I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

Some 700 hackers looking to show off their talents have piled into an upstart Web site called RankMyHack.com in the last month. Emerging from the shadowy underground, they have submitted evidence of more than 1,200 Web site hacks, eager to have their feats measured against those of their peers.

On Tuesday, we reported that Argentina’s National Telecommunications Commission (CNC) had issued a directive to local ISPs to block two websites—leakymails.com and leakymails.blogspot.com—in response to an order from a federal judge. Today, on Google’s Latin America blog (in Spanish), Senior Policy Counsel Pedro Less Andrade writes that Google records indicate that some service providers in Argentina are blocking access to the IP address 216.239.32.2, which is linked to more than one million blogs hosted on Google’s Blogger service.

Google wants to force people to use their real names online, say many Google detractors. Yet, it’s precisely for defending three bloggers’ right to anonymity that its Brazilian subsidiary was fined this Thursday by a local judge. Let’s have a look at what happened.

“Si on commence à tirer sur le fil rouge des algorithmes, on se rend compte qu’ils déterminent de plus en plus de choses dans nos vies. Pas seulement les échanges commerciaux ou le niveau de remboursement de nos pensions de retraite… Ils déterminent également la valeur de l’immobilier, ce qu’on regarde à la télé, le prix des produits, ce que nous mangeons, comment nous circulons, ce qui va nous arriver, la manière dont sont conçues les chansons, ce que nous allons voir au cinéma, ce que nous lisons, le titre des livres que nous lisons, ce que nous pensons de ce que nous lisons…” Tant et si bien que dresser l’Atlas des algorithmes contemporains, de tous les domaines où ils ont une influence, est déjà devenu quasiment impossible.