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 complying with Turkish government censorship requests
Turkish courts are invoking Twitter’s Country Withheld Content (CWC) tool to block accounts.
Health research site Examine.com has been battered by Google’s search algorithm, wiping 90% of its traffic
The website thinks it’s been accidentally caught in the crossfire of Google algorithm changes.
Washington Post calls Bernie conspiracy theorist for suggesting pro-Bezos bias
Bernie says he always criticizes Amazon and thinks that’s why he always gets negative stories from The Washington Post.
Twitter employees describe CEO Jack Dorsey as Forrest Gump-like and indecisive
Others still describe him as “introverted, conflict averse, speaking in riddles,” and, “not as aggressive as Facebook’s Zuckerberg or Google’s Page.”
UK’s plans to fine web hosts for hosting “objectionable” content – will only be enforced for two weeks
When the UK is free of the EU, the country can start to make its own laws.
Niantic won’t let Pokémon Go users delete their accounts and remove their data
Everything they’re doing in the name of a lawsuit seems to go against the GDPR.
Marco Rubio blames Russian bots for Epstein conspiracies
Ironically, perhaps blaming everything on Russian bots is a conspiracy in itself.
Google to provide extra Chrome security, but only if you give them your data
Once again, Google is trying to get you to sign in and sync your data with their servers.
Amazon cuts off service to Iran, preventing citizens from using proxies and VPNs, citing US Sanctions
Since much of Iran’s internet is locked down, citizens were relying on US tech companies to run VPNs and proxies to open the free and open internet.
67 percent of Americans believe big tech companies have behaved anticompetitively
More people that ever think big tech companies should face antitrust scrutiny.
Slack upgrades its security but still refuses to implement end-to-end encryption
Digital rights groups are pressuring Slack to fix it, but they don’t have it on the road map saying their customers don’t think it’s important.
Democratic Committee exposed private email addresses of 6.2 million Americans
The data was exposed for years.