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Round-Up 2019: Creating a Buzz
Read more: Round-Up 2019: Creating a BuzzHackers, backlinks, and Russian trolls. Revisiting my scoopiest stories of 2019 First up, a perennial thanks to zen master blogger Peter Heimlich and his wife Karen Shulman, BuzzFeed News Media Editor Craig Silverman, EIC Ben Smith, and online disinfo chronicler extraordinaire Jane Lytvynenko, Daily Beast EIC Noah Shachtman, reporters Lachlan Markay, Lachlan Cartwright, and Asawin…
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More on the Global Trade in Hacked Links
Read more: More on the Global Trade in Hacked Links“None of this surprises me. Every one of my accounts including my IRS account has been hacked,” said former mayor of Atlanta Shirley Franklin This is an addendum to a recent story I co-bylined with BuzzFeed News media editor Craig Silverman (click here to read). Our story — about online marketers who sell links from…
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Democracy Burning
Read more: Democracy BurningLabour voters reportedly binning and burning copies of pro-Tory newspapers in lead-up to UK general election Via Twitter: source source source source To see more click here and here.
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Techdirt Skewers Turkey
Read more: Techdirt Skewers TurkeyTechdirt publishes article based on my blog post re: Erdoğan’s takedown demand of “humiliating” news reports comparing him to Hitler source Via “Turkish President Demands Google Delist a Bunch of Websites Comparing Him to Hitler” by Tim Cushing, Techdirt, May 24, 2017: from the ‘Hitler-was-an-amateur-authoritarian,’-the-president-complained dept The world’s most thin-skinned “leader” is at it again. Perpetually-insulted…
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Abbey Road
Read more: Abbey RoadA mysterious place where the rules of the road don’t apply During our recent trip to London, my girlfriend and I paid a visit to Abbey Road Studios, where The Beatles made many of their best recordings. Just outside the studios is the crossing immortalised on the Abbey Road album cover. There we watched Beatles fans line…
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Ali, Bomaye!
Read more: Ali, Bomaye!Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016 Long before he was “The Greatest,” Muhammad Ali was a champion braggart. During his early career, he mercilessly ridiculed his opponents, labelling New Yorker Doug Jones “an ugly little man” and rechristening heavyweight champion Sonny “The Big Bear” Liston “the big ugly bear…after I beat him I’m going to donate him to the zoo.” Yet for all…
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Homeopathy on the NHS
Read more: Homeopathy on the NHSUK homeopathic hospitals: Atlanta, GA reporter and I ask oversight agency for a standard of care review source On April 25, my US blogging buddy Peter M. Heimlich and I co-signed and co-blogged a request for a review of “crystal therapy” and other dubious medical treatments being offered by a Liverpool hospital. On May 2,…
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Thought Field Therapy (and More!)
Read more: Thought Field Therapy (and More!)Why is UK’s Hoveton & Wroxham Medical Centre offering dubious “alternative” therapies? US reporter and I have asked UK oversight agency On April 25, my Atlanta, GA blogging buddy Peter M. Heimlich and I co-signed and co-blogged a request for a review of dubious medical treatments being offered by a Liverpool hospital. On May 2, we…
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