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| - | WESTCOAST-IDEALS - FREE | ||
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| - | MEDIA CASE - INTRODUCTION | ||
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| - | Ideals ... | ||
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| - | While the other movements of the 50s and 60s had produced | ||
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| - | tangible results, the hippie movement did not (if not | ||
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| - | counting the Woodstock festival). | ||
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| - | Thus, in the 70s some put their hopes in technology. | ||
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| - | They started developing new technologies for the alternative | ||
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| - | press, community radio stations, home-brew computer clubs | ||
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| - | and video collectives. | ||
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| - | So... | ||
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| - | o Social media is a giant phenomenon, but not entirely free! | ||
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| - | o The state of free publishing ... free anywhere, free format? | ||
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| - | like there is a need for basics, charity, nonprofits, | ||
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| - | there is a place for 'free media': | ||
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| - | and yes! good thing if social media can serve as a topic | ||
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| - | switch board for the cybermind. Always media & bubble aware | ||
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| - | With these ideals... Where are we?? | ||
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| - | 2016-04-16 | ||
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| - | o latest comment, on ' | ||
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| - | 2016-04-20 | ||
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| - | A leading journalism advocacy group said | ||
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| - | world press freedom (check wiki index 2014 page) | ||
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| - | deteriorated in 2015, especially in the | ||
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| - | Americas, warning of "a new era of propaganda" | ||
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| - | o Read short report on World Press Freedom Index 2015 | ||
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| - | 2016-08-08 | ||
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| - | o latest comment, on auditory hallucination (refuting | ||
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| - | the leading theory of will by Chris Frith with a synth!) | ||
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| - | on status page | ||
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| - | see status notes 5 and 6 | ||
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| - | 2016-08-12 starting this day | ||
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| - | WE ARE AN UNOFFICIAL SUBSTITUTE | ||
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| - | for worldpress.org headlines Europe | ||
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| - | which we call world FREE press headlines | ||
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| - | skip to more recent | ||
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| - | found 2016-09-04 | ||
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| - | concerning the case of our declining traffic, | ||
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| - | due to our status at twitter, google, and | ||
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| - | the comments on that on this site ... | ||
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| - | this changes everything: | ||
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| - | dark forces denigrate environmentalists as terrorists | ||
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| - | (a practice well-known to westcoast, we ran a website devoted to this naming) | ||
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| - | snippet from https:// | ||
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| - | The contact person given was Rich Levine, who previously | ||
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| - | worked for Bivings as a Monsanto web-guru. [49] The president | ||
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| - | of V-fluence is Jay Byrne, who has over 15 years experience | ||
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| - | in public relations, campaign communications and government | ||
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| - | affairs. [50] He was also the former chief internet strategist | ||
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| - | and director of corporate communications for Monsanto, where | ||
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| - | he spent a quarter of his time monitoring the web for rogue | ||
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| - | web- and activist sites. [51] In 2001, Byrne gave a presentation | ||
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| - | to a PR conference called ' | ||
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| - | Look at the Perils and Power of the Internet' | ||
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| - | into Monsanto' | ||
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| - | protect your brand', | ||
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| - | necessary to 'Take Action, Take Control' | ||
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| - | included: 'Viral marketing and other dialogue opportunities, | ||
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| - | monitoring and participation' | ||
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| - | One PowerPoint slide showed ' | ||
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| - | included 'Daily monitoring of over 500 competitor, industry, | ||
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| - | " | ||
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| - | usergroups and chat rooms; Technology monitoring and updates | ||
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| - | including search engine programs and legal monitoring' | ||
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| - | Another chart on the PowerPoint presentation gave the difference | ||
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| - | before and after taking control of the internet to rig a search | ||
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| - | engine to go from finding hits they did not want to finding hits | ||
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| - | they did want if someone was searching for 'GM foo' | ||
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| - | hits included: ' | ||
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| - | FDA; Biotech Knowledge Center; CFFAR; Food Biotech Center; and | ||
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| - | Biotech Basics' | ||
