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Means of Control: Russia’s Attempt to Hive Off the Internet
Means of Control: Russia’s Attempt to Hive Off the Internet Such measures were always going to come on the heels, and heavily so, of the utopians. Where there is Internet Utopia, Dystopia follows with dedicated cynicism. Where there are untrammelled means of searching, there will be efforts to erect signposts, usually of a warning nature. […]
Russia Readies Own Web To Survive Global Internet Shutdown
Russia Readies Own Web To Survive Global Internet Shutdown Russian authorities and major telecom operators are preparing to disconnect the country from the world wide web as part of an exercise to prepare for future cyber attacks, Russian news agency RosBiznesKonsalting (RBK) reported last week. The purpose of the exercise is to develop a threat analysis and provide feedback to a proposed law […]
Want to Heal the Internet? Ban All Collection of User Data
Want to Heal the Internet? Ban All Collection of User Data The social media/search giants have mastered the dark arts of obfuscating how they’re reaping billions of dollars in profits from monetizing user data, and lobbying technologically naive politicos to leave their vast skimming operations untouched. I’ve been commenting on the cancerous disease that’s taken […]
In Africa, A New Tactic to Suppress Online Speech: Taxing Social Media
In Africa, A New Tactic to Suppress Online Speech: Taxing Social Media Think things are bad in the US and Europe when it comes to social media speech suppression? Check out, Africa. Will this be our future? Aware of the threat that social media poses to their power, repressive regimes in Africa have employed various […]
The World Google Controls and Surveillance Capitalism
The World Google Controls and Surveillance Capitalism I have been following the scandal of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act(also known as the Snoopers’ Charter) and Holland’s Sleepwet and their relationship to the encroaching government powers over private data, privacy, data collection, surveillance, and free speech for several years now. And very much related to these […]
How To Be Invisible On The Internet
How To Be Invisible On The Internet Everywhere you look, concerns are mounting about internet privacy. Although giving up your data was once an afterthought when gaining access to the newest internet services such as Facebook and Uber, as Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins notes, many people have had their perspective altered by various recent scandals, […]
Selco on the Riots in France, False News, and Manipulated Rage: “Every riot can be the start of SHTF”
Selco on the Riots in France, False News, and Manipulated Rage: “Every riot can be the start of SHTF” Editor’s note: The riots in France have been all over the news and we’ve watched many beautiful, historic places being destroyed. While the whole thing supposedly started in reaction to an increase in fuel prices, it […]
The Elite Are Creating An Authoritarian ‘Beast System’, And Those That Dissent Could Lose EVERYTHING
The Elite Are Creating An Authoritarian ‘Beast System’, And Those That Dissent Could Lose EVERYTHING They are transforming the Internet into the greatest tool of surveillance that humanity has ever seen, and if we stay on the road that we are currently on it is only a matter of time until our society becomes a […]
Yes, the EU’s New #CopyrightDirective is All About Filters
Yes, the EU’s New #CopyrightDirective is All About Filters When the EU started planning its new Copyright Directive (the “Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive”), a group of powerful entertainment industry lobbyists pushed a terrible idea: a mandate that all online platforms would have to create crowdsourced databases of “copyrighted materials” and then block […]
Can We Escape Control of The Wire?
Can We Escape Control of The Wire? “He’ll See Everything! He’ll See the Big Board!“ — Dr. Strangelove What is The Wire? Why is it so important? Who controls it? Answer those three questions and you can answer a number of problems plaguing our world today. The Wire is simply a metaphor for the transmission of information. […]
ACTA 2.0 – the end of freedom on the Internet
ACTA 2.0 – the end of freedom on the Internet Freedom of expression is a thorn in the side of EU technocrats. The new intellectual property law adopted by the European Parliament in September threatens our fundamental rights.1) Internet means freedom. Still. We can (still) freely retrieve content with our search engines. We can (still) […]
Here’s China’s massive plan to retool the web
Here’s China’s massive plan to retool the web The most ambitious project of mass control is the country’s “social credit” system. All Chinese citizens will receive a numerical score reflecting their “trustworthiness.” A”clap for Xi Jingping.” CNBC Screenshot The following is adapted from LikeWar by P. W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, a book by […]
Google Wants to Be Your Media Mommy
Google Wants to Be Your Media Mommy The company suggest it may have to protect us from the bad things that elected Trump and speech that makes us feel unsafe. Quietbits/ Shutterstock Google might soon add its terms of service to the First Amendment. A leakeddocument from the tech giant argues that because of a variety […]
The NEW Social Media: Alternatives to Facebook, YouTube,Twitter, and Other Big Tech Platforms
The NEW Social Media: Alternatives to Facebook, YouTube,Twitter, and Other Big Tech Platforms Lately, I’ve written a lot about the alternative media purge and how Big Tech social media platforms are attempting to control the narrative, the elections, and public perception through censorship and financial blacklisting. Lots of people are ready to leave websites like […]
Supreme Court Takes Case That Could End Internet Censorship, Expand First Amendment
Supreme Court Takes Case That Could End Internet Censorship, Expand First Amendment After the recent purge of over 800 independent media outlets on Facebook, the Supreme Court is now hearing a case that could have ramifications for any future attempts at similar purges. The United States Supreme Court has agreed to take a case that […]
