Category Technology
Facebook’s disinformation problem is harder than it looks, by Matthew Ingram
“finding the right line between disinformation control, public-health awareness, and outright censorship is not an easy task.”
STRATCOM: The Most Dangerous Organization in the World
The Peace Report: Fighting One Empire at a Time
The Pentagon Wants More Control Over the News. What Could Go Wrong? by Matt Taibbi
The most enormous issue posed by the modern media landscape is the industry’s incredible concentration, which allows a handful of private platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Google – to dominate media distribution.
How to Shift Power From the Police to the People, ACLU
A Community Control Over Police Surveillance (CCOPS) law in St. Louis would shift control over the use of surveillance technologies from law enforcement to the people and their elected representatives.
‘There’s a Disconnect Between DC and What People Actually Want’: CounterSpin interview with Tim Karr on net neutrality
Tim Karr: “We’re talking about millions and millions of dollars that have gone from the phone and cable lobby to elected representatives to lobbyists to lawyers, to try to get net neutrality off the books.”
The ‘Weaponization’ of Social Media — And Its Real-World Consequences
Singer and Brooking tackle the mind-bending questions that arise when war goes online and the online world goes to war.
Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots
An identification — whether accurate or not — could cost people their freedom or even their lives.
Facebook is a tyranny – and our government isn’t built to stop it
The greatest tyranny yet would be the merging of corporate monopoly and governmental power to create the most invasive surveillance state in history.
Disarming the Weapons of Mass Distraction by Madeleine Bunting
Distraction has become a commercial and political strategy, and it amounts to a form of emotional violence that cripples people…
Facebook’s ‘Secret’ File on You Is Bigger Than You Think — Here’s How to View It
Whigham urges people to download their file so they can see the extent to which their privacy is being violated by what he calls “surveillance capitalism.”
Google’s Eric Schmidt Admits Political Censorship Of Search Results
Google’s efforts are just one part of a much wider government-corporate drive to assert control over the flow of information over the Internet…
The FCC is having a terrible month, and consumers will pay the price
If you are a supporter of fast, fair, open, and affordable networks, November will be a bad month. And December will be, too. So, keep calling your representatives and senators and tell them that you oppose pretty much everything this FCC is doing.
In our focus on the digital, have we lost our sense of what being human means?
In making the machines smarter, we have sacrificed a little something of ourselves – we run the risk of being reduced to data and the decisions it drives.
Counterpunch: Police Anarchy and Technology and Criminal Justice
In the context of criminal justice, America’s faith in technological interventions is worse than misplaced; it is dangerous.
Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Peacestock 2017
An eye-opening object lesson in U.S. military strength around the world with a special in depth report on Ukraine.
JULY 12TH: INTERNET-WIDE DAY OF ACTION TO SAVE NET NEUTRALITY
The Internet has thrived precisely because of net neutrality. It’s what makes it so vibrant and innovative—a place for creativity, free expression, and exchange of ideas.
WikiLeaks Julian Assange Press Conference On CIA Hacking “Dark matter”(3/23/2017) (Video)
Political analysis comes after first 10 minutes or so of technical information.
Evergreene Digest | How US nuclear force modernization is undermining strategic stability: The burst-height compensating super-fuze
Trump’s Proposed Increase in U.S. Defense Spending Would Be 80 Percent of Russia’s Entire Military Budget
Joe Scarry | A Globally-Connected Peace Movement: What’s Stopping Us?
The biggest obstacle to a truly global peace movement may actually be the structures upon which we’ve leaned for so long . . . . By Joe Scarry Joe Scarry’s Blog December 28, 2016 A globally connected peace movement? To learn more about Rise Up Times and support Media for the People! with a donation click […]
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