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| - | independent sites, yet we now know that three of these are | ||
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| - | acknowledged Bivings projects BioTech Terms; Biotech Knowledge | ||
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| - | Center and Biotech Basics. Two seem to have links to Bivings | ||
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| - | AgBioWorld and CFFAR. One AgCare is a biotech lobby front in | ||
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| - | Canada, and the other the US FDA is seen by the biotech industry | ||
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| - | as an ally. | ||
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| - | Of these, the CFFAR site is the most worrying in that it denigrates | ||
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| - | environmentalists as terrorists. It is the site that Andura wanted | ||
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| - | the scientists to look at. Once you denigrate someone it becomes | ||
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| - | easier to attack them, both physically and mentally and even | ||
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| - | intellectually. Byrne finished by quoting Michael Dell, the | ||
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| - | CEO of Dell computers: 'Think of the internet as a weapon on | ||
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| - | the table. Either you pick it up or your competitor does | ||
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| - | but somebody is going to get killed.' | ||
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| - | is it possible to link companies that promote, finance these practices | ||
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| - | not only to the fate my twitter, google status but also to the 2008 | ||
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| - | attempt on my plz swype, the manipulation of google to hide | ||
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| - | violence against green in the EU (nl, uk) as reported in 2014? | ||
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| - | (this is NOT what WE're about, of course) | ||
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| - | Google seems to focus on more friendly | ||
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| - | news, projects, info when it comes | ||
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| - | to green, and avoid govt. criticism | ||
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| - | (info on green activism, victimization | ||
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| - | both physically and in words, status) | ||
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| - | update 01 | ||
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| - | Google Openly Advertizes Power to Kick | ||
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| - | Sites off the ' | ||
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| - | Our sites were first affected 2013 ... | ||
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| - | but wait, what's the news (2016-01-25) | ||
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| - | ISIS sites are next - yeah right | ||
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| - | [ non ironic | ||
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| - | so they weren' | ||
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| - | ANALYSIS - A WEB 3.0? | ||
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| - | google in the news | ||
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| - | o cnet - AI is important to them | ||
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| - | o newsweek - recently showed of plan to kick sites off the ' | ||
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| - | o zdnet - they plan to put a cross at side of non https sites | ||
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| - | o zdnet - they will enforce safe ads through chrome browser | ||
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| - | o last years brazil, s-am has left the ggl dns universe | ||
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| - | o last month [jan16] govt requested silval to work against rad | ||
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| - | o last week in nyt international - ggl is anti nonprofit | ||
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| - | google' | ||
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| - | o dont be evil | ||
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| - | o if you dont want anyone to know, | ||
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| - | should you be doing it in the first place | ||
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| - | terminal thoughts on 70s publishing ideals | ||
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| - | We think for google the end of non-profit Web | ||
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| - | has a certain logic, because it connects | ||
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| - | information to people, or vv. | ||
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| - | It's related to current 'end of audience' | ||
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| - | It's no use to publish non-profit information | ||
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| - | because in this media world people will never | ||
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| - | hear from something they have not already set | ||
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| - | up their devices to hear about - the info consumer | ||
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| - | has ' | ||
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| - | The 70s westcoast ideals of publishing for all has | ||
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| - | grown to be more about connecting one to one, | ||
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| - | using search. | ||
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| - | Search and web is often about facts or context, not an | ||
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| - | extensive attempt at persuasion - that can happen | ||
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| - | on facebook or twitter and for the big social issues, | ||
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| - | like those listed on wikipedia article ' | ||
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| - | So, there is no free audience for all, | ||
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| - | not provided by google at least: | ||
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| - | Google is not in business for the | ||
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| - | publisher' | ||
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| - | westcoast ideals... | ||
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| - | We're dead, the Web's dead ;-) | ||
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| - | Long Live the Internet [wired.com] | ||
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| - | Greets! | ||
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| - | Westcoast Ideals | ||
