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]
Congress drafts bill to create “national commission” for online content removal
The bill calls for a “federal social media task force to coordinate the government’s response to such issues.”
Web host Linode’s response to false DMCA notice censored investigative journalism
The DMCA is one of the biggest threats to free speech online.
Germany says Europe needs “digital border controls”, citing security, not censorship
Introducing powerful, blanket tools into the digital sphere is always a risky business in its own right.
Edward Snowden suggests Germany cooperated with the NSA
Snowden’s memoir, dubbed “Permanent Record,” describes Germany as a “primary example” of cooperation in NSA’s mass surveillance programs.
As user growth stagnates, Twitter turns to billboard ads
Twitter’s power to shape public opinion, coupled with its dwindling ability to make money, is a scary prospect.
China says Apple works with US authorities to “spy on ordinary users”
China could be firing a shot across the leading US tech giant’s bows that suggests: if your government plays its cards wrong, your future will exclude China’s lucrative 1+ billion market primed to spend disposable income on overpriced status symbols.
Canadian EasyDNS threatened with criminal action by German lawyer firm for not violating client privacy
In its response, easyDNS informed Fechner that it does business respecting Canada’s privacy law.
Facebook says it’s a publisher, invokes First Amendment rights to call Laura Loomer a “dangerous individual”
Facebook’s mind-boggling claim that its First Amendment rights allow it to ban users for exercising their own First Amendment rights – and that’s not even the only puzzling and contradictory point from the filing.
Strikefree Music provides AI-generated music that won’t get you punished by YouTube’s overzealous policies
If your livelihood as a creator depends on YouTube, you are probably aware that it can all be taken away all too easily, thanks to the video giant’s copyright infringement system.
Muslim-focused website SuperSisters ends counter-terrorism funding partnership with UK government
Readers are now expressing shock at the Home Office’s involvement.
Surgeon sues Googles over negative reviews of their business – Google says it’s their own fault
Google says that the exaggerated tone and type of self-promotion used by the doctor in his ads on Google’s platform were such that it “invited robust public criticism.”
Facebook is trying to trademark the word “BOOK” in Europe
The application has been accepted by the EUIPO and is currently being examined, with a decision expected at a later date.