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The ideal way to legalize marijuana is for the federal government to end its ban, while allowing each state to regulate and tax marijuana as it sees fit. This would circumvent the complicated constitutional issues that will arise if the California initiative passes, as federal law would still prohibit marijuana...
Facebook has been on the radar of government officials who believe that it has been used to facilitate the abduction of the relatives of powerful businessmen and politicians, with kidnappers allegedly using the social-networking site to discover the identities of a high-profile person's family members. Meanwhile, authorities...
Critics of China's censorship regime have often predicted that information will inevitably circumvent efforts to restrict it. But so far China has managed, through a variety of means, to restrict the discussion of topics the government finds objectionable, such as independence drives in the regions of Tibet and Xinjiang...
In 2006 Jason Ng, a blogger from Guangdong province in south China, began writing about how to circumvent censorship in China after he read about the government's block on Wikipedia, the user-generated online encyclopedia. He started by posting technical tips and essays on various bulletin boards and his...
Since then, Ng says, he has received phone calls and e-mails from government officials ordering him to remove articles that teach users how to circumvent Web restrictions, or else his website would be shut down by authorities. This has left him with little choice, he says, but to switch...