Steve Mann is an amazing person. He is the father of wearable computers and is well worth reading about (Wikipedia for example).
He recently published a recount of an assault he suffered at the hands of some paranoid McDonalds staff. It’s strange, it’s terrible and it deserves to be spread. Obviously McD should be offering apologies and offering to repair his equipment.
Read the full story here: Physical assault by McDonald’s for wearing Digital Eye Glass it will also give you an idea of why Steve Mann is important to tech development in general and to Googles upcoming glasses in particular.
While this tragic and scary it is not really something I was going to blog about. I tweeted it… fine. I was going to post it on Facebook and got this:
Well ok that’s odd but I didn’t use the exact link, how careless of me. So I tried again.
Seriously? Is Facebook blocking Steve Mann’s blog? What is going on here?
I posted to several McDonalds Facebook pages with no trouble, but that was early in the day. Maintain the pressure.
Thanks John, then it seems like its overload rather than censorship
same here, posted it minutes ago….
Same here, they’re censoring posts about it.
Bet you dollars to donuts Faceboob is in a tight partnership with McDick’s.
Gotta love censorship. Wonder how much longer it will be until they’ve opened the flood gates and let through Anon and the like. Can’t imagine many of those folks would find censorship admirable…
Worked for me , was able to post
http://eyetap.blogspot.ca/2012/07/physical-assault-by-mcdonalds-for.html
All the more reason to get off that shitwreck of what was once something decent ya’ll call facebook. #gotzucked??
Douchebag sellout you are Mark.
Google+ > Facebook
Get with the program and GTFO facebook people.
I’ve seen this (facebook censorship?) before with a network marketing company that a friend of mine was part of. When you clicked their link that you found on facebook, you got a message saying that it is an untrusted site that may make your computer explode and permanently blind you in the process – to be only slightly hyperbolic. Mind you Steve Mann’s blog is far from a network marketing company’s website, so this isn’t the best of comparisons.