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All apologies, rap confessions and reefer records + this day in history w/the Maharishi gets dumped and our song of the day by Cult Tourist on your Morning Monarchy for June 15, 2018.

Cyber capabilities, net neutralities and smart cat toilets + this day in history w/the Pulse Nightclub shooting and our song of the day by Luminatrix on your Morning Monarchy for June 12, 2018.

There was a time when the internet was an experiment in anarchy, but it is increasingly becoming an experiment in “stateness”, meaning police-order. Social networks are in crisis. Our governments are losing patience with them, grilling geek after geek to demand they be more loyal to the nation-state and take a more active role suppressing apparently foreign points of view.

Cloud push, credit crash and algorithm advice + this day in history w/the start of the Six Day War and our song of the day by Gorillaz on your Morning Monarchy for June 5, 2018.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes has admonished Google and Twitter over anti-conservative censorship and called for a new search engine that doesn't censor conservatives. Last week Google was called out after a search result showed the word "Nazism" under the California Republican Party's ideology. Nunes also criticized Twitter for censoring the Drudge Report. [...]

Google gave in to employee demands after dozens of them quit and close to 4,000 signed a petition demanding that the tech giant cancel its contract with the Pentagon to build artificial intelligence (AI) technology for weapons and that it implement “a clear policy stating that neither Google nor its contractors will ever build warfare technology." [...]

(CD) — Accusing Facebook, Google, WhatsApp, and Instagram of “intentionally” violating Europe’s strict new privacy rules that officially went into effect on Friday, Austrian lawyer and privacy activist Max Schrems filed four lawsuits against the tech companies arguing they are still “coercing users into sharing personal data” despite rolling out new policies ostensibly aimed at complying with the new […]

Billionaire bondholders, high ambitions and training robots + this day in history w/the Manchester Ariana bombing and our song of the day by Stickybudz on your Morning Monarchy for May 22, 2018.

Around a dozen Google employees have quit and close to 4,000 have signed a petition over the company’s involvement in a controversial military pilot program known as “Project Maven,” which will use artificial intelligence to speed [...]

Laser eyes, license scans and hacking fridges + this day in history w/Tom Waits' lawsuits and our song of the day by TWRP on your Morning Monarchy for May 8, 2018.