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Platforms Are Making You Vulnerable
Platforms Are Making You Vulnerable Trouble at Google and Facebook shows how susceptible we are to losing control of our data — by accident or design It’s been over a week since Facebook announced that, thanks to a coding vulnerability, access tokens for at least 50 million* accounts were stolen. Access tokens are important. As […]
Facebook Meddles in the 2018 Midterm Elections
Facebook Meddles in the 2018 Midterm Elections Photo Source Mike Mozart | CC BY 2.0 On October 11, Facebook announced the removal of 559 pages and 251 accounts from its service, accusing the account holders of “spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior.” The purged users stand accused of posting “massive amounts of content … to drive […]
‘Land of censorship & home of the fake’: Alternative voices on Facebook and Twitter’s crackdown
‘Land of censorship & home of the fake’: Alternative voices on Facebook and Twitter’s crackdown Cardboard cutouts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seen at a protest in Washington DC © Reuters / Aaron P. Bernstein Alternative voices online are incensed after Facebook and Twitter closed down hundreds of political media pages ahead of November’s crucial […]
Internet Censorship Just Took An Unprecedented Leap Forward, And Hardly Anyone Noticed
Internet Censorship Just Took An Unprecedented Leap Forward, And Hardly Anyone Noticed While most indie media was focused on debating the way people talk about Kanye West and the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an unprecedented escalation in internet censorship took place which threatens everything we all care about. It received frighteningly little attention. After […]
Google vs. Trump: “The Good Censor” On Collision Course With The Patriot President
Google vs. Trump: “The Good Censor” On Collision Course With The Patriot President The leaked internal Google briefing “The Good Censor” [PDF] has received suspiciously little attention from the Main Stream Media, but it represents the crassest statement yet of the Tech oligopolies’ intention to impose Silicon Valley Political Correctness on the U.S. As American […]
Global Internet Could Crash In Next 48 Hours – “Outage Across The World”
Global Internet Could Crash In Next 48 Hours – “Outage Across The World” The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the registry of domain names and IP addresses, is planning to perform a Root Zone Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) KSKS rollover on Thursday. “Rolling the KSK means generating new cryptographic public […]
What Will Europe’s Internet Look Like After Passage Of Orwellian Directive?
What Will Europe’s Internet Look Like After Passage Of Orwellian Directive? Last month, members of the EU Parliament voted to advance a controversial copyright directive that contains provisions forcing tech giants to install content filters, while also setting in place a potential tax on hyperlinking. The bill, known as Article 13, would filter everything anyone […]
How To Make A Solid, Customized News Stream That Isn’t Manipulated By Silicon Valley
How To Make A Solid, Customized News Stream That Isn’t Manipulated By Silicon Valley It can be hard to find a supply of information about what’s going on in the world that isn’t being manipulated by power. You find a news outlet you like, then you start to notice them hiring reporters who regurgitate the establishment […]
Anti-Defamation League, Facebook, Google & Youtube Appoint Themselves As Official Internet Censor
Anti-Defamation League, Facebook, Google & Youtube Appoint Themselves As Official Internet Censor If you are reading this, that means that articles that speak against the activities of the Anti-Defamation League are not being automatically scrubbed from the internet. Yet. In a foreboding sign that the free expression of opinion on the internet is too much of a threat to […]
EU: Politicizing the Internet
EU: Politicizing the Internet Even before such EU-wide legislation, similar ostensible “anti-terror legislation” in France, for example, is being used as a political tool against political opponents and to limit unwanted free speech. In France, simply spreading information about ISIS atrocities is now considered “incitement to terrorism”. It is this kind of legislation, it seems, […]
Father Of World Wide Web Launches Platform Which Aims To Radically Decentralize The Internet
Father Of World Wide Web Launches Platform Which Aims To Radically Decentralize The Internet “For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,” Tim Berners-Lee told Vanity Fair last month. “I was devastated” he said while going through a litany of […]
Is a Dystopian “Social Credit” Program Coming to America? Or Is It Already Here?
Is a Dystopian “Social Credit” Program Coming to America? Or Is It Already Here? Have you heard about China’s dystopian new “social credit” program? If you haven’t, there’s a terrifying infographic from Bored Panda that I’ll be referencing throughout this article. The good news is that this is happening in China, where we all know […]
Don’t share this! EU’s new copyright law could kill the free internet
Don’t share this! EU’s new copyright law could kill the free internet © Xesai / Getty Images It’s basically a battle between billionaires Axel Springer SE and Google. But it is ordinary internet users who will fall victim to the EU’s new copyright law, which urgently needs modification. It’s good to share. But the European […]
Freedom Where Did You Go?
Freedom Where Did You Go? My Generation is the last one to have known privacy and to have lived out most of our lives in freedom. I remember when driving licenses did not have photos and most certainly not fingerprints. A driving license was issued on proof of birth date alone. Prior to the appearance […]
New EU Copyright Law Could Force Online Platforms To Ban Memes Across Europe
New EU Copyright Law Could Force Online Platforms To Ban Memes Across Europe A new law being just passed in European Parliament and in the process of becoming finalized has received scant media attention, but could be nothing short of revolutionary in terms of its lasting impact on the internet, political speech and discourse, and the […]
