From Jhad Watch:
The David Horowitz Freedom Center is calling upon all supporters of freedom of speech and of Israel to join in its protest against Facebook, the Internet social networking site. Facebook has allowed a group of hackers who openly support the terrorist group Hizballah to take over and destroy what was once the largest pro-Israel site on Facebook. In a blunt act of internet censorship, Facebook added insult to injury by disabling the account of that site’s creator, 14-year-old Todd Snider.

Snider established the Facebook group called “I Wonder How Quickly I Can Find 1,000,000 People Who Support Israel,” in July 2008. By February 2009 it was Facebook’s largest pro-Israel site, with over 180,000 members.

But on February 15, 2009, Snider’s Facebook group was hacked and destroyed by a pro-Hizballah group calling itself “Lebanese Shee’a Hackers.” The hackers completely erased the original site content and replaced it with threatening, obscenity-laced pro-jihad, anti-Israel propaganda datelined Bint Jbeil, South Lebanon: “DEAR ADMINS, DON’T WASTE MY AND YOUR TIME , LEAVE THIS GROUP ITS BETTER FOR BOTH THIS IS THE LAST TIME ILL EDIT YOU INFO , NEXT TIME…”

Facebook allowed the hackers to destroy Snider’s site, answering his repeated entreaties for help with blandly evasive form letters.

And now, after the appearance on March 6 of an article about the incident in FrontPageMagazine.com (“Facebook Jihad” by Robert Spencer), Facebook has taken the additional step of disabling Snider’s account altogether, capitulating to the jihadi hackers and accusing Snider himself of “misusing” Facebook’s “features.”

Facebook’s outrageous action is not only an assault on free speech and internet freedom and a breach of its own social networking protocols, but also appeasement of a group of hackers who have invaded Facebook’s space and who openly avow their support for the jihad terrorist group Hizballah.

We therefore urge all Facebook members who oppose Islamist terror and internet censorship to contact the site administrators through the Facebook contact form, and all others to join us in protesting against Facebook’s outrageous behavior by writing to abuse@facebook.com.

David Horowitz
Robert Spencer

I will be asking other prominent bloggers, writers, media figures, lovers of freedom, to join their names to ours in this, and will be adding them. And all bloggers who see this are welcome to post it on your own sites.

There are stories in the news today about thousands of people complaining to Ofcom about unfair practices in the "download a ringtone to your mobi" market. People are complaining that they downloaded a ringtone and then kept getting texts about the service, only realising when their bill came, or their credit ran out, that they had actually signed up to a subscription service.

What is Ofcom's answer to this? Teach schoolchildren to read the small print. Brilliant. I guess the 30,000 complaints Ofcom received about the Brand & Ross obscene phonecall fiasco means our children will be having lessons in how to not listen to Radio 2 on a Saturday night?

If you are too stupid to understand the words on the TV screen advertising the offer, then you should not be allowed to have a mobile phone.

I wonder why this market exists at all. You can buy a full song - the proper song - from iTunes for 79p. You can convert it to a ringtone in a number of ways, and then send it via Bluetooth or file copy to the phone, and set it as the ringtone. The software is out there, and it's free. Why do people pay £1.50 for a crappy MIDI version of 30 seconds of a song anyway? It's absurd.

...for a number of reasons.

Firstly, Apple's latest financial results show a massive increase in sales, cash and profitability.

Secondly, Apple is saying NO to Proposition 8 in California. Here's the blurb from Apple's Hot News page:
Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights — including the right to marry — should not be affected by their sexual orientation. Apple views this as a civil rights issue, rather than just a political issue, and is therefore speaking out publicly against Proposition 8.
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I agree with Apple on this. Why should someone's sexuality be a barrier to equal rights? If Apple wants to treat its own staff equally regardless of sexuality, then that's a good thing. Ethical companies like this are a great example of progressive humanity. The only reasons to support Prop 8 are religious ones, and religion should not be allowed to rules everyone's lives. Isn't there freedom FROM religion in America?

Yes, that's right... Because I ordered a t-shirt, I am being recommended a CD of monks chanting. Bl00dy marvellous.

Yep, Bill Gates is stepping down from his position at Microsoft, the company he founded all those years (and anti-trust lawsuits) back.

Bill who? Him -> bottom left.

You know those little plastic bags you get through your letterbox that you're supposed to put your unwanted clothes into and leave on your doorstep? Well, just a quick note to say that the majority of these are NOT charities. Most of them say that they are agents acting for a company. So, you put your clothes in the bag, they collect it, sort it and sell it on, then they give about TEN PERCENT to the actual charity. 90% goes to the company, not the charity. Just remember that when you get one of these bags through your door. I just put it in the recycling.

On a related note, the Nike+ run through Wembley Stadium will cost you £30, and a massive £3 goes to charity. Hmmm? 10%? What a rip-off! I give more than that to charity every month through my salary. It can't cost £27 per person to arrange a run, surely?!

Microsoft CEO's egg attack aka Smug fat b*stard who only got the job because he was once a roommate with Bill Gates gets egged

View the video here.

On Tuesday O2 announced it was cutting the price of the iPhone by more than a third — from £269 to £169 — and two weeks ago T-Mobile made an even more drastic cut, from €399 (£319) to €99.

An O2 spokeswoman said the price cut was "not a reactive move but part of a well thought out strategy of maximising the success of the iPhone in the UK."
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Yeah, and your sh!t don't stink either, does it?

Sainsbury's just sent me an email with a link to a competition in it to win 1 million Nectar points - a chav's paradise, I'm sure; however what do you think the answer to question one is:

1. To enter you’ll need to choose the answers you think are correct – one from each of the four questions. Complete the entry form below and submit your answer like this: 1a 2b 3c 4d in the answer section of the form?
     a) 50,000 points
     b) 40,000 points
     c) 30,000 points
     d) 25,000 points

Is it "daffodil"?

BBC to launch Arabic TV channel
From BBC News:
The BBC is set to begin broadcasts on its new Arabic language TV channel. The channel will be free to everyone in North Africa and the Middle East with a satellite or cable connection. It will distinguish itself from other state-funded channels by reporting "without fear or favour", BBC World Service director Nigel Chapman said.

This is the BBC's second attempt at an Arabic channel. The first closed in 1996 in the wake of an editorial dispute with its Saudi funders.

Some commentators question whether the BBC can succeed in a region where the UK is criticised for its involvement in Iran and Afghanistan.

Publicly funded
Starting at 1000 GMT on 11 March, BBC Arabic television will broadcast 12 hours a day, shifting to a 24-hour service later in 2008. The channel will broadcast 30-minute news bulletins every hour and two main 60-minute bulletins at 1800 GMT and 2000 GMT. It will also carry interviews and debates allowing viewers to submit comments.

The service is the BBC's first publicly-funded international TV service. It has an annual budget of US $50m (UK £25m). This comes partly from a UK government grant, and partly from BBC World Service funds freed up by the closure of radio services, mainly to Eastern Europe. It hopes to attract 20 million viewers per week by 2010 and 35 million users per week for all three Arabic services - TV, radio and on the web.
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The UK government has enough money to give a grant to the BBC to let it broadcast an Arabic TV station, but has no money to provide our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with adequate protection?!

This is seriously f**ked up.