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SEO NEWS: Twitter Supresses Tweeting!

February 1st, 2012

On the heels of Twitter announcing that they consent to country specific suppression of ideas expressed in content in order to spread their platform to new territory, Google has decided that suppression sounds like a good idea and jumped on the bandwagon behind them. Without so much as any notice to many users of their [...]

 
 

SEO NEWS: Twitter Censorship?

January 31st, 2012

A number of SEOs and SMMs participated in the January 28 blackout of Twitter, but for the most part, nobody else did or noticed anything different. The 28th was supposed to be the day that Twitter users were encouraged to go black on the network to protest Twitters agreement with several governments to censor or [...]

 
 

SEO NEWS: Bangladeshian Facebook Poster Jailed for Sedition

January 10th, 2012

SEOs from around the world paid very close attention to the news that a Bangladeshi university lecturer was ordered to be prosecuted by Bangladesh’s high court for sedition based on a post he made to Facebook. As the news is coming out, it seems the man in question wished for the death of the Prime [...]

 
 

Hackers – White Hat Cowboys?

December 27th, 2011

Strategic Forecasting Inc., Stratfor, which is a US based security think tank that counts branches of the US military among its client list was hacked, and unlike many companies that have been in their position before, Stratfor admits that they got jacked up really bad. The hacktivist group, Anonymous, claimed responsibility for the attack. By [...]

 
 

China and SEO Part Two

November 10th, 2011

After the Chinese government announced intent to crack down on microbloggers and the social media platforms that they use, SEOs from around the world immediately noticed that support has come in from Chinese technology companies. The fairytale story would be that the large corporations came to the aide of the masses that make their platforms [...]