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]
Google CEO Sundar Pichai: “There is a shared sense of what is objectively right”
Google is confident that it’s right, and operates as such.
Classic MTV shows from 1980s requested to be removed from Internet Archive on copyright grounds
Their time on the platform was short lived.
UN Secretary-General wages war on “contemptible memes”
Antonio Guterres may not know what memes are but he’s not a fan.
Twitter cracks down hard on “misinformation,” unless it comes from China
Twitter is pushing back against the State Department.
YouTube strips human rights activist Jennifer Zeng of income
Suggesting the origin of the coronavirus was China seems to be problematic for Google.
Rapper Zuby releases new single “OK Dude” on the back of Twitter censorship
The single dropped today.
Reporters pressure YouTube to remove more “conspiracy theory” videos
Journalists used to tirelessly campaign for earning people the right to speak. Now they do the opposite.
altCensored helps catalog the videos YouTube doesn’t want you to see
Alternative tech is rising.
MPAA moves against GitHub repositories that contain no copyrighted content. Again.
The MPAA either doesn’t understand what it’s doing or it’s being purposely disingenuous.
Google vs Bitcoin
The Bitcoin community is waiting with bated breath for Google to move against it. All the warning signs are already here.
FCC commissioner isn’t happy with Facebook’s new “speech police”
Facebook’s new Oversight Board isn’t getting the warm welcome it thought it was going to get.
Riot commits to tackling “toxic” language in upcoming Valorant
Language control is active in gaming as much as anywhere else these days.