Phone company Telus’s ‘friendly future’ apparently includes censorship, on their own networks and on the networks unfortunately enough to use them as an uplink.

Phone company Telus’s ‘friendly future’ apparently includes censorship, on their own networks and on the networks unfortunately enough to use them as an uplink. Who the hell would want to deal with a communications company so keen on not letting the message out?

Apparently Yahoo has no policy preventing the disclosure of information to repressive governments for use in political crimes trials.

Apparently Yahoo has no policy preventing the disclosure of information to repressive governments for use in political crimes trials. There’s another firm that’ll go to no length to protect its users against persecution and possibly death. More background on the case here. Fuck Yahoo. I will no longer use their services, and would urge anyone else sick of seeing duplicity in the PRC’s political persecutions not to use Yahoo services either.

Alberta Premier Ralph Klein calls same-sex marriage legalization ‘a sad day’.

Alberta Premier Ralph Klein calls same-sex marriage legalization ‘a sad day’. That’s quite all right. A number of others have, for a while, take to referring to Mr. Klein as ‘a drunk’, based on his long-standing history of alcohol abuse and erratic behaviour while on the sauce.