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America’s Internet Wasn’t Prepared for Online School…
Distance learning shows how badly rural America needs broadband…
Pelosi’s Take a Big Stake in CrowdStrike
Pelosi’s recent investment in CrowdStrike also adds a new partisan entanglement for a company with significant connections to Democratic Party and intelligence officials that drove Russiagate…
League of California Cities Want Congress to Change Section 230… To Let Cops Spy on Everyone Using Social Media…
At a time when there are widespread political demonstrations against police brutality, both online and in the streets, the League’s proposal intrudes on protected First Amendment activity and would impose onerous burdens on smaller, community-focused websites throughout the state…
The Assange Extradition Case is an Unprecedented Attack on Press Freedom, So Why’s the Media Largely Ignoring It?…
The Assange case creates a precedent that mortally threatens freedom of the press in Britain. If Assange is extradited then any journalist who publishes information that the American authorities deem to be classified, however well-known or harmless it may be, will risk being extradited to face trial in America…
State Department Officials Told They Broke Law by Monitoring Americans During Ukraine Scandal…
Revelation undercuts impeachment testimony; conservative watchdog claims coverup….
How the Police Use Artificial Intelligence to Track and Identify You…
…state and local police all over the US use a range of automated tools, including facial recognition, license plate readers, StingRays (cell-site simulators), predictive policing, video analysis tools and more, to create advanced systems of surveillance with little oversight, all built largely out of the public’s view despite their reach into the lives of ordinary Americans…
Beware: New Android Spyware Found Posing as Telegram and Threema Apps…
The infection begins when a victim visits a fake Android app store called “DigitalApps,” and downloads apps such as Telegram, Threema, and weMessage, suggesting that the group’s motivation behind impersonating messaging apps is to “justify the various permissions requested by the malware.”…
Chinese APT Group Targets Media, Finance, and Electronics Sectors…
“APT groups continue to be highly active in 2020, with their use of dual-use tools and living-off-the-land tactics making their activity ever harder to detect…
Melinda Gates Slams Social Media for Spreading ‘Disinfo’…
It’s ironic, to say the least, considering the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds and influences mainstream media companies, which in turn write whatever the Gates desire, be it truthful or not, without disclosing their conflict of interest…
LETTER FROM LONDON: The Surreal U.S. Case Against Assange…
The fox is guarding the henhouse and Washington is prosecuting a publisher for exposing its own war crimes. Alexander Mercouris diagnoses the incoherence of the U.S. case for extradition…
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Daily Caller Editor: Google Won’t Let You See Our Article Even If You Search for It by Name…
So this is crazy in terms of @googlepubpolicy suppression (and in light of news from the NYT that the WHO is basically full of shit). In April, WHO took a few minutes to remind the world how helpful abortion would be during the pandemic…
Biggest Ransomware Attack Yet Crippled U.S. Hospitals Last Weekend…
One of the nurses, who works in a facility in North Dakota, said that computers slowed and then eventually simply would not turn on in the early hours of Sunday morning. “As of this a.m., all the computers are down completely,” the nurse said.”…
Senate Committee Subpoenas Heads of Facebook, Google and Twitter…
“Even if you happen to agree with them on a particular issue right now, ceding the power to the star chamber of Silicon Valley is profoundly dangerous”…
Because Congress Apparently Has NOTHING AT ALL IMPORTANT to Work On, It Introduced TWO MORE Section 230 Bills Yesterday…
Yes, she keeps saying that “if it’s a crime offline, it should be a crime online” and it always has been. This bill, like her last bill, changed literally nothing about what was a “crime”…
Justice Department Releases Its Dangerous & Unconstitutional Plan to Revise Section 230…
So many of these attempts to reform Section 230 refuse to take into account that people will seek to game the system. And restricting sites’ ability to stop those gaming the system is a recipe for disaster…
Testimony of Former Dir of Monetization for Facebook: “We took a page from Big Tobacco’s playbook” Making the Site “Addictive”…
House Committee on Energy and Commerce Testimony of Tim Kendall Thank you, Chairpersons Pallone and Schakowsky, for inviting me to speak today. When I started working in technology, my hope was to build products that brought people together in new and productive ways. I wanted to improve the world we all lived in. Instead, the […]
Why Netflix Keeps Canceling Shows After Just 2 Seasons…
Last month, Altered Carbon joined Sense8, The OA, and Luke Cage in getting the ax. Fans protested, but for the streaming service, it’s all about data…
REPORT: Google’s Search Business Targeted in U.S. Antitrust Case…
Timing of Justice Department case may slip to week after next. DOJ has been focused on search bias and distribution deals…
Facebook Fact-Checkers Dominated by Left-Leaning Funding, Personnel, Organizations…
What gets fact-checked is determined by Facebook based on “signals, like feedback from people on Facebook,” but the partners can also fact-check whatever they want…
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