A Peculiar Blog

Welcome back!There’s one of those all too common forwarded forwarded emails going around. The big thing that makes this one different is that what it’s talking about is TRUE!
The email tells that Obama has ordered that the US flag is NOT to be flown at the US Army’s base of operations in Haiti where [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I just read an article on montrealgazette.com that left me shaking my head in utter disbelief at the sheer stupidity of the situation.
It seems that a Vancouver businessman, Wayne Crookes, claims that writer Jon Newton defamed him by linking to reputation-smearing articles in a 2006 post about free speech on [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads According to an article on Scoop Independent News New Zealand has joined the ranks of nations with really aggressive, secret internet filters operated by the government.
Apparently two NZ ISPs, Maxnet and Watchdog, have already implemented the filter and three more, Telstra Clear, Telecom and Vodafone have stated that they will be [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads As the FCC continues to work on it’s Net Neutrality rules, the issue of loopholes was inevitable. Sooner or later it had to turn up. The EFF has filed comments with the FCC urging them to address this before it gets out of control because if it does, the [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads The Federal Communications Commission has recently proposed net neutrality rules to ensure that the Internet is free from blocking, censorship and discrimination by telecom companies Cable companies and large ISP’s.
In a nutshell, Net Neutrality means that Internet providers should treat all Internet traffic the same and forward data packets on a [...]