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]
The Authors Guild demands National Emergency Library be shut down
Copyright maximalists take aim at libraries.
Wikipedia introduces new rules to fight “toxic” behavior
If anything, “toxicity” is the least of Wikipedia’s problems.
Valve releases alpha build of censored Steam client for the Chinese market
Corporations can’t resit the Chinese market, even if it means having to censor.
Google takes aim at QAnon apps
Why the sudden crackdown?
US Big Tech companies continue to work with blacklisted Chinese companies, power human rights violations
Research shows companies aren’t adhering to the blacklist.
Joe Rogan opposes YouTube’s censorship of doctors, “let people discuss and debate”
“I don’t think it’s a healthy way to handle things.”
Apple whistleblower says Siri is always recording
The whistleblower says Siri listens even when you haven’t triggered her.
MembersThe media have a strained relationship with Facebook but they still want it to police the internet
? The love-hate relationship continues.
Netflix caught censoring Back To The Future Part 2 scene
An increasing problem with streaming services.
YouTube and Facebook remove video from Professor Dolores Cahill who criticized lockdowns
Cahill is from the School of Medicine at University College Dublin.
YouTube Select is YouTube’s move to gain more premium advertisers and force creators to be “brand safe”
Ad revenue will be funneled to “brand safe” creators.
Does Big Tech censorship ultimately fail, giving more legitimacy to the content it tries to hide?
Recently-censored Patrick Bet-David suggests it does.