What kind of world will we live in when when Facebook, Twitter, and Google, working with the government and its intelligence services, control everything we see and hear?… Read More Matt Taibbi: How Facebook and Google Threaten Our Civil Liberties
The social network is too big and broken to properly function, and these “fixes” will only create more problems… Read More Taibbi: Beware the Slippery Slope of Facebook Censorship
For the first time in history, the internet, with its electronic surveillance, and the collusion of data accumulators, make it possible for the authorities to control and manipulate every aspect of life… Read More The World Is Becoming a Deep State Paradise
Julian Assange is on a most wanted list not for what he’s already published, but for what he might yet publish in the future… Read More I Am Julian Assange
Reporters Without Borders warns Britain is approaching tipping point in wake of passage of Investigatory Powers Act… Read More ‘Downward Spiral’: UK Slips to 40th Place in Press Freedom Rankings
All in all, these new systems will benefit the large and the unethical at the cost of the small and nimble… Read More The EU’s Latest Copyright Proposal Is So Bad, It Even Outlaws Creative Commons Licenses
Not only has Rajoy spectacularly failed to defuse the Catalan issue (in fact he’s done more for independence than anyone else on the planet), but his actions have also unearthed Spain’s underlying fascism and Francoism for us all to see.… Read More Dear Spain, Don’t Criticise the International Media. Blame Your Own Government.
The ominous assault on the final redoubts of a free press, through an attempt to brand dissidents, independent journalists and critics of corporate power and imperialism as agents of a foreign power, has begun… Read More Building the Iron Wall
People will be living in a world that they think they understand and know about, but they’ll unknowingly be viewing only establishment-approved information… Read More Assange Keeps Warning Of AI Censorship, And It’s Time We Started Listening
Fixing a flaw is one thing, but how do you fix a feature?… Read More Big Brother = You
As is always true of censorship, there is one, and only one, principle driving all of this: power… Read More Facebook Admits It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments
If net neutrality is eliminated, America’s naked corporatists will restructure how the Internet works, creating information superhighways for corporate and political elites and digital dirt roads for those who cannot afford the corporate tolls… Read More Net Neutrality and the Rise of Naked Corporatism