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| - | westcoast-ideals.com | ||
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| - | Continued | ||
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| - | (yes, now on 1 page :-) | ||
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| - | June 1st 2016 | ||
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| - | the EU initiative ' | ||
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| - | is now being enforced - corporate justice | ||
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| - | as i wrote, has arrived. Twitter punishes | ||
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| - | and seeks purpetrators with a crude algorithm. | ||
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| - | We estimate that in the first two weeks | ||
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| - | a whopping 250.000 europeans had their right | ||
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| - | to free speech violated. If 1 in 10 would have | ||
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| - | counted on social media to promote a company | ||
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| - | and sued for 500.000 euros, we lost 12.5B | ||
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| - | in potential economically, | ||
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| - | for certain. After this black day of censorship | ||
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| - | and corporate execution or justice ... we | ||
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| - | (at this site) lost 3 months of tweets and | ||
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| - | traffic to the site. ' | ||
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| - | its social discussion ... or 'on the panel' | ||
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| - | before clock struck 12 ;). | ||
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| - | Thanks for the promise of ' | ||
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| - | Or can we say, hey twitter is as basic as | ||
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| - | a telco or ad company. So ... | ||
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| - | this is EU totalitarian media control. | ||
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| - | UPDATE 1 | ||
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| - | FINAL CALL - SAVE THE WEB! AVOID A BRAVE NEW ONE | ||
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| - | tweet (with common dreams article 2013 and our podcast (mp4) | ||
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| - | (2m48s) on dutch ' | ||
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| - | Common dreams vs Google' | ||
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| - | https:// | ||
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| - | AND my podcast 2m48s january 2016 | ||
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| - | UPDATE 2 | ||
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| - | IT's HAPPENING, BB AWAKENS - IT's CALLED " | ||
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| - | neuromancer - we linked our minds to phones, web, | ||
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| - | social media, fb, twt, ggl+, ggl search | ||
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| - | cyberpunk & cyberculture - we lost our selves in | ||
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| - | new images of and for our selves - body, cities | ||
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| - | gothic | ||
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| - | cyberia - in the 80s and 90s we grew up with 70s | ||
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| - | westcoast ideals, open free press, media, tech | ||
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| - | 2005 half of ppl in west have broadband, always on | ||
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| - | internet access - 2009 twt and fb take off - the wall | ||
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| - | 2014-2016 bb - companies, legal persons, start | ||
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| - | acting for ... for the govt in west - m's case dig, | ||
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| - | yelp: ggl " | ||
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| - | feb16: " | ||
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| - | Met Police considers scrapping 1,000 neighbourhood | ||
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| - | PCSOs By Nick Beake Home Affairs Correspondent, | ||
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| - | BBC News - 9 September 2015 | ||
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| - | Read | ||
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| - | Aantal strafzaken bij rechtbanken gedaald | ||
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| - | (The Number of Criminal Cases in Holland Decreases) | ||
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| - | Read | ||
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| - | Gevangenissen in Nederland blijven maar leegstromen | ||
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| - | (Jails in Holland keep getting Emptier) | ||
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| - | Read | ||
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| - | Sociale netwerken en jeugdcriminaliteit: | ||
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| - | jongeren (Optimistic Feature on Social Networks | ||
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| - | and Youth Criminality) | ||
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| - | alternative | ||
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| - | druidry & restorative justice | ||
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| - | ------------------------------------------------ + | ||
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| - | KEY Q - The Q is... will the internet save society | ||
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| - | from crime when it is answering directly to govt | ||
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| - | or has a one-size-fits-all ' | ||
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| - | [more recent, written somewhat less chaotic ...] | ||
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| - | Digital Media Firms, Government & Freedom Nov2015-Jun2016 | ||
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| - | An Account of coming to terms with, and documenting, | ||
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| - | freedom & ' | ||
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| - | 22 issues discussed here ... | ||
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| - | SUMMARY - THE PROBLEM WITH THIS ARGUMENT | ||
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| - | So, what are we trying to tell you? | ||
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| - | o the westcoast ideals of open and free press, media | ||
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| - | are in danger. the govt is putting direct requests | ||
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| - | towards silicon valley internet giants to make | ||
