For some years now, a battle has been waging for the internet’s “soul”, which has gone relatively unnoticed so far. The key players, on the one hand, have been the …
Article 230
Twenty-six words in an article of a 1996 u.s. law allowed the internet to be what we know it to be; and in “content publishing” giants like google, facebook and …
Censorship techniques: an apartheid’s example
The israeli apartheid on palestinian land could not, at a time when information “circulates freely”, fail to also include a corresponding digital apartheid, or the control and censorship in information concerning itself and circulating on the world wide web. The practice of censorship or reality distortion was always the basic toolbox of any totalitarian regime. And israel sets the example for even that.
Arrogance – capitalist!
…We are an empire now, and when we act we create our own reality. And while you will study this reality – with envy – we will act again, creating …
A Finnish dream
The world (the subjects of the capitalist world) haven’t even begun to grasp the changes—some of them fundamental—that 3G and 4G communications brought to their behaviors, lives, and views. The …
The first wave…
It was bound to happen. Rumors—and credible reports—had been flashing up here and there for quite some time. Finally it was made official: the Chinese technoscientific corpus has found a …
Not much freedom
The existence of “likes” on social media may not be beneficial. Its inventors, of course, had the good in mind. The ability of users to express their (positive) taste; or, …
The insomnia of the mine
We can not verify the accuracy of this table. But it has a value. It shows that what in everyday life is meant as “personal” and “unique” is simply a …
Foucault in cyberspace: surveillance, sovereignty and embedded censorship
[ Original title: Foucault in Cyberspace, Surveillance, Sovereighty, and Hard-Wired Censors.James Boyle is a professor at Duke Law School, where he teaches courses on intellectual property and the constitution in …
5G
In a rather unexpected development of the affair / spectacle “Huawei and how to stop it”, its founder and owner, Ren Zhengfei, announced 3 days ago in an interview with …
communications as a weapon
Researcher Yasha Levine recently discovered a 40-page brochure from 1944 in the public library of New York, a Western Electric edition, which was then the telephone monopoly in the USA. …
“Total experience”
If you are wondering what kind of “gifts” (for everyday use) the 4th industrial revolution brings to all the people, the photo above (from the presentation of some 5G applications …