When will corporate America learn that censorship attempts never end well for a company, particularly on social media? The insane crash at Saturday’s DRIVE4COPD 300 NASCAR race resulted in numerous injuries and some pretty amazing videos. One such video was flagged by NASCAR on YouTube and a DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) takedown request was sent out. YouTube initially complied, then put the video back up after manual review showed that copyright was not infringed. Now, the video is only going to get bigger than it already was. Thanks to a poor decision, NASCAR is going to shine a…

When a headline such as “Broad Powers Seen for Obama in Cyberstrikes” appears on the NY Times, my initial response is a skeptical one. I’ve long viewed the ways that the last two administrations have handled cybersecurity as failures to understand Golidilocks; they are too harsh when it isn’t warranted and lackadaisical in times of the greatest need. Many countries are growing more dangerous in the world of cyberterrorism with China leading the way. They are arguably more advanced than the United States in understanding the realities of cyberwarfare. To my pleasant surprise, the reported…

The announcement that the Washington Post Company was moving its Facebook app Social Reader off the social network and onto a standalone site is the latest example in a long string of failures by Facebook to keep a balance between what users want and what businesses and organizations want. This follows similar news from The Guardian a couple of days ago. As with most things that Facebook has tried since 2009 to do to grow its relevance outside its own closed garden, things started off really well and went south very quickly. Rewind to a year ago when Facebook first tied in its open graph technology…