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]
Open source NodeTube allows users to beat censorship and deploy their own YouTube alternative
More YouTube alternatives are finally popping up.
Financial Times reporter Mark Di Stefano suspended for reportedly snooping on rival news outlets
Di Stefano was in support of social media censorship at Buzzfeed before joining FT.
MembersHow Twitter enabled the legacy media’s war on memes
?Memes are now “manipulated media” or “hoaxes” according to mainstream media.
Harvard and Arizona law professors lay out the case for online “speech control”
“Significant monitoring and speech control are inevitable components of a mature and flourishing internet, and governments must play a large role in these practices to ensure that the internet is compatible with a society’s norms and values.”
YouTube and Twitter censor medical research center’s UV therapy after NY Times journalist probe
More mainstream media collusion with big tech.
Human rights activist Drew Pavlou smeared by Chinese propaganda as “anti-China rioter”
China isn’t happy about the way Pavlou is highlighting their human rights abuses.
Joe Biden memes are increasingly hard to post on Twitter
What could the reason be?
YouTube to allow advertisers to block keywords, will likely hurt creators’ income (even more)
“Brand-safe” content could soon be the only way to monetize on YouTube.
Zuckerberg wants more of your health data to fight the pandemic
Zuckerberg sees people are increasingly relying on big tech during the pandemic.
Facebook caves to state government, censors pro-protest groups
Whether you support the protests or not, the move has raised questions about threats to rights of assembly.
Bild editor roasts China after China is furious about being blamed for the pandemic
Julian Reichelt said other Western outlets are afraid to.
