Berto Jongman: China’s Smart City Prisons?
“Smart Communities” Turn People’s Homes into Prisons Residents are deprived of privacy and freedom, as the state watches their every move using big data, facial recognition, and invasive surveillance.
Stephen E. Arnold: MIT Technology Review on Amazon Ubber Alles — The New Deep State?
Meet America’s newest military giant: Amazon The Pentagon’s controversial $10bn JEDI cloud computing deal is one of the most lucrative defense contracts ever. Amazon’s in pole position to win—and its move into the military has been a long time coming. Stephen E. Arnold, a specialist in intelligence and law enforcement software, has used a series …
American Greatness: Post-Truth Politicized Education — the End of the American Experiment?
Living in a Post-Truth World Post-truth people in the media were taught that the concept of truth is obsolete. Postmodernism rules on American campuses today, and a core idea of the postmodernists is that claims to truth are meaningless. Politics is Crowding Out Culture and Childhood The realm of practical politics is eminently a realm …
Berto Jongman: Web 3.0 – Displacement of #GoogleGestapo?
Web 3.0: The Decentralised Web Promises to Make the Internet Free Again Edina Harbinja and Vasileios Karagiannopoulos Have you recently considered deleting your Facebook account, boycotting Amazon or trying to find an alternative to Google? You wouldn’t be alone. The tech giants are invading our privacy, misusing our data, strangling economic growth and helping governments …
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Penguin: Alternatives to Google Products
Alternatives to Google Products – the Complete List (2019) Restore Privacy, 24 June 2019 Alternatives, each described and linked, are provided in each of the following categories: Search, Email, Chrome, Drive, Calendar, Docs/Sheets/Slides, Photos, YouTube, Translate, Analytics, Maps, Play Store, Chrome OS, Android, Hangouts, Domains, Other. Our own work on displacing Amazon, Facebook, Google, MeetUp, …
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Trump Violating the Constitution [Robert Steele: While Failing to Defend the Constitution — 1st, 2nd, & 4th Particularly]
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Trump violates Constitution – Spends unappropriated funds, raises taxes on own Congresses and presidents accepted the Madisonian view that the federal government could only do what the Constitution affirmatively authorized it to do, and all remaining governmental tasks would be addressed by the states. This, too, was part of Madison’s genius in …
Berto Jongman: Information Operations Multiple Headlines
The Oligarch Threat Important for its focus on private intelligence & covert action. The weaponisation of information is mutating at alarming speed Important for analyzing true cost of losing privacy. An Approachable Look at the Human Domain and Why We Should Care Important for its focus on the neglected human domain.
