Techmeme: Is This Censorship? Facebook Stops You From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropriate’ Comments (Colleen Taylor/TechCrunch)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors

May 5, 2012, 5:05 PM

Top News

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Is This Censorship? Facebook Stops You From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropriate’ Comments — Today was just another Saturday morning in blog land when Robert Scoble, the well-known tech startup enthusiast, went to post a comment on a Facebook post written by Carnegie Mellon student …

More: ZDNet, Betabeat and Robert Scoble

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

They Shoot Yahoo CEOs, Don't They? But Not Without a Really Smoking Gun and a Much Stronger Board — Earlier today, Yahoo's persistent thorn, activist shareholder Dan Loeb of Third Point poison-penned another letter to the board of the Silicon Valley Internet company …

More: Tech and China, PC Magazine, the Econsultancy blog and CNET

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo's Thompson Asks Employees to “Stay Focused” — Except Not on Him — Of course, the Yahoo internal memo for the Yahoo internal crisis of the week! — Here is CEO Scott Thompson's email today to employees about the controversy around the fact that he does not have a computer science degree …

More: paidContent, Business Insider, Business Insider, Neowin, CNET and AllThingsD

Wall Street Journal:

Resume Trips Up New Yahoo Chief

David Brooks / New York Times:

The Campus Tsunami — Online education is not new. The University of Phoenix started its online degree program in 1989. Four million college students took at least one online class during the fall of 2007. — But, over the past few months, something has changed.

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @dan_preiss

Brian X. Chen / Bits:

AT&T Chief Regrets Offering Unlimited Data for iPhone — When Randall Stephenson, AT&T's chief executive, spoke about the state of the wireless industry at a conference this week, he shared some surprisingly frank comments about the iPhone. In particular, he said that he wished the company …

More: PhoneArena, The Next Web, Mashable!, MacNN, CNET, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Gotta Be Mobile, Dustin Curtis, Gizmodo, Engadget, BuzzFeed, iClarified, VentureBeat, SlashGear, MacRumors and parislemon

Tweets: @tristan and @eldon

Thanks:@mattlynley

Steve Ragan / SecurityWeek:

Official Fix for PHP Flaw Easily Bypassed, Researchers Say — On Wednesday, a remote code execution vulnerability in PHP was accidently exposed to the Web, prompting fears that it may be used to target vulnerable websites on a massive scale. The bug itself was traced back to 2004, and came to light during a recent CTF competition.

More: PC World, DE EINDBAZEN, The H Security, Dennis Fisher, The H Security, Softpedia News, InfoWorld and Slashdot

Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo, Alibaba Working on New, Taxable Deal — Yahoo Inc. has been working on a new deal to sell a portion of its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. back to the Asian company, and a transaction could be completed within weeks, people familiar with the matter said.

More: Business Insider, Reuters and Techonomy

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Emergency Flash update fixes security bug being used to hijack PCs — Adobe has released an emergency update for its Flash Player that fixes a security bug that's being actively exploited to hijack Windows computers running the ubiquitous software. — The “object confusion vulnerability” …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Facebook Buys Location-Based Discovery App Glancee — A little under one month after its acquisition of Instagram, Facebook has acquired Highlight competitor and ambient location app Glancee. — The social network has already shut down the developer's passive location app and all three co-founders …

More: VentureBeat, CNET, ZDNet, App Advice, WebProNews, Techie Buzz, PC World, Ubergizmo, Business Insider, Bloomberg, The Next Web, AllThingsD, Tecca, GigaOM, AllFacebook, Inside Facebook and Mashable!

Tweets: @scobleizer, @mathewi and @hunterwalk

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Hachi Combines LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter & Google Into One, Lets You Search All Your Connections At Once — OK, this is cool. A new networking utility called Hachi is taking some of the best functionality offered by LinkedIn (searching by name, company, title, etc. and seeing …

Thanks:@theparida

Shibani Mahtani / Wall Street Journal:

The Other Facebook Founder — Atop $2 Billion Fortune, Eduardo Saverin Gave Up Silicon Valley for Singapore's Tech, Society Scene — SINGAPORE—Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most famous chief executives in the world. His former business partner and friend, Eduardo Saverin, is big in Singapore.

More: Techi.com

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

White House Reiterates Plans To Veto CISPA In Its Current Form; Though For The Wrong Reasons — As I'm sure you remember, the House passed CISPA with a few amendments — some of which may have limited the possible abuses, while at the same time expanding the scope.

More: Geekosystem, GamePolitics blogs and Gizmodo. Thanks:@gnagesh

Sponsor Posts

Subquadratic:

Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.

Cloudflare:

Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.

Zoho:

Automate your scheduling workflows with Zoho Calendar — Your calendar can do more than schedule meetings Creating a calendar event takes only a few seconds. But scheduling is rarely just about creating the event.

IDrive:

Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.

Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Grit:

Inside the AI Startup Making Customer Support 65% Cheaper

Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.

Subscribe to Grit.

Lenny's Podcast:

90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord's product chief | Peter Sellis

Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.

Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.

Big Technology Podcast:

AI Doom Backlash Arrives, Anthropic & OpenAI IPO Outlook, Frontier Business Momentum Slows

The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.

Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.

Channels with Peter Kafka:

AI Wants to Shop for You. What Could Go Wrong?

Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.

Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.

Invest Like the Best:

Michael Moritz - Lessons From 40 Years of Investing and Writing

The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.

Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.

Sources:

Baseten's CEO on why every company will want to own its AI

Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.

Subscribe to Sources.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 5:05 PM ET, May 5, 2012.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.