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
Right up to the creepy line… and beyond!… Read More They’re Spending Billions to Chip Our Brains
Can an algorithm designed to provide ethical reporting be trusted if the gatekeepers leveraging it already have track records of tweaking their algorithms to restrict the reach of independent media sites?… Read More Your Internet Is About to Get a Lot More Censored
When professional fact checkers are flagging up satirical publishers for “fake content”, perhaps it’s time to worry… Read More Is Satire “Fakenews”? – How Fact-Checkers Peddle Snake-Oil
Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet… Read More Tech Insiders Fear Addictive “Smartphone Dystopia”
No dominant class can long retain control when the credibility of the ideas that justify its existence evaporates… Read More The Silencing of Dissent
