The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Digital Grab: Corporate Power Has Seized the Internet Norman Solomon Ethical Technology Posted: Jun 14, 2013 If your daily routine took you from one homegrown organic garden to another, bypassing vast fields choked with pesticides, you might feel pretty good about the current state of agriculture. If your daily routine takes you from one noncommercial …
Rebecca MacKinnon 4.0 out of 5 stars an excellent overview of the ideas and forces shaping Internet policy debates globally January 25, 2012 By Adam Thierer MacKinnon’s book is well-researched exploration of the forces driving Internet developments and policy across the globe today. She serves up an outstanding history of recent global protest movements and …
Evgeny Morozov 5.0 out of 5 stars Intellectual Recycling and Internet-Centrism, a tale of Cyber-Utopia Gone Really Wrong, November 30, 2012 Abhinav Agarwal (Bangalore, India) Dunks a much needed, well-reasoned, and well-researched bucket of cold-water over “Internet-centrists” and “cyber-utopians” (cyber-utopianism is a “naïve belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication”), and assembles together an …
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The $10 cell phone has arrived – and with it, economic opportunity By Channtal Fleischfresser | March 18, 2013, 3:10 AM PDT On a recent trip to Shenzhen, China, a group of MIT students discovered that you can buy a cell phone there for as little as $10. While the cost of mobile phones has …
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Brazil Squanders Chance At Geopolitical Influence; Kills Internet Rights Bill In Political Fiasco Infopolicy: Yesterday, the Brazilian parliament effectively killed the much-heralded Internet Bill of Rights, the Marco Civil, that had been praised by entrepreneurs and free-speech activists worldwide. This follows a ridiculous watering-down and dumbing-down of the bill, at the request of obsolete industry lobbies. …
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Introducing MondoNet: The censor-proof, unsurveillable network Aram Sinnreich A few weeks ago, I gave a talk at TEDxUSC, in which I laid out the basic argument for MondoNet, a new project I’m working on with a few of my grad students at Rutgers. My basic point is that, despite the many amazing cultural, economic and political uses …
Libya Internet is down again, according to Google tool March 4, 2011 | 10:22 am Los Angeles Times Libya has shut off the Internet again, according to a Google monitoring tool. As of about 8 a.m. PST Thursday (or 6 p.m. in Tripoli, Libya’s capital), the nation’s Internet traffic began to flatline, and has been at zero …
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