TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
There are lots of good strategies for beating both corporate and government Internet censors and snoops. These range from alternatives to Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter — to direct subscriptions to authors and pubs — to setting up your own VPN. All are worth the effort. While Google’s Information Age dominance has long been recognized Read More…
New data released by the World Socialist Web Site seems to confirm what many had feared: the new Google search evaluation protocol is adversely affecting a broad array of leftist, whistleblower and democratic rights organizations, and anti-war news outlets. The data, collected from the search engine metric website SEMrush, shows massive drops in traffic to WikiLeaks, the Intercept, Read More…
Look at that. Do you see it? The pieces are sitting there on the table. All we have to do is fit them together. But it’s as if a Medusa head has been cut up into a jigsaw puzzle; simply piecing it together would create a picture too ghastly for anyone to behold. So I’ll Read More…
You can’t get a more literal interpretation. Google’s new document of guidelines that it will use to determine facts and punish websites is straight out of 1984. Is anyone going to say anything? And if they do, will anyone hear us? Melissa Dykes discusses how content is going to be buried in Google’s Internet of Truth. Read More…
For those who have managed to avoid this storyline, James Damore, now a former Google employee, caused outrage when he circulated a manifesto on Friday, complaining about Google’s “ideological echo chamber,” alleging women have lower tolerance for stress and that conservatives are more conscientious. By Monday, the chess master, who studied at Harvard, Princeton and MIT and worked Read More…
RFID chips are in the news again, this time as employees volunteer for implants — but the chips’ convenience lures more to implants before the impact on rights can be assessed. If a steel truth exists in decades of technological innovation, it rests firmly in the convenience provided society — indeed, while the mother of Read More…