- Your tax dollars at work: Wikipedia placed a 10-day ban on changes to the collaborative encyclopedia from a certain IP address inside the U.S. Capitol after discovering that bizarre and embarrassing edits were being made from that address (one such edit claimed that former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is an alien lizard). Other IP addresses associated with the U.S. Congress were not affected.
- Grounded: A Minnesota man was asked to leave a Southwest Airlines flight from Denver to Minneapolis on July 20 until he deleted a tweet that was critical of a gate agent. Eventually he and his two children were permitted to board the flight.
- Mass amnesia: Pursuant to the European Court of Justice’s May ruling that users in the EC have the “right to be forgotten” on the Internet, Google has received requests to block search results for 328,000 websites from 91,000 individuals. Google reports that, to date, it has granted more than 50 percent of these requests.
