http://norayounis.com/2008/11/04/308
The impressive flickr account of blogger and friend Hossam el-Hamalawy
is facing censorship by flickr themselves! First they disabled
pro-palestine photos he had taken in Ireland, then they started
searching their old drawers for reasons to un-list his account from
public search.
decentralization-stories
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009100.html
The most credible voice in the Ossetian war, he tells us, was a
Georgian blogger who’d fled Abkhazia for Russia. His LiveJournal
account was highly critical both of Moscow and of Sakashvili, and was
widely read in the Russian blogosphere. But a flurry of denial of
service attacks, launched by a set of zombie computers likely
controlled by Russian hackers, disabled LiveJournal for an hour, and
forced the owners of LiveJournal to ask the blogger to leave the
service so that future attacks wouldn’t take down the platform. He
moved to Wordpress, but had the same experience. If governments are
able to unleash attacks that can disable whole platforms, it’s likely
that they’ll successfully silence many online voices.
decentralization-stories
http://elphabawest.blogspot.com/2008/12/microsoft-live-has-n...
Microsoft Live blogging used to support anonymous commenting, but they
were tracking the commenters’ identity --- and when they turned off
anonymous commenting, all the previously-anonymous comments became
non-anonymous. decentralization-stories
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617
Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse
(AOL deleted a lot of people's web pages with scant 4 weeks' warning)
decentralization-stories
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/googles-lack-transpera...
Earlier this month, Google removed Grooveshark’s popular app from the Android Market for violation of the Android terms of service, later informing Grooveshark that the removal was related to a “complaint from the RIAA" but nevertheless refusing to provide an actual legal or policy basis for the takedown.
Yes. Many of these are undemocratic, but others are merely unintentional problems of reliability induced by a single point of failure.
http://www.delicious.com/kragen/decentralization-stories has a few dozen items up through 2008.
http://beckyzoole.livejournal.com/395310.html livejournal users want more control of livejournal. decentralization-stories
omg decentralization-stories: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/when-google-owns-you/ http://www.chrisbrogan.com/google-gets-back-to-nick/
http://valleywag.com/5053704/kentucky-judge-moves-to-seize-g... more decentralization-stories: caribbeangold.com, etc., censored
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341378 more decentralization-stories: legal intimidation takes a site offline
http://blog.wikiring.com/Blog/BlogEntry28 decentralization-stories: the TWiki Takeover
http://norayounis.com/2008/11/04/308 The impressive flickr account of blogger and friend Hossam el-Hamalawy is facing censorship by flickr themselves! First they disabled pro-palestine photos he had taken in Ireland, then they started searching their old drawers for reasons to un-list his account from public search. decentralization-stories
http://arabist.net/arabawy/2008/11/04/flick-censors-my-accou... more details. ugly. decentralization-stories
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/05/support-the-arabist... global voices picks it up.
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009100.html The most credible voice in the Ossetian war, he tells us, was a Georgian blogger who’d fled Abkhazia for Russia. His LiveJournal account was highly critical both of Moscow and of Sakashvili, and was widely read in the Russian blogosphere. But a flurry of denial of service attacks, launched by a set of zombie computers likely controlled by Russian hackers, disabled LiveJournal for an hour, and forced the owners of LiveJournal to ask the blogger to leave the service so that future attacks wouldn’t take down the platform. He moved to Wordpress, but had the same experience. If governments are able to unleash attacks that can disable whole platforms, it’s likely that they’ll successfully silence many online voices. decentralization-stories
http://elphabawest.blogspot.com/2008/12/microsoft-live-has-n... Microsoft Live blogging used to support anonymous commenting, but they were tracking the commenters’ identity --- and when they turned off anonymous commenting, all the previously-anonymous comments became non-anonymous. decentralization-stories
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617 Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse (AOL deleted a lot of people's web pages with scant 4 weeks' warning) decentralization-stories
http://torrentfreak.com/facebook-blocks-all-pirate-bay-links... decentralization-stories about one social site blocking all links to another.
http://ejohn.org/blog/google-groups-is-dead/ more decentralization-stories: resig is moving public discussion of jQuery off Google Groups
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/02/cory-doctor... anti. decentralization-stories.
http://www.publicschoolreview.com/articles/198 The Lower Merion School District used laptops with webcams to spy on children in their homes. decentralization-stories
http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/1/25/lets-welcome-our-n... decentralization-stories about cloud computing
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/04/20/on-adobe-flash-c... decentralization-stories about how Adobe doesn’t want to do anything for the iPhone
http://andreyf.tumblr.com/post/538652366/info-roundup-mcafee... decentralization-stories about virus scanning and “bad code” identification http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1282791 discussion thereof
http://my.opera.com/unite/blog/2009/07/14/fixing-proxy-probl... decentralization-stories: Opera Unite was down for days because it depended on centralized proxies
http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2647-itunes-user-has-account-h... decentralization-stories: a guy’s account got closed after someone broke into it, and he lost all of his previous six years of iTunes purchases.
http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/03/26/facebook-account-disable... decentralization-stories http://blogs.gnome.org/rodrigo/2010/03/26/facebook-account-d... decentralization-stories
http://blog.ericgoldman.org/personal/archives/2010/09/scribd... decentralization-stories: scribd changes its terms
http://mobilized.allthingsd.com/20110228/t-mobile-killing-of... decentralization-stories: the hiptop/sidekick will be bricked.
http://e1ven.com/2011/04/14/why-no-company-that-values-their... decentralization-stories. in this case google just broke some things, that’s all.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/googles-lack-transpera... Earlier this month, Google removed Grooveshark’s popular app from the Android Market for violation of the Android terms of service, later informing Grooveshark that the removal was related to a “complaint from the RIAA" but nevertheless refusing to provide an actual legal or policy basis for the takedown.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/why-fa... Why Facebook and Google's Concept of 'Real Names' Is Revolutionary - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic A bit of a #decentralization-stories item, maybe.