Monthly Archives: January 2010

Google taking on China

We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having [...]

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Inspired by Freire

Being inspired (and distracted) by Paulo Freire. “No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors” “This concept is well suited to the purposes of the oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the [...]

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Making the rules help the bad guy

I found this and thought it summed up the Western world’s response to terrorism as best as I can understand it. For the uninitiated LeBron James is probably the best basketball player in the world at the moment (other’s might tell you it’s Kobe Bryant, but they’re wrong). “I’m quite sure I could beat LeBron [...]

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