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| - | the web more polite and avoid radicalisation | ||
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| - | o google by ways of its position (search, dns, and | ||
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| - | its plan to enforce safe ads and https) could | ||
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| - | create a safe, but NOT OPEN web 3.0 | ||
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| - | (and they' | ||
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| - | /open/ web, strangely enough) | ||
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| - | The trouble is that the facts around which the story | ||
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| - | above revolves is in a way a media story, and partially | ||
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| - | quite technical, and more a digital security story. | ||
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| - | So, we think, hardly anybody sees the story, or | ||
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| - | perceives the story this way (but it's more than | ||
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| - | merely a matter of perception, the web is changing!). | ||
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| - | So, finally (for now), say you are a cnet tech news | ||
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| - | reader... what are signs this is happening? | ||
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| - | o check out the red and blue underlined stories | ||
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| - | in this bookmark screenshot of cnet stories dec15-feb16 | ||
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| - | there are 4 or 5, plus 3 stories about pages getting | ||
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| - | kicked off facebook, in which it enforces its | ||
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| - | community standards regulation, which are very vague | ||
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| - | and strange in principle, considering facebook is | ||
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| - | used by a global audience without one-size-fits-all | ||
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| - | o you could, it's up to you, see that MORE stories | ||
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| - | than in the 3 months before dec15 (sep-nov15) | ||
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| - | have this 'let us (automatically) purge all | ||
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| - | aggression, unpoliteness (and terror) for you' | ||
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| - | THE PROBLEM - A LITTLE PURGE? ANY SIZE A PROBLEM! | ||
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| - | Concerning the web 3.0, we admit it's a small problem. | ||
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| - | We estimate that roughly 10-30 million personal | ||
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| - | freeform paid webpages exist (some webstats), These are mostly | ||
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| - | well-paid, well-positioned individuals. They have been or | ||
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| - | will be hit by google' | ||
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| - | afford to solve the problem and get a certificate. | ||
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| - | The worrying part is the freeform, mostly paid ' | ||
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| - | part of the websites, which we estimate to number 300 | ||
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| - | thousand. These are probably profiled to be ' | ||
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| - | by twitter and probably suffer from both this authority | ||
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| - | profiling and google' | ||
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| - | to 100 thousand, might even have been included in the | ||
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| - | 125 thousand deletion of radical accounts on twitter. | ||
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| - | A BIG PROBLEM? - WELL... IT'S CONTROL! | ||
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| - | The fact that just 2 suffer minor measures against 1 | ||
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| - | who are deleted would indicate the harshness of such | ||
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| - | a ' | ||
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| - | only depends on a chosen degree of acceptable speech. | ||
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| - | And speech /should/ be very free. Only direct threats to | ||
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| - | safety should matter. The rest /is/ state control. | ||
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| - | Govts in the west went from ... | ||
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| - | " | ||
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| - | digital snooping, says UN" tweet | ||
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| - | ... to (stealthy) control | ||
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| - | To be continued... | ||
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| - | Already here - ' | ||
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| - | 2016-02-27 | ||
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| - | Facebook wants to crack down against hate speech on migrants | ||
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| - | 2016-01-19 | ||
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| - | Facebook confronts online hate in Europe-wide campaign | ||
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| - | Trying to find a balance ... ;) | ||
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| - | Zuckerberg said: " | ||
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| - | Learning more about German culture and law has led us to change the | ||
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| - | approach," | ||
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| - | AND | ||
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| - | " | ||
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| - | grassroots movements that fight extremist views | ||
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| - | SO ... | ||
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| - | What's exactly, of people' | ||
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| - | To be continued ... | ||
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| - | 2016-03-27 | ||
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| - | First i kept thinking 'govt is obsolete', | ||
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| - | power like this. Then a switch, i thought that... /is/ | ||
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| - | corporatism at work! Does anybody see it this way too? | ||
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| - | Yes, this is a March 27th opinion article in The Guardian | ||
