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(ZH) — Instagram has begun blocking pages belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) following the organization’s official listing as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization”, or FTO on Monday. The commander of the IRGC’s elite Quds force, Qassem Soleimani, finally had his page blocked following this week’s designation. He had maintained the account for two-and-a-half years, for which he frequently posted […]

In what is arguably one of the most craven opportunistic moves by a business/media group to increase its circulation/profitability, on 10 April the New York Times (NYT) embarked on what it describes as its Privacy Project. A day later on 11 April, no doubt with the NYT’s foreknowledge of what was to come thanks to an unofficial US government tip, Ecuador revoked Julian Assange’s (Wikileaks founder) asylum in its UK Embassy and fed him to the British Police dogs eag

(TMU) — In recent years, the tide of public opinion has slowly but surely turned against the intrusive actions of Big Tech companies. People are tired of corporations mining their personal information and censoring or manipulating their content online and, as a result, the biggest social networks, like Facebook and YouTube, are beginning to see a […]

(TMU) — Facebook has unpublished the page of Ecuador’s former president, Rafael Correa, the social media giant confirmed on Thursday, claiming that the popular leftist leader violated the company’s security policies. In a statement republished by Ecuadorean newspaper El Comercio, a company spokesperson said: “Protecting the privacy and security of people is central to Facebook [and] […]

(ZH) – The CEO of America’s favorite cash furnace, Elon Musk, is now directing his ire toward newly divorced Amazon.com CEO, and still the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, who is nipping at Musk’s heels in the private-company space race. On Twitter Wednesday, Musk went after a plan by Bezos’ space startup, Blue Origin, to launch a network […]

(CD) — Digital rights groups applauded Wednesday as the U.S. House passed the Save the Internet Act (H.R. 1644), in a 232-190 vote, with just one Republican joining the Democrats in supporting the legislation. VICTORY! House votes 231-190 to restore #NetNeutrality. The bill (HR 1644) survived an onslaught of amendments pushed by the telecom lobby, while more than […]

(CONVERSATION) — Donald Trump’s meteoric rise from political outsider to president of the United States surprised nearly everyone – not least political analysts and scientists. Many are hoping for an easy explanation from the Mueller report, including evidence of heavy Russian interference in the campaign. Mueller has indicted numerous Russians in this regard, though more details will emerge when the report is […]

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Has anyone else noticed how over the past few years the corporate media has been dedicating ever more space to articles on how to deal with loneliness, anxiety and insomnia, as well as ways to immerse ourselves in escapist new technology?

(CD) — Despite widespread grassroots opposition, the European Parliament Tuesday approved sweeping copyright rules that critics warn will spawn an internet “censorship machine.” NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden decried the vote, tweeting, in German, “Never forget what they did here.” In a blog post, Danny O’Brien—international director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)—called passage of the copyright rules “a stunning rejection of […]