Piece in the FT commenting discussing online censorship in the wake of Iran and China’s seemingly successful censorship campaigns. Virtual worlds and MMORPGs are not discussed in the article and I wonder if they are currently outside the grasp of the online censor? Control, halt, delete By Joseph Menn, Richard Waters and Kathrin Hille Published: [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Control, halt, delete (but not virtual worlds?)
Posted in Uncategorized on June 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
State of Play VI Security Panel
Posted in News on June 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last Saturday (20th June) I hosted a Panel at State of Play VI on Security and Surveillance in virtual worlds. My thoughts on SoPVI and the panel are published here. http://sopvisecurityseminar.blogspot.com
Vigil for Iran in Second Life
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Second Life has been pretty quiet in amongst the barrage of other new media involvement in the Iranian opposition movement. However there is now a ‘support Iran’ group and a vigil is currently being held at the Al Andalus mosque. Slurl at this link.
Solid Oak and loss of IP to Green Dam
Posted in News on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Financial Times: US makes official complaint to China over internet censorship By Richard Waters and Joseph Menn in San Francisco,,Daniel Dombey in Washington and Kathrin Hille in Beijing Published: June 22 2009 03:00 | Last updated: June 22 2009 03:00 The US has complained officially to China over its strict new internet censorship rules [...]
Lulz takes on North Korea
Posted in Uncategorized on June 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As a one-time student of the cold war, pondering the potential causes of a global nuclear war was something of a Sunday afternoon past-time. The historic classic is of course the Cuban missile crisis but equally important were the series of near misses based on the faulty reading of radar early-warning systems when flocks of [...]
