Internet Control
Tulsi Gabbard delivers a brilliant speech regarding the Weaponization of the Federal Government during a House Subcommittee meeting.
The American kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) continues to suck the American people down a rabbit hole into a parallel universe in which the Constitution is meaningless, the government is all-powerful, and the citizenry is powerless to defend itself against government agents who steal, spy, lie, plunder, kill, abuse and generally inflict mayhem and sow madness on everyone and everything in their sphere.
International power plays are a threat to a stable, open internet. In this environment, building a stable and transnational internet for future generations is a challenge. It requires delicacy and precision. #OpenInternet
Adding more devices to the online universe is destined to create more opportunities for disruption.
Legislators are now trying to tax Netflix and any other type of content that can be downloaded or streamed. The idea is being pushed forward in Georgia, where lawmakers are proposing a tax on digital video, books, music and video games, according to a new piece in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Supporters of restoring nationwide net neutrality rules—which the Republican-controlled Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rolled back last year—are planning “an epic, final protest to pressure lawmakers before a crucial deadline to save the internet.”
Countries across the globe are following in the footsteps of the Chinese government, adopting authoritarian digital practices that pose serious threats to democracy, according to a new Freedom House report. They found that global digital freedom has continued to decline for the eighth consecutive year.
Leaked Google Document Advises to “Police Tone Instead of Content” in the “Shift Towards Censorship”
Another Google document has found its way into the public domain, this time through Breitbart. The news publication reports that an 85-page briefing entitled “The Good Censor,” advises tech companies to “police tone instead of content” and to not “take sides” when censoring users.
Both the Free Thought Project and The Anti-Media lost their social media accounts in a coordinated attack today by Facebook and Twitter.
By passing the EU Copyright Directive, Europe just voted to wreck the internet, spying on everything and censoring vast swathes of our communications. Everything you post, from short text snippets to stills, audio, video, code, etc will be surveilled by copyright bots run by the big platforms.
‘Massive Victory for the Whole Internet’ as California Passes Nation’s Strongest Net Neutrality Bill
In a major victory for the open internet that could have ripple effects throughout the United States, the California Senate thwarted aggressive lobbying by the telecom industry and passed the strongest, most comprehensive net neutrality bill in the nation.
For more than a decade now, activists and truth-seekers have been watching the growing influence of the Internet on society and politics,
Under fire for the worst privacy debacle in his company’s history, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg batted away often-aggressive questioning last Tuesday from lawmakers
In an interview with Democracy Now!, Evan Greer, campaign director of Fight for the Future, called net neutrality “the First Amendment of the Internet” and argued that the struggle to preserve it is “the free speech fight of our generation.”
In order to confront what they consider a frontal attack on the Internet by the Republican Party and the powerful telecommunications industry, defenders of net neutrality joined with some of the web’s most influential companies on Tuesday in announcing a new campaign and global day of action designed to defend rules enshrined by the Federal Communications Commission just two years ago.
