Didi Rankovic
Didi Rankovic is an experienced online journalist, editor, and translator, with a career spanning over ten years writing for major a English-language website in Serbia, and previously working as translator for international organizations and peacekeepers in the Balkans. Rankovic is passionate about free and open source tech and is a head contributor for Reclaim The Net, focusing on lead stories. [email protected]
NY Mayor outlines new facial recognition surveillance push
Another city increasing surveillance.
Canada announces plans to freeze Freedom Convoy protesters’ bank accounts
“Emergency powers.”
The media is already demanding the metaverse be censored for “misinformation”
In the offline world, there’s no Big Tech giant listening to your every word, ready to police your conversations. The media wants the metaverse to be different.
Medusa is an open-source Shopify alternative
A new, more open, competitor.
Bluesky goes official as a public benefit company, adds Jack Dorsey to the board
The project is expected to be an open social media protocol.
Britain’s schools, towns, and police forces are filled with Uyghur-linked surveillance
Britain is one of the most surveilled countries in the world.
The EARN IT act is back for a second attempt to ban private messaging
A back door to your messaging apps.
Nadine Dorries is killing comedy
The UK Culture Secretary wants to ban offensive jokes.
UK wants to ban speech that is “knowingly false,” could cause “non-trivial” “emotional harm”
A vaguely worded dangerous proposal to kill what’s left of free speech in the country.