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Prohibitionists Speak
Tagged with: cannabis, Constitution, drug abuse, drug use, drugs, free speech, freedom, government, Internet, journalism, journalism code of ethics, law, law abuse, law enforcement, liberty, marijuana, psychedelics, right to know
Posted in Respect Cannabis
Posted in Respect Cannabis
Future Filter
Information filtering is a big deal, but common sense dictates that it’s going to become a much bigger issue and industry — and thankfully create a lot of jobs for our species. Algorithms (e.g. search engines) are largely responsible for…
Tagged with: algorithms, curation, information, information management, Internet, journalism, technology
Posted in TechYes
Posted in TechYes
Ad(d) Hypocrisy
Prompted by “Online Ad Czar Berates Adblockers As Freedom-Hating ‘Mafia’”: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/01/26/1720217/online-ad-czar-berates-adblockers-as-freedom-hating-mafia Randall Rothenburg, the president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has made a speech branding the creators of Adblock Plus (who were banned from the conference where…
Tagged with: advertising, communications, computer security, computers, freedom, freedom of speech, health, information, Internet, liberty, mainstream media, privacy, security, software, stress, stress management, technology
Posted in TechYes
Posted in TechYes
Internet Nations
Prompted by “The Perfect Storm in Digital Law”: http://alistapart.com/article/the-perfect-storm-in-digital-law National Internet borders are coming, at least based upon common sense — and that’s obviously not a good thing, because it defies convenient international organization of the masses to form a…
Tagged with: freedom, freedom of speech, futurism, government, Internet, language, law, liberty, linguistics, science, scientific method, small business, small business owner, technology
Posted in Liberty Shield, TechYes
Posted in Liberty Shield, TechYes
Filter Community
Prompted by “Does the Internet Spur Social Change, Or Lazy Activism?”: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/12/25/1446245/does-the-internet-spur-social-change-or-lazy-activism It’s been long established that people are surrounded by a “filter bubble” online, where they’re only exposed to viewpoints they already agree with. There’s also the question of…
Tagged with: activism, education, entertainment, harm, Internet, justice, language, law, liberty, politics, science, scientific method, social networking
Posted in Liberty Shield
Posted in Liberty Shield
Monitoring Your Future
Prompted by “OmniCISA Pits DHS Against the FCC and FTC on User Privacy”: https://www.justsecurity.org/28386/omnicisa-pits-government-against-self-privacy/ So this bill isn’t just about threat information sharing, it’s about enabling ISP monitoring in ways beyond current law that have not been clearly defined or…
Tagged with: Constitution, Democrat Party, futurism, government, Internet, law, liberty, privacy, progressivism, Republican Party, terrorism
Posted in Liberty Shield, TechYes
Posted in Liberty Shield, TechYes
Internet Control
Prompted by “How Putin Tried To Control the Internet”: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/10/14/1629207/how-putin-tried-to-control-the-internet In this excerpt from the recently published The Red Web, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan describe how the Kremlin has been trying to rewrite the rules for the internet to…
Tagged with: Constitution, Declaration of Independence, education, first amendment, freedom of speech, government, Internet, law, liberty, oligarchy, technology
Posted in Liberty Shield, TechYes
Posted in Liberty Shield, TechYes
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