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]
Marc Benioff calls for abolishing Section 230, while forgetting Salesforce is currently using it as a defense
Salesforce lawyers are probably wishing Benioff would keep quiet.
Facebook was censoring comments on Mark Zuckerberg’s “free speech” livestream
Facebook uses “ranking signals” to derank content that it doesn’t like.
Apple CEO Tim Cook meets with China’s regulators about “fulfilling corporate social responsibility”
Apple is also looking into expanding investment in China.
GitLab commits to working with all companies, regardless of politics or values
GitLab is taking a different stance to some of its competitors.
UK Conservative government considers scrapping TV license fee for optional Netflix-style subscription
In the country, the license fee is currently mandatory.
Some “informal” UK telecoms infrastructure somehow relies on Yahoo Groups, now it’s going away
The Oftel Yahoo Group wis being used for managing UK phone number assignments.
UK’s controversial porn block plans officially canceled
The problematic plans have faced numerous delays.
Google Play removes WireGuard VPN app for including donation link
Is Google cracking down on donations because it can’t take a cut?
Twitter to prevent likes, retweets, and replies on some tweets from Trump and other world leaders
The change could throttle one of the main lines of communication between President Trump and the public.
Colleges are secretly using social media data to rank applicants
Many have privacy concerns.
Snowden defends encryption
He argues that all these countries, instead of strengthening encryption, seem to be looking for ways to degrade it.
Google rejects uBlock Origin from Chrome Web Store
This has been a controversial and upsetting development in the works for a while now.