Another dose of quicklinks:
- “Facebook spat led to 2 shooting deaths, sheriff says,” Associated Press, Feb. 8, 2012.
- “Online disappointment: Young Tunisian bloggers who promoted and recorded the events of the Arab Spring now find that, without a common enemy, the social media are just a cacophony of divided and conflicting views,” Smain Laacher and Cédric Terzi, LeMonde Diplomatique, Feb. 15, 2012.
- “Kazakhstan upgrades censorship to deep packet inspection,” Phobos, Tor project blog, Feb. 16th, 2012.
- “Juror Who Sent Defendant Facebook Friend Request and Joked About Being Booted by Judge Gets 3 Days,” Martha Neil, ABA Journal, Feb. 17, 2012.
- “Are Librarians Encouraging Public Libraries to Abide by COPPA?” Danah Boyd, Apophenia, Feb. 20, 2012.
- “Judge Slaps School for Blocking Gay Websites,” Joe Harris, Courthouse News Service, Feb. 21, 2012.
- “Denver family stranded after passport denied because of crease,” Hema Mullur, Fox 31 Denver, Feb. 21, 2012. Apparently it had damaged the mandatory RFID chip.
- Kyrgyzstan cuts off access to regional news site, NetProphet, Feb. 23, 2012.
- “The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom: Top-down, international regulation is antithetical to the Net, which has flourished under its current governance model,” Robert M. McDowell, Wall Street Journal, Feb. 21, 2012.
- “California’s struck down video game law saddles state with $2 Million bill,” Andrew Galbraith, Examiner.com, Feb. 21, 2012.
- “Syrian live streamer killed after being watched by millions,” Janko Roettgers, GigaOm, Feb. 21, 2012.
- “Judge: Jail or Facebook apology,” Kimball Perry, Cincinnati.com, Feb. 22, 2012.
- “There Is Nothing Constitutional About State-Mandated Transvaginal Ultrasounds,” Dissent, Pogo Was Right, Feb. 23, 2012.
- “Four year olds used to steal their parents’ data,” Davey Winder, PC Pro, Feb. 23, 2012. How malware writers are tricking young children into installing trojans via Flash games. Compare with “Parents need more privacy info about kids’ apps, feds say,” Amy Gahran, CNN, Feb. 21, 2012.
- “Satphones, Syria, and Surveillance,” Jillian C. York and Trevor Timm, EFF.org, Feb. 23, 2012. Discussing whether journalists were targeted for killing based on their use of satellite phones.
- “Facebook Murder-For-Hire Plot Lands Two People in Prison,” Kate Freeman, Mashable, Feb. 24, 2012.