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| - | by Evgeny Morozov ... | ||
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| - | The state has lost control: tech firms now run western politics | ||
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| - | Heavy implications for justice, democracy, society! | ||
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| - | "Many httphosted zeldas and zorks vanished forever in the meantime!" | ||
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| - | Society irreversibly affected. Personal afterthought | ||
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| - | (originally on twitter) | ||
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| - | To be continued ... | ||
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| - | 2016-04-20 | ||
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| - | A leading journalism advocacy group said | ||
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| - | world press freedom | ||
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| - | deteriorated in 2015, especially in the | ||
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| - | Americas, warning of "a new era of propaganda" | ||
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| - | Read short report on World Press Freedom Index 2015 | ||
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| - | To be continued ... | ||
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| - | 2016-04-24 | ||
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| - | STOP ERDOGAN | ||
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| - | blijf met je klauwen van onze schrijvers | ||
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| - | Since EU's Tusk violated refugees' | ||
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| - | by telling people in wars to "stay home", we ... | ||
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| - | don't care much about the EU anymore. Making concessions | ||
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| - | to Turkey doesn' | ||
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| - | o france24 reported Turkey as sending refugees back, | ||
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| - | moving them, jailing them, where some suffered abuse. | ||
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| - | - basically a nation as unwelcoming to some as the EU itself | ||
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| - | o while turkey is suppressing free press, | ||
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| - | so how can EU know what it is dealing with it? | ||
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| - | - that's for sure, isn't it? | ||
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| - | you can go ask around, but the situation is such that | ||
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| - | strong language maybe can't be avoided in all cases | ||
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| - | so such an observer either excludes suppression | ||
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| - | or excludes turkey all together | ||
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| - | 2016-04-29 | ||
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| - | a formal analysis ... | ||
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| - | why i am so critical | ||
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| - | To be continued ... | ||
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| - | 2016-05-10 | ||
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| - | Facebook accused of leaving out CONSERVATIVE | ||
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| - | posts (not radical right, but directly right | ||
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| - | off-center) in trending, by an employee | ||
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| - | Facebook accused of leaving out CONSERVATIVE posts | ||
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| - | Facebook denies, for now - (read here) | ||
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| - | For certain, Facebook, and the other tech firms | ||
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| - | put themselves on this track, instigated | ||
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| - | by the French, German and US security-focused | ||
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| - | govs. Trust has been lost for certain. Already. | ||
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| - | Not even 6 months into this gov-silicon | ||
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| - | initiative. | ||
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| - | NB It has something /for/ it, something against. | ||
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| - | All issues have carers, you don't get to change | ||
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| - | all the carers' | ||
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| - | happens this way. | ||
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| - | This site focuses on how limiting expression | ||
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| - | damages progress in society however. | ||
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| - | 1) | ||
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| - | Freedom of expression could be like online | ||
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| - | privacy ... one should try to help the society | ||
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| - | make workable and realistic compromise. | ||
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| - | If all the techies hide in absolutism, the tech | ||
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| - | will be worse of, and society - Obama said | ||
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| - | something like that at Austin SXSW Con lately. | ||
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| - | 2) | ||
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| - | Westcoast tries to thread together the developments | ||
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| - | and paint a picture of it, to help transparancy, | ||
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| - | early warning for authoritarianism and things | ||
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| - | like cyberpunk' | ||
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| - | corporatism. We'll try to put up here what seems | ||
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| - | happening, almost happening and what position | ||
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| - | that brings us in, plain english, politically. | ||
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| - | (not: polite, not: safety focused) ... the internet | ||
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| - | can grow new systems, westcoast is not about | ||
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| - | ' | ||
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| - | ... communication better enter new stages as well. | ||
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| - | (and that's /for/ expression ;) peace & progress! | ||
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| - | To be continued ... | ||
