CENSORED: China Blocks Foursquare; Too Many People Checking Into Tian’anmen ☀

China blacks out Foursquare in yet another blow to freedom on the internet. techblog86 reports:

Foursquare. Dead to China beginning in the afternoon hours of June 4, 2010. (Confirmed here in Beijing.) You’ll have to reroute to get in…

I’d think a major player in the world economy, like China, could implement methods [other than censorship] for harnessing their citizens’ data. Methods that could balance the country’s national security while allowing it’s people unfettered access to the web.

The amount of data that could be garnered by the Chinese government is potentially enormous.

If China really wanted a thorough snapshot on each of their citizens, don’t you think they’d collect more data rather than restrict it.

New York Times Issues Facebook Gag Order – Ethical Dilemma With Social Networking

TechMiso.comWhat could be perceived as a gag order, the New York Times laid out its knee-jerk ground rules in an effort to neutralize its staffers activity on social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. PoynterOnline reported on a policy letter sent in from NY Times assistant managing editor, Craig Whitney.

Whitney writes:

If you have or are getting a Facebook page, leave blank the section that asks about your political views, in accordance with the Ethical Journalism admonition to do nothing that might cast doubt on your or The Times’s political impartiality in reporting the news.

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