2 posts and columns on beating

China to YouTube: YouBlocked

in News on March 24, 2009 at 12:09 pm PT

China’s access to YouTube, which has been intermittent at best, ceased entirely late Monday, apparently choked off by the country’s legendary Internet filtering system. There’s no formal explanation yet for the block, though it may be in response to a seven-minute video posted to YouTube last week showing Chinese soldiers brutally beating Tibetans last March after the riots in Lhasa. China, after all, isn’t renowned for its tolerance of free expression or dissident speech.
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Social Networks' Bad PR Week: Girl Gangs and Snotty Teens

in News on April 14, 2008 at 3:25 am PT

Ah, nothing like crazy teenagers to ruin a social-networking site’s week! Of course, a lot of the attention last week was aimed at MySpace, which had only a very peripheral role in the appalling story of a gang of teen harpies from Florida who viciously laid into another and videotaped it. The unfortunate girl–whom the [...]