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| - | 2016-05-15 | ||
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| - | As deletion and censorship incidents pile up this may16... | ||
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| - | Bloomberg radio news at 2016-05-15 19.00cet: | ||
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| - | tide is turning against ISIS both online and on the battle field | ||
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| - | Okay, that may be the military course that the West wants. | ||
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| - | But overhere, knowing what that means, /online/: it means | ||
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| - | sinking to the level of the most aggressive party on the West' | ||
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| - | side: Turkey (violence upon different own parties and media) | ||
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| - | A dutch politician, columnwriter and a publisher had their | ||
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| - | pages removed. Our guess says, based on xp, that is world | ||
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| - | news because these people have some kind of voice anyway | ||
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| - | (also without a facebook page). | ||
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| - | So we estimate: | ||
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| - | [10]min to [100]max times 10 waves [during Turkey' | ||
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| - | actions] times 40 countries | ||
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| - | means 4000 to 40,000 have probably been affected, | ||
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| - | without being involved in any kind of violence. | ||
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| - | That's the dark part of this online victory 'on ISIS'. | ||
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| - | The West's campaign is now based on war, violence | ||
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| - | /and/ suppression, | ||
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| - | to us, in /such measure/ (4000-40, | ||
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| - | We're happy there' | ||
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| - | But this is a dark month for freedom. | ||
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| - | To be continued ... | ||
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| - | 2016-05-16 | ||
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| - | Luckily, the day after having this dark perspective | ||
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| - | on the nature of the web and the role of the tech | ||
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| - | firms, the New York Times international (news paper) | ||
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| - | offered a more positive outlook: | ||
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| - | You could say: the tech firms transformed and | ||
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| - | are no longer a platform (my term) but | ||
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| - | are curators for news and entertainment | ||
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| - | Still means we lost neutrality and democracy though ;) | ||
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| - | To be continued ... | ||
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| - | 2015-05-19 | ||
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| - | Facebook ... acting (deletion 01, deletion 02) | ||
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| - | on behalf of aggressive ww3 effort partners or just | ||
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| - | not neutral, and highly unpredictable ... does it | ||
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| - | just /act/ like it's censoring a lot on behalf | ||
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| - | of Turkey? ;-) | ||
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| - | Here's more on the algorithms. | ||
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| - | The Real Bias Built In at Facebook - read here (NYTi) | ||
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| - | Algorithm that decides what goes in the feed ... | ||
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| - | values comments and sharing. All this suits cont// | ||
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| - | designed to generate either a sense of oversize delight | ||
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| - | or righteous outrage and go viral, hoaxes and | ||
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| - | conspiracies as well as baby pictures, happy | ||
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| - | announcements (that can be liked) and | ||
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| - | important news and discussions | ||
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| - | I can only say New York Times international | ||
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| - | (algorithms, | ||
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| - | transformed from platform to ' | ||
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| - | is a lot milder than us from time to time, or | ||
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| - | the Guardian, which posted an opinion item | ||
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| - | which said the gov already lost control to the tech | ||
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| - | firms. | ||
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| - | The state has lost control: tech firms now run | ||
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| - | western politics - read here (Guardian) | ||
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| - | Maybe safest to say is that the democracy | ||
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| - | has been killed in ' | ||
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| - | commerce, the illusion of security. | ||
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| - | And that while the idea of ' | ||
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| - | its citizens under the promise of Europe to use | ||
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| - | 'soft power' to make the world better. | ||
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| - | Now we're / | ||
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| - | know who to blame. The gov, the firms or some | ||
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| - | algorithm. Maybe 'the machines' | ||
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| - | movies were just not transparant enough too? :) | ||
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| - | To be continued ... | ||
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| - | 2016-05-20 | ||
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| - | Keeping the anti-police violence in France in mind, | ||
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| - | westcoast is not asking for revolution. It's just | ||
