The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Call for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons These centralized choke-points can be used by governments to increase surveillance (as disclosed by the Snowden revelations), to blackout the Internet (e.g. Egypt, Syria, or San Francisco’s BART), or to restrict the activities of activist organizations (such as Wikileaks). It has now become clear that it is not enough to develop free/libre/open …
Micah Sifry: Progressive Activism Frustrated by Lack of Tools — And Refusal to Share… Review: The Big Disconnect – Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet)
Google and Facebook as the dark force… Silicon Valley should follow Google and create a $1bn journalism fund Matt McAlister of Publish.org The Guardian EXTRACT Europe has assumed the role of digital media regulator in the apparent absence of a moral compass within these platforms that exert increasing influence over our lives.
Good facilitation can help us hear each other in ways that free up our collective energy for change. Here is a provocative story about how nonviolence activists can use that power – and the spirit with which it needs to be used to be most effective. Listening for Change: A remarkable essay by a remarkable …
Reflecting on Eric Schmidt’s idiocy of yesterday, and the failure of Google to render useful tools enhancing public understanding and power, I asked a few folks what business Google was in, and how we should interpret their introducing of Google Fiber to major cities. The answer is: Google is in the business of mass surveillance, …
Continue reading “Robert Steele: What Business Is Google In? Mass Surveillance. Period.”
ROBERT STEELE: I am interested in hearing from anyone who wishes to share sources and perspectives relevant to the below planned work that has been commissioned for a 2016 publication. I am especially interested in having one or more major information technology companies in this space subsidize several months of research. Title: “Augmented Human Intelligence …
Understanding Trolls, Spam, and Nasty Content “From terrorist propaganda distributed by organizations such as ISIS, to political activism, diverse voices now use social media as their major public platform. Organizations deploy bots — virtual, automated posters — as well as enormous paid “armies” of human posters or trolls, and hacking schemes to overwhelmingly infiltrate the …
