An amateur video showing a man using a hammer to smash dozens of mobile phones has caused quite a stir in Gabon. And for good reason: the phones belong to the students of the high school in Port-Gentil – many of whom watched, dumbstruck, as their phones were destroyed. The video was filmed on October […]
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Chinese-Style ‘Digital Authoritarianism’ Grows Globally…
Governments worldwide are stepping up use of online tools, in many cases inspired by China’s model, to suppress dissent and tighten their grip on power, a human rights watchdog study found Thursday. The annual Freedom House study of 65 countries found global internet freedom declined for the eighth consecutive year in 2018, amid a rise […]
Ecuador’s Government Cuts Off All Access to Julian Assange Including to His Lawyers…
According to the Courage Foundation, which has campaigned against the persecution of Julian Assange, the Ecuadorian Embassy in London has forbidden access to all visitors to the WikiLeaks publisher, including his lawyers, until Monday, amid an urgent lawsuit. Most immediately, the ban obstructs a legal appeal by Assange against an Ecuadorian judge’s decision last week […]
Inventor of Web: Facebook and Google May Need to Be Broken Up…
The man credited with inventing the World Wide Web says that dominant tech giants such as Facebook and Google may need to be broken up unless viable challengers emerge, or shifting preferences result in people gravitating away from dominant names. London-born computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee told Reuters that he is disappointed with the evolution of […]
Ever Wonder How Gov Uses Ginormous Database on You and Me?…
In July 1996, flight TWA 800 exploded in mid-air, 12 minutes after taking off from JFK International Airport in New York. All 230 passengers on board were killed. It would be four years before an investigation concluded the likely cause of the explosion was a short circuit in the plane’s fuel tank. But at the […]
DOJ Indicts Two Chinese Intelligence Operatives in Corporate Hacking Scheme…
In an indictment that amounts to the Trump Administration’s latest escalation of its crackdown on Chinese spying and intellectual technology theft, the Department of Justice on Tuesday indicted two Chinese intelligence officers for helping to direct “co-opted company insiders” and hackers to carry out “repeated intrusions” into internal company systems in the US and overseas. […]
Microsoft Has Been Sharing Indian Bank Customers’ Data with U.S. Intelligence Agencies…
An investigation by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has revealed that Microsoft has been passing user data that it gathers from Indian banks that are Office 365 customers to various U.S. intelligence agencies, upon demand. The outcome of this investigation was compiled into a Risk Assessment Report (RAR), which was submitted to these banks […]
Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media ‘Just the Beginning,’ Warns Top Neocon Insider…
This October, Facebook and Twitter deleted the accounts of hundreds of users, including many alternative media outlets maintained by American users. Among those wiped out in the coordinated purge were popular sites that scrutinized police brutality and U.S. interventionism, like The Free Thought Project, Anti-Media, and Cop Block, along with the pages of journalists like […]
NSA Has Top Secret Documents on Seth Rich…
But now there is new information that may corroborate what the human sources quoted in the Fox article claimed about Seth’s role in getting the DNC documents to Wikileaks. Borne from a FOIA request filed in November 2017 by attorney Ty Clevenger, who requested any information regarding Seth Rich and and Julian Assange. The NSA […]
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Attack on Gab Proves Speech Was Never Free…
The First Amendment protects your right to say whatever you want free from government prosecution. It does not protect you from saying hateful things on private properties or privately-owned forums without fear of repercussion. That is the very definition of freedom of association. Friday’s attack by an unhinged, vile piece of human excrement on a […]
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Gab Dumped by Tech Companies Over Synagogue Shooter Posts but Twitter, Facebook, and Other Social-Media Giants Get a Pass…
‘City of Surveillance’: Google-Backed Smart City Sounds Like a Dystopian Nightmare…
A Google-backed project to build the interconnected, data-driven ‘city of the future’ sounds like all George Orwell’s nightmares come true, and is now in the spotlight after a privacy expert resigned from the project in protest. Toronto’s Waterfront district used to be an industrial wasteland, but Sidewalk Labs – a sister company of Google – […]
The NEW Social Media: Alternatives to Facebook, YouTube,Twitter, and Other Big Tech Platforms…
Lately, I’ve written a lot about the alternative media purge and how Big Tech social media platforms are attempting to control the narrative, the elections, and public perception through censorship and financial blacklisting. Lots of people are ready to leave websites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube for less-censored pastures. But what are the social media […]
Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them…
If it seems as though the app you deleted last week is suddenly popping up everywhere, it may not be mere coincidence. Companies that cater to app makers have found ways to game both iOS and Android, enabling them to figure out which users have uninstalled a given piece of software lately—and making it easy […]
Smile! The Secretive Business of Facial-Recognition Software in Retail Stores…
Have you been to Madison Square Garden recently? Or Kennedy International Airport? If so, there’s a good chance that you were photographed by a security camera. Depending on where you were and the technology being used, your face may have been analyzed by bots and checked against a database of criminals and “known shoplifters.” It […]
Silicon Valley’s Saudi Money Crisis Illustrates a Decline of ‘Moral Leadership’ in America…
Some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies are swimming in billions of dollars invested by the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman — a heavy financial backer of SoftBank’s Vision Fund who is now accused of ordering the torture and assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “Anywhere you tug, at any company or any investment […]
From “Soft” Tyranny to Totalitarian Rule: America’s Unrelenting Data Collection…
We have almost reached the point where the country can be referred to as “totalitarian” in accordance with the definition provided. Incrementally, it creeps forward: the “soft” tyranny. Curing, refining itself, and hardening, there will be a point of no return that is reached… a point where it has metastasized until it is both all […]
Julian Assange Sues Ecuador for ‘Violating His Rights’…
Julian Assange took legal action against Ecuador on Friday for violating his “fundamental rights” and limiting his access to the outside world. The move comes in response to a new policy governing Assange’s stay at the South American nation’s London embassy. Earlier this week, Ecuador threatened Assange with expulsion if he kept “interfering in the […]
Inside Facebook’s Stormy Debate Over ‘Political Diversity’…
At one point this summer, Brian Amerige seemed destined to become the next James Damore. Like Damore, the Google engineer who wrote a manifesto protesting the company’s “ideological echo-chamber” last year, Amerige also authored a controversial memo accusing his employer, Facebook, of being a “political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views.” Like Damore, who argued […]
Alleged Hacker ‘threatens to sell details of 319 million Apple iCloud users, demanded $174G in Bitcoin’…
An alleged hacker threatened to sell the personal details of 319million Apple iCloud users online, a court heard Wednesday. IT analyst Kerem Albayrak, 21, filmed himself accessing accounts and posted the footage on YouTube, it was said. He then allegedly demanded more than $174,000 worth of Bitcoin and $1,100 iTunes vouchers from tech giant Apple […]
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