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Trump Administration Lobbying Hard for Sweeping Surveillance Law
Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LOBBYING HARD FOR SWEEPING SURVEILLANCE LAW THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is pushing hard for the reauthorization of a key 2008 surveillance law — section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA — three months before it sunsets in December. To persuade senators to reauthorize the law in full, […]
Apple, Google, and how not to go 100% renewable
Apple, Google, and how not to go 100% renewable Earlier this year I described how the Dutch Railwayswere using “alternative logic” to claim that their trains were running on 100% wind power while in reality they were running about 90% on coal and gas-fired electricity from the Dutch grid. But Nederlandse Spoorwegen aren’t the only […]
Why Is Google Hiring 1,000 Journalists To Flood Newsrooms Around America?
Why Is Google Hiring 1,000 Journalists To Flood Newsrooms Around America? So what do you do when you fail to elect your chosen candidate and your former political allies and mainstream media turn against youby painting you not as the ‘progressive’, open-minded, friendly tech company that you used to be but as an evil, racist, […]
Welcome to 1984: Big Brother Google now watching your every political move
Welcome to 1984: Big Brother Google now watching your every political move © Hoxton / Paul Bradbury / Getty Images Google has taken the unprecedented step of burying material, mostly from websites on the political right, that it has deemed to be inappropriate. The problem, however, is that the world’s largest search engine is a left-leaning […]
Political Backlash Grows Over Google’s Pressure To Censor “Independent” Think Tank
Political Backlash Grows Over Google’s Pressure To Censor “Independent” Think Tank It was only a matter of time until this happened… For years now, the politicos of the Left have embraced a perfectly symbiotic relationship with the ‘progressive’ leaders of Silicon Valley. Tech titans, like Google’s Eric Schmidt who got very cozy with the Hillary […]
Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like—I Know Because It Happened to Me [Updated]
Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like—I Know Because It Happened to Me [Updated] llustration: Jim Cooke/GMG, photo: Getty The story in the New York Times this week was unsettling: The New America Foundation, a major think tank, was getting rid of one of its teams of scholars, the Open Markets […]
How the CIA made Google
How the CIA made Google Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet— part 1 THIS IS PART ONE. READ PART TWO HERE. This exclusive is being released for free in the public interest, and was enabled by crowdfunding. I’d like to thank my amazing community of patrons for their support, which gave me […]
One Statistics Professor Was Just Banned By Google: Here Is His Story
One Statistics Professor Was Just Banned By Google: Here Is His Story Statistics professor Salil Mehta, adjunct professor at Columbia and Georgetown who teaches probability and data science and whose work has appeared on this website on numerous prior occasions, was banned by Google on Friday. What did Salil do to provoke Google? It is […]
The truth will not be Googled
The truth will not be Googled Google has come under scrutiny by free-speech organisations for shutting down neo-Nazi website, Daily Stormer, seemingly too distracted to notice the tech giant has been waging a censorship campaign against progressive news organisations that publish content which conflicts with the narrative of the Washington establishment, along with Facebook and […]
Top Canadian Court Permits Worldwide Internet Censorship
Top Canadian Court Permits Worldwide Internet Censorship A country has the right to prevent the world’s Internet users from accessing information, Canada’s highest court ruled on Wednesday. In a decision that has troubling implications for free expression online, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a company’s effort to force Google to de-list entire domains and […]
Why The Markets Are Overdue For A Gigantic Bust
r.classen/Shutterstock Why The Markets Are Overdue For A Gigantic Bust It’s just not possible to print our way to prosperity Let me begin with a caveat: confirmation bias is an ever-present risk for an analyst such as myself. If you’re not familiar with the term, ‘confirmation bias’ suggests that once we’ve invested time and emotional […]
Google Permanently Bans 200 “Fake News” Sites
Google Permanently Bans 200 “Fake News” Sites The crackdown has begun. In a blog post by Scott Spencer, director of product management for sustainable ads, posted on Wednesday, Google said it has banned 200 publishers from accessing its Adsense advertising service for posting fake news stories. Google said it had cracked down on sites which contained […]
The Android Administration: Google’s Remarkably Close Relationship With the Obama White House, in Two Charts
Illustration by The Intercept. Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images THE ANDROID ADMINISTRATION Google’s Remarkably Close Relationship With the Obama White House, in Two Charts WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA announced his support last week for a Federal Communications Commission plan to open the market for cable set-top boxes — a big win for consumers, but also for Google — the cable […]
