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]
France is pushing a new law forcing social platforms to remove “hate speech” in 24 hours
No one can agree on what it is, but France wants it banned.
Big tech’s ironic defense against regulation: it would kill free speech
Big tech companies have already begun a campaign of censorship in recent years. However, when the UK government threatens to mandate removing content even when it’s legal, tech companies seem to want to push back.
Google manipulates search results after mass shootings, Google engineer reveals
It’s just one of the many examples of Google changing the search results for political or social purposes.
Tony Blair calls on the UK government to create effective online ID system
The unpopular former Prime Minister, now lobbyist, wants everyone in the UK to have an online ID.
Church of England launches social media guidelines to combat “cynicism and abuse”
The Archbishop of Canterbury made the announcement today.
Facebook says it’s preparing its “civil rights task force” for 2020
Facebook hasn’t yet realized that maybe it itself is the “interference” that should be kept away from the election or the census.
Elizabeth Warren calls for more big tech censorship to stop “vile lies”
Warren has called for the breaking up of big tech but it seems she’s more interesting in using tech companies to her own advantage.
Larry Sanger, Wikipedia co-founder, calls for a Declaration of Digital Independence
Sanger outlines the problems with the modern web.
Nintendo is still damaging creators and YouTube is allowing it
Nintendo is up to its old tricks, almost wiping out creators’ entire businesses at the click of a button, and forcing the takedown of content they have no legal right to take down.
Democrats say Facebook is “not doing enough” ahead of the 2020 election
The terms “fake news” and “misinformation” are thrown around.
Facebook is creating its own “Supreme Court” oversight board for content
Facebook are working on deciding who should be allowed to decide what content is allowed on Facebook.
Western governments issued a “Regin” malware attack on Russia’s Yandex service, Reuters reports
Spokesperson for Yandex, Ilya Grabovsky, confirmed the incident.