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The Dark Side of Wikipedia
PR firms working under anonymous accounts, and others with conflicts of interest, learned how to game this system long ago. They’ve made more edits longer than any normal user can hope to accrue. Therefore, they always win the edit wars.
Repress U., Class of 2024
This is the future envisioned for America’s college campuses by the partisans of Repress U. It’s a future where what passes for “homeland security” takes precedence over higher learning, where order prevails over inquiry, and where counterinsurgency comes before community.
Microsoft Introduces Always-Watching Feature For Every PC
Recall’s most insidious aspect is the precedent it sets. If Microsoft can normalize such pervasive data collection under the guise of utility, what’s to stop other tech giants from following suit?
The Closing of the Internet Mind
The definition of online freedom has been depressingly constricted over the last thirty years.
2024 & the Inevitable Rise of Biometrics
They won’t ever remove the “old-fashioned” ways of accessing your accounts, but it will get increasingly slow and difficult to use while biometrics get faster and easier.
Google’s AI-First: Boosts Its Ability To Filter and Control Information
An ideologically driven monopoly further inserting itself between people and content, filtering out what it thinks you should be allowed to see (and what you shouldn’t) at a level never seen before. What could possibly go wrong?
In Search of the Great Canadian Terror
Canada’s Online Harms Act is packed with futuristic horrors, but with a few notable exceptions, politicians and media have tried to keep the worst parts hidden.
Welcome to the Surveillance Renaissance
Civil liberties are not just under threat; they’re on the chopping block. Cybercheck’s prowess in data mining could be weaponized to suppress free speech and keep tabs on political dissenters.
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