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Japenese Government Accused of Censorship

By jeff on August 1st, 2011 No Comments

Many news organizations have accused the Japanese government of censoring Twitter and other social networks after the catastrophic tsunami hit the country a few months ago. After the tsunami occurred, a Japanese nuclear power plant was melting down and was extremely unstable for a long period of time. A few news organizations have reported that the Japanese government removed anything that mentioned the situation in a negative manner. The goal seems to be to keep the citizens’ feeling safe and prevent chaos to erupt if the truth was revealed.

So far the Japanese government has denied any and all allegations regarding the censorship of the situation. The only thing a government offical would say was that false information was removed to protect the residents of Fukushima.

While I am not sure what truly happened at the power plant, it certainly seems like the whole story was not being told. Even if the rumors are false, it definitely seems like the government was hiding something.

50 Cent Causes More Twitter Drama

By jeff on July 29th, 2011 No Comments

50 Cent is causing quite the stir on twitter yet again. After his song, “I’m on it” was recently leaked this week, 50 Cent announced he was going to leak Dr. Dre’s new song. The threat was mainly directed at Interscope records because the record company was apparently responsible for the leak.

Although, 50 Cent said he was going to release Dre’s song today, no song was ever leaked. In fact, 50 Cent switched his tone up completely and said he would never release Dre’s songs because, “he done nothing but help my career.”

Go figure, 50 Cent causing more twitter drama. Thankfully, he did not leak Dre’s song and escalate an already tense situation. It would be nice it 50 Cent would go back to comedy like he did last winter when he tweeted about hustling rich folk for money after snowstorms.

Regardless, you know it is never going to be a dull day if you are following 50 Cent. There may not be one person more entertaining on twitter then him.

Microsoft Apologies for Tweet

By jeff on July 25th, 2011 No Comments

Microsoft has official apologized for a controversial tweet posted by Microsoft this past weekend. After the news of the death of Amy Winehouse broke out, a PR account for Xbox posted the following tweet:

“Remember Amy Winehouse by downloading the ground-breaking “Back to Black” over at Zune.”

Many people felt the tweet was crass and offensive because it was posted just moments after the death was announced. Today, a spokesman for Microsoft stated that the tweet was not entirely “commercially motivated.” The spokesman further apologized for the tweet.

Whatever the case was, Microsoft definitely is going to take a temporary PR hit from this mistake. If there is one thing that a company should avoid it is blatantly attempting to make money off of a death of somebody. While other companies are currently capitalizing on the death of Amy Winehouse, Microsoft is going to take the brunt of the scrutiny for this PR debacle.