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Social Media and Israel: Censorship of the Truth
Social Media and Israel: Censorship of the Truth Photo by Susan Ruggles | CC BY 2.0 The growing desperation of Israel to avoid public knowledge of its many war crimes and crimes against humanity knows no bounds. The country that, with United States support, proclaims itself the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’, has, like […]
Facebook Wants To Spy On You Via Hidden Inaudible TV Ad Messages
Facebook Wants To Spy On You Via Hidden Inaudible TV Ad Messages Social media giant Facebook continues to ramp up the creepy factor. According to a recently filed patent, Facebook wants to spy on you by hiding inaudible messages in TV ads. Facebook has filed a patent for a system that hides audio clips in […]
The Murder of Julian Assange
The Murder of Julian Assange It was a fool’s errand. On the day Donald Trump was elected his supporters asked him to pardon the founder and frontman of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. They flooded social media demanding Assange be allowed to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London without arrest and extradition to the United States. Stone silence […]
Big Brother Facebook: Drawing Down the Iron Curtain on Yankeedom
Big Brother Facebook: Drawing Down the Iron Curtain on Yankeedom Leading a double life When my partner, Barbara, first opened an account on Facebook, she used it in a way that most people in Yankeedom use it. Her network was an eclectic assortment of family, current and former workmates, new and old friends, neighbors and […]
Preach Less, Live Your Values More
Preach Less, Live Your Values More The employees who are resigning in protest, several of whom discussed their decision to leave with Gizmodo, say that executives have become less transparent with their workforce about controversial business decisions and seem less interested in listening to workers’ objections than they once did. In the case of Maven, […]
Robert Macfarlane: “the metaphors we use deliver us hope, or they foreclose possibility”
Robert Macfarlane: “the metaphors we use deliver us hope, or they foreclose possibility” They say you should never meet your heroes. They’re wrong. I recently had the huge honour of spending almost an hour in conversation with Robert MacFarlane, author of 9 books including ‘Mountains of the Mind’, ‘The Old Ways’, ‘Landmarks’ and, most recently, […]
Facebook & Atlantic Council unite: Now social media giant serves NATO’s agenda
Facebook & Atlantic Council unite: Now social media giant serves NATO’s agenda © NurPhoto / Getty Images Facebook has engaged a think tank funded by weapons manufacturers, branches of the US military and Middle-Eastern monarchies to safeguard the democratic process. It’s akin to hiring arsonists to run the fire brigade. If Facebook truly wanted to “protect […]
Is Social Media Destroying Humanity on Purpose?
Is Social Media Destroying Humanity on Purpose? You may not be on social media yourself, but chances are your friends and family are. Some of us are on there for work purposes and some so we can keep in touch with loved ones who live far away. There are valid reasons we have accounts on […]
Social Media, Not Religion, The Opium Of The People
Social Media, Not Religion, The Opium Of The People Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. – Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique […]
Your Privacy Is Over
Your Privacy Is Over A plausible case for a future with no privacy, and why it should concern you Three Things Should Frighten You In China, the government is using data to control the country’s population. By building a firewall around China and then replacing the blocked global tech services with locally owned versions it can […]
How Facebook, Etc., Suppress Key Truths
How Facebook, Etc., Suppress Key Truths On April 23rd, the great independent investigative journalist, Craig Murray — a former British diplomat — headlined at his blog, “Condemned By Their Own Words”, and he posted there the translated-to-English transcript (excerpted below) to this Israeli radio Hebrew broadcast on April 21st, in which an Israeli Brigadier-General, named Fogel, explained why […]
How the Internet Turned Bad
How the Internet Turned Bad The 1990s Vision Failed It has been 25 years since I formed my first impressions of the Internet. I thought that it would shift the balance of power away from large organizations. I thought that individuals and smaller entities would gain more autonomy. What we see today is not what I hoped […]
Escape the Echo Chamber
Escape the Echo Chamber First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images Something has gone wrong with the flow of information. It’s not just that different people are drawing subtly different conclusions from the same evidence. It seems like different […]
Facebook and the Future of Online Privacy
Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Imag Facebook and the Future of Online Privacy The EU has taken the lead in responding to abuse by the likes of Facebook, thanks to its new privacy standards and proposed greater taxation of peddlers of online personal data. Yet more is needed and feasible. NEW YORK – Chris Hughes, a co-founder […]
