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Censorship Comes to Google
Censorship Comes to Google Senator Feinstein rather boldly asked Google to take action to hamper RT’s ability to communicate its views to American audiences. At Saturday’s Halifax International Security Forum, Eric Schmidt announced that Google will alter its search algorithm to “de-rank” results from Russia Today. Why did Google do this? Perhaps they were concerned […]
Bitcoin, Terence McKenna and the Future of the Internet
Bitcoin, Terence McKenna and the Future of the Internet We have millions of people who are warehoused in almost a larval state in their apartments, watching tv, paying for their medical plans, and glued to this mindless opera of cultural decay that’s recited day after day in front of them. I mean, it’s horrible to […]
The FCC’s Order Is Out, We’ve Read It, and Here’s What You Need to Know: It Will End Net Neutrality and Break the Internet
The FCC’s Order Is Out, We’ve Read It, and Here’s What You Need to Know: It Will End Net Neutrality and Break the Internet On Wednesday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai released his draft order to completely eradicate Net Neutrality. You can read the full text here. The short version is that Pai’s order […]
How A North Korean Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Could Kill Millions And Turn America Into A Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland
How A North Korean Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Could Kill Millions And Turn America Into A Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland This is why North Korea’s test of an intercontinental ballistic missile is so important. North Korea had test fired a total of 22 missiles so far this year, but this latest one showed that nobody on the globe […]
From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages
From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages Photo by Credo Action CC BY 2.0 Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their will, censoring content […]
The Surveillance State: An Inexorable March Toward Totalitarianism
The Surveillance State: An Inexorable March Toward Totalitarianism Gizmodo released an article entitled “US Homeland Security Wants Facial Recognition to Identify People in Moving Cars,” on 11/2/17 by Matt Novak. The Surveillance State has slowed down its rate of growth since the President took office, however, it has not halted that growth. Instead, it lies festering […]
In Praise of Being Disconnected
In Praise of Being Disconnected A spectacular web in our Beauty bush. Perhaps the saddest accolade of our modern faith is this: “Our world is more interconnected than ever before.” It’s a statement as bold on the first read as it is meaningless on the second, and one that is not only sad but also […]
The Next Cyber Hurricane Is Coming And It’ll Take Down The Internet
The Next Cyber Hurricane Is Coming And It’ll Take Down The Internet Last year, the botnet Mirai caused a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in October, knocking popular websites off the internet for millions of users. Right now, the next cyber hurricane is on the way, and it could take down the entire internet. According to ZD […]
Censorship in the Digital Age
Censorship in the Digital Age The grand experiment with western democracy, badly listing thanks to broadsides from profiteering oligarchs, may finally run ashore on the rocks of thought crime. In the uneven Steven Spielberg project Minority Report, starring excitable scientologist Tom Cruise, Cruise plays a futuristic policeman who investigates pre-crimes and stops them before they […]
Madrid Waged Cyber-War & Catalonia Votes Overwhelmingly to Leave Spain
Madrid Waged Cyber-War & Catalonia Votes Overwhelmingly to Leave Spain Catalonia voted overwhelmingly to secede from Spain. Of course, the hard line invasion of riot police who beat and threatened the people discouraged many from showing up with the turnout being only 43%. The fascist government in Spain has demonstrated to the entire world that there […]
US Media: Standards Tossed Overboard
US Media: Standards Tossed Overboard Internet development resulted in disappearance of America’s local media to benefit metropolitan mainstream outlets with large countrywide circulation. Predominantly pro-Democratic, they espouse liberal values, paying little attention to political views and everyday life problems of those who live outside megacities. The mainstream media have lost trust of provincial America to […]
Ban on Kaspersky Software: Hypocrisy of US Internet Agenda
Ban on Kaspersky Software: Hypocrisy of US Internet Agenda On September 18, the US Senate voted to ban the use of products from the Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab by the federal government, citing national security risk. The vote was included as an amendment to an annual defense policy spending bill approved by the […]