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| - | that the internet allows one to get up to speed | ||
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| - | on media freedom. Again, we do believe media freedom, | ||
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| - | new stages in communication is just as fundamental as | ||
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| - | actual freedom of speech. But revolution is too much, | ||
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| - | the internet has an intrinsic freedom, and the force | ||
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| - | behind it is the force of speech. It will not stop. | ||
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| - | The internet gives people an information advantage | ||
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| - | because the line from war/ | ||
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| - | defamation), | ||
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| - | freedom of speech online is short. The line is | ||
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| - | short and feedback on censorship is still doable | ||
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| - | and trustworthy (can you print that 404 Page not | ||
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| - | found for me?, and the likes). Although the matters | ||
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| - | on social networks are more graded (profile, | ||
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| - | algorithm, and provided audience). | ||
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| - | On twitter and facebook, and the web, it is very | ||
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| - | well possible to criticize in the form of quite | ||
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| - | technical or philosophical messages. | ||
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| - | Specific accusations or defamation can lead to | ||
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| - | prosecution, | ||
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| - | If your expression of discontent is about how you | ||
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| - | were treated by a certain party, be it religious, | ||
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| - | government, police, military, a relation or a | ||
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| - | criminal? The balance you want to strike is | ||
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| - | between a message that points to you, to resque | ||
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| - | you, and towards them, which endangers you more | ||
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| - | (again). | ||
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| - | We can only say, if you want to be unerasable. | ||
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| - | Don't seek for it on the internet, be that thing | ||
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| - | yourself, alive. Be a living insult towards war | ||
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| - | and force for example. But don't organize. | ||
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| - | Yes. You want to retreat. The rich retreat, | ||
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| - | the old retreat. Get both. Double retreat :). | ||
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| - | Speak from wisdom when you're young, be wise | ||
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| - | enough to sit back later and remember fondly. | ||
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| - | To be continued ... | ||
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| - | === | ||
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| - | Conclusion | ||
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| - | We would want to, but we can't change the nature | ||
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| - | of the Web as it is now: | ||
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| - | o the majority hardly leaves the social web | ||
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| - | o a large part of the rest of the web is | ||
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| - | accessed through apps and/or is commercial | ||
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| - | The westcoast ideals have faded: the 2013-2016 purge | ||
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| - | Looking at our own stats.... many brazil webpage hits | ||
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| - | indicates that google purged our sweet webpage. | ||
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| - | It has been on the Web since 1995 | ||
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| - | Everyone would do their own publishing. Now everyone | ||
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| - | is on the pages of a few commercial social media sites. | ||
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| - | International press freedom is in decline | ||
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| - | since 2013, so is freedom on the social media. | ||
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| - | Communication enters new stages of development. | ||
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| - | The affected freedom is no less fundamental | ||
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| - | than affecting actual speech. | ||
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| - | === | ||
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| - | Some | ||
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| - | conclusions, | ||
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| - | & the EU / tech firm agreement of 1st of june 'in the press' | ||
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| - | or ... in one line | ||
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| - | Thanks | ||
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| - | Grtz | ||
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| - | SF | ||
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| - | === | ||
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| - | Update 2016-10-29 A | ||
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| - | Germany' | ||
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| - | censorship questions surrounding tech firms' algoritmes | ||
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| - | (however, not the question of censorship by EU and | ||
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| - | the question of corporate action resulting in limitation | ||
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| - | of free speech and ... freedom of speech differences | ||
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| - | linked to profiling of users by the firms.) | ||
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| - | Merkel wants Facebook and Google' | ||
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| - | Update 2016-10-29 B | ||
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| - | Wired Magazine UK has a 6 page article on the problem | ||
