Experts warn about EU law that could change the architecture of the internet, forcing websites to install flawed and expensive filters that would block satirical content like memes and lead to digital monopolization.
Before the year 2014, there were many people using Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Today, there are still many people using services from those three tech giants (respectively, GOOG, FB, AMZN). However, the underlying dynamics of power on the Web have drastically changed, and those three companies are at the center of a fundamental transformation of the Web.
When the Guardian offered John Lanchester access to the GCHQ files, the journalist and novelist was initially unconvinced. But what the papers told him was alarming: that Britain is sliding towards an entirely new kind of surveillance society.
"During the Civil War, Union-occupied Roanoke Island… became home to thousands of former slaves. Initially these refugees settled near the Union headquarters, creating a community that included churches and a school. In the spring of 1863, this camp evolved into a government-sanctioned colony. … Although the Roanoke Island freedmen's colony was an experiment of national significance, few people are aware of its history. This site presents an introduction to the colony and the colonial experiment that was conducted there."
Autoritäre Staaten drängen auf Internet-Kontrolle durch Regierungen und wollen dies in einem verbindlichen globalen Abkommen verankern. Wenn sie Erfolg haben, könnte das Internet weniger offen, teurer und weitaus langsamer werden. Wir haben Bedrohungen wie diese bereits mehrfach abgewendet und wir können dies jetzt wieder tun -- aber nur mit einer gewaltigen weltweiten Protestwelle!
A Greek journalist who published the names of more than 2,000 of his compatriots who held Swiss bank accounts was acquitted on Thursday (1 November) in a case that touched a nerve over the role of tax evasion in the country's debt crisis.
Julian Oliver has put his finger smack on the pulse. The paradox is what economists call a supply-and-demand imbalance: Surging demand for 24/7 news has become inversely proportional to the supply of quality journalism.
Closing the loopholes in tax laws that unfairly benefit Google must be clearly distinguished from the discussion of possible support to the ailing press, writes Jan Malinowski.
On July 2, 1839, Sengbe Pieh (later known as Joseph Cinqué) led 53 fellow Africans being transported as captives aboard the Spanish schooner 'La Amistad' from Havana in a revolt against their captors. The captives had been taken in Africa by a Portuguese slaving ship and then smuggled into Havana under cover of nightfall, because this was a violation of an already existing treaty between Britain and Spain, which forbade trading in slaves.
The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war against the general purpose computer, and the stakes are the freedom, fortune and privacy of the entire human race.
Enabling researchers to move more freely between EU member states and creating a European Research Area is only a first step towards a true ‘fifth freedom’, argue Hans Martens and Fabian Zuleeg from the European Policy Centre.
In a sign that Europe is willing to use a wide variety of rationales for enhancing mobility even further, the EU spent the Spring of 2008 laying the groundwork for a “new freedom” – “the movement of knowledge”.
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Golden Liberty (Latin: Aurea Libertas; Polish: Złota Wolność), sometimes referred to as Golden Freedoms, Nobles' Democracy or Nobles' Commonwealth (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Szlachecka or Złota Wolność, Latin: áurea libertas) refers to a unique aristocratic political system in the Kingdom of Poland and later, after the Union of Lublin (1569), in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
And if this doesn't work, please google "wikileaks".
Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and public analysis
L'ancien Premier ministre de François Mitterand s'est associé à la lettre envoyée par deux associations qui reprochent à la France "d'imposer une interprétation très limitée du droit du citoyen d'accéder aux informations". Le député européen
Group of ordinary people who believed that good health is a right, not a benefit that should be determined by government or based on economic or social status, who want to exercise their right to make informed choices regarding their health care.
Open source is changing the face of computing and challenging $billion companies, what could it do if this community based R&D is focused on other areas such as the environment, energy production, medicine or food supply? An organization free from profit margins and government restraints could change the world.
Privacy International (PI) is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations. PI is based in London, England, and has an office in Washington, D.C. PI has conducted campaigns and res
Global Voices seeks to amplify, curate and aggregate the global conversation online - with a focus on countries and communities outside the U.S. and Western Europe. We are committed to developing tools, institutions and relationships that will help a
As an academic -- and one, who as a child, was fortunate enough to have his parents take him from a "fear" to a "free" society -- I suggest that the principle of freedom of speech must be treasured over all other principles, especially in universities, wh
I found it difficult to believe that the president of a Canadian university would come out so strongly against freedom of the press -- or as Wade MacLauchlan refers to it, "reckless free speech." What I found most offensive, however, was the way he tried
A response to a letter, posted on the website of the University of Prince Edward Island, from a Muslim woman to Wade MacLauchlan, President of the University of Prince Edward Island.
Yesterday, my local university's student newspaper became the first paper in Canada to print the twelve "Muhammed" cartoons. Two hundred copies were picked up by students before the President and the student union/government agreed that the newsp
In trying to understand the motives of those who have supported or opposed the publication of these cartoons we must realize that there are at least two sets of players on either side of the issue.
Rationalizations notwithstanding, the refusal of the US media to show the images at the heart of one of the most urgent stories of the day is not about restraint and good taste. It's about fear.
For the past two weeks, Patrick Sookhdeo has been canvassing the opinions of Muslim clerics in Britain on the row over the cartoons featuring images of Mohammed that were first published in Denmark and then reprinted in several other European countries.