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]
MembersCancel culture and censorship thrive in a world where you stream or license everything and own nothing
? When you don’t own content, companies can delete, censor, edit, label and manipulate content based on changing sentiments.
MembersBrazil’s new “fake news” law is a threat to privacy and free speech – and it could signal what’s coming for the US and Europe
? Governments are increasingly looking to cut privacy to tackle “fake news”.
Google proposes internal changes, remove any gendered language and terms such as “blacklist” from code
The proposals had been made a while back and are this week getting new attention.
Study shows Facebook and Twitter are echo chambers but Reddit and Gab are not
Gab users are exposed to more diversity of opinions.
Facebook fact-checks WHO statements, but also uses WHO to fact-check others
Deciding to be the arbiter of truth was always going to end in disaster.
More German cities ditch Microsoft, move to open-source tech
Germany is the main country that’s focussed on making the transition.
Amazon accused of artificially boosting its own branded products
“It confuses consumers into thinking these products are more popular than they really are.”
Reddit announces even stricter moderation policies
Reddit takes further steps towards censorship.
Mainstream media accused of wanting protests to appear peaceful to the extent they ignore victims
Only social media gives the full picture.
LA Galaxy and Aleksandar Katai part ways after wife’s “Black Nikes Matter” Instagram posts and more
The decision was officially “mutual”.
Twitch closes account of cosplayer and body-paint artist Forkgirl
Twitch didn’t give a reason.
Japan’s new piracy law to crackdown on manga pirates and more
The bill has been changed several times and it’s about to become law.