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]
Apparently, if you don’t want to install a coronavirus tracking app you’re a bad person
An Australian news site tries to shame people who don’t want to be traced.
David Icke interview removed from Spotify after CNBC complains
Spotify is the latest tech company to censor Icke.
PA Governor Wolf didn’t get the memo, says social media is “forum for the exercise of First Amendment rights”
Big tech platforms are hardly a place for free speech.
YouTube to reportedly cement its allegiance with corporate publishers by facilitating subscriptions
YouTube to favor mainstream news publishers once again.
Tumblr to delete all reblogs of “hate speech”
Tublr is taking the risky move of increasing censorship even more.
UK security agency blacklists the terms “blacklist” and “whitelist” to “stamp out racism”
Now it’s “allow list” and “deny list.”
Surveillance is going viral
Rights are being eroded.
Daily Mail caught manipulating photo to create rage bait
More manipulation from the internet’s most trusted sources.
MeWe is next on the media’s hitlist after allowing organization of anti-lockdown protests
Media are framing the content on the platform as encouraging people to “break state or local laws.” Yet, the protests aren’t illegal.
Facebook censors Somali journalists critical of their government
Journalists in the country are now increasingly unable to keep citizens informed.