Tag: internet
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#MorningMonarchy: September 13, 2016
Burning phones, tackling terrorists and racist robots + this day in history w/Tupac dies and our song of the day by Kim Gordon on your Morning Monarchy for September 13, 2016.
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Is the Internet killing religion?
from religion.blogs.cnn.com: We can blame the Internet for plenty: the proliferation of porn, our obsession with cat videos, the alleged rise of teen trends like – brace yourself – eyeball […]
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Net Neutrality: Triumph of the Ruling Class
from tucker.liberty.me: A triumph of “core of free expression and democratic principles”? How stupid do they think we are? It’s been painful to watch the gradual tightening of government control […]
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The FCC Says Your City Can Build a Public Internet, Even If Your State Says No
from motherboard.vice.com: The Federal Communications Commission is going to allow two cities to ignore state laws that ban them from building community-owned broadband networks, according to chairman Tom Wheeler. It’s […]
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The Rise of AdBlock Reveals A Serious Problem in the Advertising Ecosystem
from mondaynote.com: Seeing a threat to their ecosystem, French publishers follow their German colleagues and prepare to sue startup Eyeo GmbH, the creator of anti-advertising software AdBlock Plus. But they […]
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#Solutions: ‘Let’s Encrypt’ Aims to Boost Internet Security
from techtimes.com: Companies are becoming increasingly concerned about security. In this vein, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has partnered with Akamai, Cisco, IdenTrust and Mozilla to create a new service called […]
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FCC Officialy Approves Plan to Consider Paid Priority on Internet
from washingtonpost.com: The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted in favor of advancing a proposal that could dramatically reshape the way consumers experience the Internet, opening the possibility of Internet […]
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Are You Ready for a Government Issued Driver’s License for the Internet?
from govtech.com: Government is raising its expectations. While it hasn’t been uncommon in the past for governments to consider money wasted by fraud, mismanagement or inefficiency as an expense of […]
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Google & Facebook Used Lobbying Groups to Oppose Internet Surveillance Restrictions
from vice.com: Revelations about the National Security Agency’s most controversial surveillance program, which centers on the bulk collection of hundreds of billions of records of Americans’ phone conversations, were quickly […]
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Australian ISP’s against government crackdown on piracy
from afr.com: Australia’s leading internet service providers have hit out at proposals by Attorney-General George Brandis to stop internet piracy as being a “political thought-bubble” and burden on the industry […]
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Turkey adopts ‘Orwellian’ internet curbs
from sbs.com.au: Turkish MPs have adopted new internet legislation roundly criticised as a fresh assault by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on freedom of expression, access to information and investigative […]
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Net neutrality gets a kick in the teeth
A US court has ruled against the FCC’s Open Internet regulations, putting the future of net neutrality completely up in the air. from zdnet.com: The United States Court of […]
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One Month After Government Shutdown, Silk Road 2.0 Launches
from vocativ.com: The underground black market is back! Meanwhile, the government admits its “whack-a-mole” strategy failed. Last week, it was reported that the mysterious Dread Pirate Roberts II was planning […]
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Vietnam Bans Free Speech Online with Decree 72
from libertyblitzkrieg.com / by Micheal Kreiger: I’ve been watching the progressive erosion of civil liberties in Vietnam with a watchful eye for some time now. The country first appeared on […]
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#Solutions: Greek community creates an off-the-grid Internet
from dailydot.com: In an effort to buck the expensive rates of unreliable corporate telecom companies, a community in Athens, Greece has created its own private Internet. Built from a network […]