Internet Issues,Media Matters
13 September 2010 | 0 Comments
The one thing that is as reliable as the sun is a media driven moral panic popping up every few months. When I was a kid, it was everything from satanists to backmasking (playing music in reverse to reveal a message). In the current technological age, there is plenty of fodder for panic. The media [...]
Tagged in adult services section, attorney's general, craigslist, facebook, moral panic
Internet Issues
8 September 2010 | 0 Comments
State Attorney’s General have been hard at work over the last couple of years trying to get Craigslist to shut down their adult services section. Their work payed off yesterday when Craigslist elected to censor itself. Censor is the key word because Craigslist clearly believes this is censorship. The section was originally setup for consenting [...]
Tagged in attorney's general, censorship, craigslist, human trafficking, law enforcement, special interest groups
Media Matters
23 July 2010 | 0 Comments
We’ve had many recent examples of state Attorney’s General using their bully pulpit to sound off about whatever moral panic is big that day. Richard Blumenthal from Connecticut is just the latest. He joins New York’s Andrew Cuomo as one of the bigger gasbags in politics. His grandstanding moment du jour is the video game [...]
Tagged in andrew cuomo, attorney's general, bestbuy, grandstanding, rated m, rated r, richard blumenthal, video game industry, walmart