boxednoise

Archive for December, 2008

Today The New York Times has an article which explores the intersection of freedom and technology and which raises a fundamental question: are companies responsible to individuals or governments? It is being reported that as Apple introduced its 3G iPhone in Egypt it quietly disabled the handset’s global positioning system at the request of [...]

Fourteen years after the Rwandan genocide we are again reminded about the varied ways in which popular culture and technology can be utilized to spread hatred and violence with the sentencing of Simon Bikindi. As reported:
Presiding Judge Monica Weinberg de Roca said Tuesday that Simon Bikindi used a public address system to tell Hutus [...]