When Yahoo's billion dollar Tumblr pickup was nothing more than coquettish tech talk, we wondered if a new owner would start enforcing the site's own rules. You know, shutting down pages about underaged girls and glorified anorexia. It looks like it's starting. Slowly.

If Quora's presumptuous plan to "grow the world's knowledge" doesn't work out, perhaps it can pivot into a Silicon Valley burn book. This insider spat between blogger-turned-investor Ben Parr and Napster founder John Fanning is a good start. Things got so litigious, a Quora admin had to put on his Tina Fey bossy pants…

Codeacademy is a pretty neat idea: learning the basics of a programming language shouldn't be so intimidating, so let's break it down into friendly, digestible online segments. Cool. What's not so cool is using the threat of digital totalitarianism as a marketing ploy.

Edward Snowden is doing a live Q&A with the Guardian, and one of the most important questions has already hit: what's up with all of the very similar dismissals of "direct access" coming from Facebook, Apple, and the rest? Snowden's not buying it.

Mostly because you weren't invited, but also because there's a muzzled guard dog standing outside of it like a checkpoint on the Berlin Wall.