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]
Twitter is complicit in censorship on behalf of Indian government
Twitter is complying with orders to withhold tweets.
AG William Barr makes his case for a domestic surveillance system to tackle “potential mass shootings”
The memorandum also reveals that the US now plans to put to use domestically its post 9/11 anti-terrorism experience, in the past applied in other countries.
Publishers sign up to continue their abusive relationship with Facebook
Publishers sign up to Facebook News, despite how they’ve been treated in the past.
Firefox for MacOS fixes problematic performance and power issues
If you are running Firefox on a macOS device and are affected by high power consumption, you’re now in luck.
According to Netflix documentary by Vox, Reddit, 4chan, Gab and Bodybuilding.com are “cult-like”
But the film doesn’t at all delve any deeper into why or how this may be the case.
Megan Phelps-Roper’s new book Unfollow is an ode to free speech and shows the danger of Twitter censorship
Phelps-Roper’s testimony shows just how important free speech online is.
UK police to start monitoring Twitter for “hate tweet” pre-crimes
The UK is aspiring to be China.
Hollywood is taking over YouTube, at the expense of independent creators
YouTube is bankrolling celebs.
Internet Archive adds web page snapshots and other new features
These new features include the possibility of clicking on the “changes” link at the top of the interface to compare two snapshots of the same page.
Imgur will stop displaying NSFW subsections from Reddit on its site
Imgur says these pages put its business “at risk”.
Crusader Kings 3 may remove all references to phrase “Deus Vult” because of “vile memes”, blog suggests
Something of a crusade against the Crusades is currently underway in the gaming world.
Congress to vote on CASE Act – a law that would enable censorship through copyright claims
Copyright trolls would benefit from the situation.