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| - | that social media, comment sections online, etc face. | ||
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| - | It reports on studies into authoritarian regimes, the | ||
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| - | people that get into trouble, trolling, 'troll farms' | ||
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| - | And Google' | ||
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| - | which have the intention to study and automate, resp. | ||
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| - | The mentioned free speech activists and as we already | ||
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| - | were aware even trolling victims often dont want | ||
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| - | censorship, especially not automated. One feared the | ||
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| - | ' | ||
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| - | Wired coins the digital ' | ||
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| - | coined ' | ||
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| - | is an erosion of human rights (free speech), sense | ||
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| - | of justice, etc. Also important to discuss is how | ||
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| - | these devs affect sense of justice in people that | ||
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| - | are growing up now and never knew justice classic. | ||
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| - | https:// | ||
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| - | To be continued | ||
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| - | === | ||
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| - | PS Haven' | ||
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| - | but concerning the old Usenet, I tried it | ||
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| - | and ran into very clear problems ... and once | ||
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| - | again can sense some EU censor-trouble there | ||
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| - | the Usenet is an ancient ' | ||
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| - | really not that relevant, but i feel locked up | ||
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| - | if there' | ||
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| - | option to spam, in some sort of emergency :) | ||
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| - | This is the crude 1mb report on usenet censor EU | ||
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| - | (or NL, but it's probably the EU, so... censor EU) | ||
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| - | 1028_samhain16_usenet_post_REPORT_2part_censor_check_confirm_(1mb).zip | ||
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| - | Thinking again: so the Internet and the Web? | ||
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| - | ARE the same thing in EU | ||
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| - | My God - don't know where to turn... | ||
| - | |||
| - | So, westcoast-ideals -> we ' | ||
| - | |||
| - | === eof | ||
| - | |||
| - | (73 links in this page) | ||
| - | |||
| - | Appendix | ||
| - | |||
| - | The Web 1993-2016 - some web 1.0 and web 2.0 info | ||
| - | |||
| - | History of the Internet (in 2018 50 years old!) | ||
| - | |||
| - | History of the Web (in 2018 25 years old!) | ||
| - | |||
| - | the Web's most popular sites (wiki) | ||
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| - | the Web's most popular tech: WordPress (wiki) | ||
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| - | the 4 greatest, according to westcoast, sites | ||
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| - | ranking below the web giants of the top 25, | ||
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| - | ps. all less than 100m users | ||
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| - | pinterest - my own page | ||
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| - | |||
| - | |||
| - | wordpress.com | ||
| - | |||
| - | tumblr | ||
| - | |||
| - | some webstats (number of sites & xx) | ||
| - | |||
| - | === | ||
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| - | CLAIM | ||
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| - | We claim that nowhere on the web | ||
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| - | you find info like there is on | ||
| - | |||
| - | westcoast ideals - westcoast-ideals.com | ||
| - | |||
| - | it's critical, technical, political | ||
| - | |||
| - | and ideological - oriented at peace | ||
| - | |||
| - | and well documented thinking | ||
| - | |||
| - | (though it's becoming a bit like | ||
| - | |||
| - | those webpages with evergrowing | ||
| - | |||
| - | link-and-comment pairs of before ;) | ||
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| - | = | ||
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| - | MORE SITES WITH A CRITICAL MESSAGE | ||
| - | |||
| - | Back to westcoast-ideals home top of item | ||
| - | |||
| - | === | ||
| - | |||
| - | THESE ARE SOME WELL KNOWN SOURCES | ||
| - | |||
| - | ifex.org | ||
| - | |||
| - | indexoncensorhip.org | ||
| - | |||
| - | globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu | ||
| - | |||
| - | = | ||
| - | |||
| - | https:// | ||
| - | |||
| - | commitee to protect journalists | ||
| - | |||
| - | https:// | ||
| - | |||
| - | positive, not polarized, with | ||
| - | |||
| - | quality guest writers | ||
| - | |||
| - | https:// | ||
| - | |||
| - | quite decent, but quality info | ||
| - | |||
| - | https:// | ||
| - | |||
| - | lots of media censor watching | ||
| - | |||
| - | and some general free speech | ||
| - | |||
| - | news (section broad sheet) | ||
| - | |||
| - | https:// | ||
| - | |||
| - | always quality, has been | ||
| - | |||
| - | on the net forever | ||
| - | |||
| - | https:// | ||
| - | |||
| - | = | ||
| - | |||
| - | THESE SITES ARE MORE AMATEUR-ish | ||
| - | |||
| - | BUT QUITE COOL and worth checking out | ||
| - | |||
| - | connexions.org | ||
| - | |||
| - | popularresistance.org | ||
| - | |||
| - | panarchy.org | ||
| - | |||
| - | = | ||
| - | |||
| - | these sites are quite overpolarized | ||
| - | |||
| - | in war or anti war, imperialism, | ||
| - | |||
| - | or into conspiracy: | ||
| - | |||
| - | informationclearinghouse.info | ||
| - | |||
| - | inconvenienttruths.net | ||
| - | |||
| - | globalresearch.ca | ||
| - | |||
| - | seeingtheforest.com | ||
| - | |||
| - | === | ||
| - | |||
| - | MORE | ||
| - | |||
| - | greenteethmm.com | ||
| - | |||
| - | aim.org | ||
| - | |||
| - | academia.edu | ||
| - | |||
| - | thelucidlibertarian.blogspot.com - stopped in 2014 | ||
| - | |||
| - | kractivist.org - unav - Resource Limit Is Reached | ||
| - | |||
| - | variant.org.uk - free arts & culture | ||
| - | |||
| - | interaksyon.com - cool, philippino | ||
| - | |||
| - | washingtonsblog.com | ||
| - | |||
| - | alternativeway.net - # shop | ||
| - | |||
| - | trust.org - # foundation | ||
| - | |||
| - | sras.org - # school of russian and asian studies | ||
| - | |||
| - | scidev.net - # edu in s-afr | ||
| - | |||
| - | epic.org - el priv info centre | ||
| - | |||
| - | === eof | ||
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