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]
New lawsuit says YouTube’s algorithm is racially profiling
Another lawsuit we don’t expect to go anywhere.
An army of keyboard warriors is being recruited to mass report anti-vaccine social media posts
The group of self-described moderators will take it upon themselves to flag anti-vaccine posts to platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
Count Dankula considers taking wrongful conviction after “offensive joke” to European Court of Human Rights
Dankula’s audience wants him to give it a try.
Geeks and Gamers’ Jeremy suspended on Twitter after posting The Last of Us 2 memes
Twitter continues to allow Sony to abuse the DMCA system.
Twitter is an echo chamber of insanity and it’s impacting academia
Studies that get tweeted out end up getting cited more.
Big Tech donated to the wrong “Black Lives Matter”
They instead donated to a group that aims to bring “the community and police closer together” – something we all know Big Tech doesn’t support.
MembersMany apps on your phone have pivoted to selling your location data to coronavirus researchers and others
? And the companies aren’t always disclosing it.
College presidents are reminded that, actually, “hate speech” is free speech
A college president has been schooled after telling students to mind what they’re posting online.
Devin Nunes’ attempt to censor “cow” parody account, instead gave it 700,000 more followers
Trying to censor a parody account was met with the Streisand effect.
Coronavirus lockdowns have decimated small businesses, but Big Tech is booming
The havoc that multi-month lockdowns have wreaked on economies around the world is only starting to become apparent and will take a long time to be fully understood, but not everyone is emerging as a loser from this unprecedented crisis. There’s been a massive transfer of wealth from small busi
Cenokga, game developer of Starclaw, apologizes after threatening DMCA abuse to silence negative review
Another example of the DMCA being abused for censorship.