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PayPal to WikiLeaks: You're Cut Off

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 4, 2010 at 9:56 am PT

PayPal has joined a steadily growing list of companies that have terminated accounts used by WikiLeaks.

Microsoft to Newspaper Publishers: Seriously. We’re Not Bailing You Out.

Peter Kafka in Media on December 2, 2009 at 2:56 pm PT

Just in case newspaper publishers are still fantasizing about cashing big Bill Gates checks in exchange for bailing on Google, Microsoft wants to be clear: Don’t count on us. And today’s message was on the record.

Eve Ensler Calls for Rape-Free Cellphones

John Paczkowski in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 12:19 pm PT

On May 13, 2009, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing called “Confronting Rape and Other Forms of Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones.” Its purpose: to end the use of rape-as-a-weapon-of-war in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo–a place where 1,100 women a month are raped, in part as a consequence of the region’s coltan trade. Coltan, or columbite tantalite, is a mineral essential to the manufacture of a wide array of consumer electronics–cellphones, laptops. Among those who testified, Eve Ensler, playwright of “The Vagina Monologues” and the founder of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls–and a speaker at D7.

Cat Fight, Internet-Style: Perez Hilton Slaps the Face(book) of Not-BFF Mark Zuckerberg

Kara Swisher in News on February 17, 2009 at 3:36 am PT

In a BoomTown post last night noting that users should just get used to not having much control of their privacy and posted content online, in the wake of the controversy over Facebook’s Terms of Service changes, how could one leave out this gem of a digital diatribe on the issue by gossipmonger supreme, Perez Hilton? In an item yesterday, Hilton–who has gotten into a lot of copyright infringement legal trouble himself–asked his fans to boycott the fast-growing social-networking site anyway in one of my favorite pot-calling-kettle-black cyber-tussles yet.