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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this kind of censorship. Sympathetic observers outside Iran have set up "proxies," servers that relay Twitter content into Iran through network addresses that haven't been blocked yet. When the Iranian authorities discover such a proxy, they block it too. It's an arms race crossed with whack-a-mole. Protesters are also organizing denial-of-service attacks against government websites - coordinated efforts to shut down their servers by flooding them with traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Protests: Twitter, the Medium of the Movement | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

...large syringe spewing some sort of euthanizing liquid that zaps evil looking pigs to death in one shot. They oink, turn from green to pink and croak. It's simple and addictive in the way that all great Internet time sucks can be. Once you perfect the whack-a-mole style distraction, you can link to the game on your blog or to the social network of your choosing. (Read "China and Swine Flu: Are Mexicans Being Singled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Swinefighter' to the Rescue | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

...grown and grown." The shutdown of Napster in 2001 didn't prevent Kazaa becoming even larger; and Kazaa's subsequent demise has hardly hindered the Pirate Bay. By the time courts catch up with unlawful services, user momentum already lies elsewhere. "It's a case of whack a mole," says Mulligan. "Every time they hit one, another pops up. That's not going to change." (See the 25 best blogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pirate Bay Guilty of Breaching Copyrights | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...litany of charges, including "improvised explosive device (IED) attacks that killed Iraqi security forces, leading an IED cell ... ties to al-Qaeda in Iraq, and collusion with the terrorist network Jaysh al-Islami," according to a Multi-National Force-Iraq statement, clearly suggesting that Mashhadani was an al-Qaeda mole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al-Qaeda Infiltrating Pro-U.S. Militias in Iraq, Sources Say | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...only declined 6% (and the use of other drugs actually increased). Drug trends tend to wax and wane, and a dip in the use of one type of drug might lead to a rise in another, causing officials to play a never ending game of narcotic whack-a-mole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War on Drugs | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

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