Proving that there are stupid people in government everywhere..

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I present you with Google being banned in China (link via Dane) and the Greeks banning all gaming, apparently they are unable to tell the difference between electronic illegal gambling and video games, so in their infinite wisdom they’ve decided to ban all electronic games. (link via Online Blog)

More wonderful examples of how world governments are afraid of how we’ll use technology and are trying to control it.

Share with your friends!
LinkedInBlueskyMastodonThreadsRedditBuffer

Similar Posts

  • How I spent my weekend

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    I spent a whole lot of my weekend setting up my new laptop. After some headaches involved with trying to order a system online, that turned out to not be in stock, despite the fact that the site said it was, and I was charged for it, I cancelled that order and went down to…

  • MS bashing in the media?

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    From Online Blog comes an interesting look at this article on Micrososft’s Windows profit margins. It seems that MS pulls off an 86% profit margin on all of it’s sales of Windows and some consumer groups are outraged. To quote: Cooper said the Microsoft profit margin had been sustained through illegal use of Microsoft’s monopoly…

  • Morning news

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Security holes found in PHP scripting language -Gee and it’s not even a Microsoft scripting language? Just goes to show, totally secure, bug-free stuff is not that easy! Britney Worm warning -It’s not very widespread now, but I’m willing to bet the same idiots who were dying to get a pic of Anna are the…

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)