The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Manuel Castells Book Description This book is an exploration of the new forms of social movements and protests that are erupting in the world today, from the Arab uprisings to the indignadas movement in Spain, and the Occupy Wall Street movement in the US. While these and similar social movements differ in many important ways, …
“From SOPA and PIPA to ACTA to CISPA to the TPP and now back to CISPA, internet activists have been caught up in a deliberately bewildering game of whack-a-mole with freedom-crushing legislation. Now, ISPs are doing an end run around the whole legislative process altogether and voluntarily collaborating with the entertainment industry to spy on …
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Good thinking. Foreign Policy is getting better. The New Westphalian Web The future of the Internet may lie in the past. And that’s not a good thing. Nearly 365 years ago, more than 100 warring diplomats and princes got together in the cities of Münster and Osnabrück, in what is now northwestern Germany. There they …
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Half-full, glass is. Hillary Clinton Helps Silicon Valley on Her Way Out the Door Elizabeth Dwoskin BloombergBusinessWeek, 4 February 2013 Taking the podium in the State Department’s Ben Franklin Room one last time on Thursday before stepping down, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thanked lots of people, offered reminiscences, and announced a flurry of last-minute …
Mary Meeker releases stunning data on the state of the Internet Dylan Tweney VentureBeat, 3 December 2012 Mary Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, has just published her latest huge deck of amazingly useful data, the “2012 Internet Trends Year-End Update.” Meeker is delivering her report to a group of Students at Stanford …
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The Hypocrisy Threatening the Future of the Internet by Jean-Christophe Nothias – Editor GLOBAL, November 22, 2012 The upcoming World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) in Dubai looms as a moment of truth for the Internet’s governing rules and economic model. In all, representatives of 193 countries will come together to review the International Telecommunication …
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Source Phi Beta Iota: Another term of art is “Autonomous Internet.” A broader term that includes this one is “Liberation Technology.” See Also: Autonomous Internet (139) Liberation Technology (9)
