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After Pressure on Twitter, Christine Assange’s Account is Restored; Venezuela’s Telesur Now Hit
After Pressure on Twitter, Christine Assange’s Account is Restored; Venezuela’s Telesur Now Hit UPDATED: The Twitter account of Julian Assange’s mother was restored on Wednesday night after her supporters sent a flood of messages to Twitter. Telesur English Hit By Same Restrictions Christine Assange, the mother of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange, had her […]
Goodbye to the Internet: Interference by Governments Is Already Here
Goodbye to the Internet: Interference by Governments Is Already Here There is a saying attributed to the French banker Nathan Rothschild that “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws.” Conservative opinion in the United States has long suspected that Rothschild was right and there have been frequent […]
Social Media Companies “Struggle” to Help Censors Keep us in the Dark
Social Media Companies “Struggle” to Help Censors Keep us in the Dark According to CNN Business, “Facebook, YouTube and Twitter struggle to deal with New Zealand shooting video.” “Deal with” is code for “censor on demand by governments and activist organizations who oppose public access to information that hasn’t first been thoroughly vetted for conformity […]
Social Media, Universal Basic Income, and Cashless Society: How China’s Social Credit System Is Coming To America
Social Media, Universal Basic Income, and Cashless Society: How China’s Social Credit System Is Coming To America Some well-informed Americans may be aware of China’s horrifying “Social Credit System” that was recently unveiled as a method of eradicating any dissent in the totalitarian state. Essentially freezing out anyone who does not conform to the state’s […]
The Real Problem Is the Politicization of Everything
The Real Problem Is the Politicization of Everything The Covington Catholic High School fiasco that has developed over the last weeks has shown more than ever why many are skeptical about the media these days. Facts and context — the reality on the ground — were put in the background in favor of a fable that confirmed […]
Beyond BuzzFeed: The 10 Worst, Most Embarrassing U.S. Media Failures on the Trump/Russia Story
Beyond BuzzFeed: The 10 Worst, Most Embarrassing U.S. Media Failures on the Trump/Russia Story BUZZFEED WAS ONCE notorious for traffic-generating “listicles”, but has since become an impressive outlet for deep investigative journalism under editor-in-chief Ben Smith. That outlet was prominently in the news this week thanks to its “bombshell” story about President Trump and Michael Cohen: a story that, like […]
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 […]
Beyond Kafka: How Youtube & Facebook Keep Purging Alternative Media
Beyond Kafka: How Youtube & Facebook Keep Purging Alternative Media The guillotine’s blade fell again, one year later. On December 2017 already, my 5-years-old Youtube channel Sayed Hasan, mainly translating speeches from Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, was completely removed by Youtube, along with its 10 000 subscribers, +6 millions views and +400 subtitled videos […]
Deplatforming Paves the Way for Cryptocurrency
Deplatforming Paves the Way for Cryptocurrency The recent deplatforming of Sargon of Akkad by Patreon has a lot of people very nervous. I became worried we’d get to this state the first time they went after Gab for not allowing their app in the Google or Apple stores. It became obvious then that we would […]
The Creepy Line: A New Documentary on the Immense Power of Tech Giants
The Creepy Line: A New Documentary on the Immense Power of Tech Giants The Creepy Line, a new documentary by director M.A. Taylor, is now streaming at Amazon Prime. It takes a disturbing look at how Google and Facebook influence their users’ view of the world, and how the companies have pioneered new ways of […]
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 View from the Trenches of the Alternative Media
The View from the Trenches of the Alternative Media What’s scarce in a world awash in free content and nearly infinite entertainment content? After 3,701 posts (from May 2005 to the present), here are my observations of the Alternative Media from the muddy trenches. It’s increasingly difficult to make a living creating content outside the […]
How Social Media Is Becoming an Arm of the State
How Social Media Is Becoming an Arm of the State Say the wrong things and you might get kicked off of your favorite social media platform. Tech titans Apple, Facebook, and YouTube have wiped out talk-show host Alex Jones’s social media presence on the Internet. But the social media crusades weren’t over. Facebook recently took […]
How Social Media Is Becoming an Arm of the State
How Social Media Is Becoming an Arm of the State Say the wrong things and you might get kicked off of your favorite social media platform. Tech titans Apple, Facebook, and YouTube have wiped out talk-show host Alex Jones’s social media presence on the Internet. But the social media crusades weren’t over. Facebook recently took […]
Inside the British Army’s secret information warfare machine
Inside the British Army’s secret information warfare machine They are soldiers, but the 77th Brigade edit videos, record podcasts and write viral posts. Welcome to the age of information warfare. Future Publishing/Getty Images/WIRED Abarbed-wire fence stretched off far to either side. A Union flag twisted in a gust of wind, and soldiers strode in and […]
