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Australia Announces Plan to Ban Working Cryptography at Home and in the US, UK, New Zealand, and Canada (Total madness, BoingBoing)
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How Inequality Makes Our Government Corrupt and Our Democracy Weak (Important read by Matt Stoller, The Washington Post)
CNN Journalists Resign: Latest Example of Media Recklessness on the Russia Threat (Great article on the fake news industry, Glenn Greenwald writing at The Intercept)
The Rise of the Thought Leader (Really interesting, The New Republic)
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Twitter is Looking for Ways to Let Users Flag Fake News, Offensive Content (This would be the end of Twitter, The Washington Post)
Special Report: How the Federal Reserve Serves U.S. Foreign Intelligence (The financial arm of empire, Reuters)
The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence (Welcome to the new Feudalism, The New York Times)
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My Recent Interview with Adam Meister About Everything Crypto Coin (YouTube)
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Re #3, Matt Stoller and WaPo
What a guy!
Now i only can wonder how he practically wants to implement his trivia.
If “public sector” is already corporately owned, how can he make that very “public sector” starts controlling and cutting “corporate sector” to size?
Except for calling Raul Castro to rule.
Re #1, Cory Doctorow at /. and Boing
It is like doping drugs, while having disastrous long term effects, they may give real boost short term.
When CD looks at this from a peaceful netizen perspective, that is bordering with insanity, okay. In a span of 10-20 years it would make online business and software development in English-speaking states handicapped to the brink of existence.
But is there any problem in it?
What did you say, “brace for impact”?
If impact is inevitable, then maybe you can at least steer to the chosen place of impact?
If your car slides on icy road out of control, where would you like it to top, on the opposite traffic lane, on some light pole on thw shoulder, or in the snow field over the shoulder?
If the Empire of English-speaking nations is going to WW3 as their chosen target to impact, then mandating total control over citizens communication is not a stupidity but the only rational and unavoidable choice they have to make no matter if they or voters like it or not.
If I may hijack this thread to white knight a little bit…
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