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]
Naomi Wu reflects on deplatforming, online silencing, and irresponsible reporting
The influencer and DIY maker has seen it all.
Google begins testing changes that will eventually break ad blockers on Chrome
The end of the road is in sight for the current crop of ad blockers in Chrome, unless significant changes can be made.
Like YouTube, now Instagram wants to pay celebs to create content
Platforms seem interested in keeping celebs happy on the platform.
Newly discovered Facebook privacy flaw could harm those escaping abusers
Facebook says it’s not a bug.
Old Disney movies to get a politically correct makeover for new streaming service Disney Plus
The movies will be edited to fit within the modern era.
Twitch thinks this emote is “sexual content”
It raises the issue of Twitch’s wonky moderation practices.
Cancel culture taints The Linux Foundation, developer publicly disinvited from event over political opinions
Deplatforming is on the rise.
Gfycat demands compensation from Archive Team that archived their content in a way that is “not legal”
“We have stopped the project” an Archive Team member said.
YouTuber Markiplier reacts to hundreds of his fans getting their accounts wrongly closed by YouTube
YouTube have yet to correct the issue.
Wired foes full Karen on Urban Dictionary in bizarre hitpiece
Everything is “problematic” these days.
Facebook will gray out what it thinks is “false information” through the UK general election
Facebook’s fact-checkers are independent organizations, so it is at their discretion who and what they choose to investigate.
8kun owner Jim Watkins files criminal complaint against 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan for libel
The suit accuses Brennan of a personal vendetta.