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]
YouTube appears to be breaking DMCA law, experts say
YouTube cites DMCA when taking down content but doesn’t follow DMCA conventions.
Profreehost suspends a developer’s account just for hosting an open source torrent software
“Torrents and torrent related content is strictly prohibited on our service.”
Now Firefox’s add-ons disaster has been fixed, can Mozilla earn back user trust?
Even Firefox’s most loyal fans are annoyed.
The public removal of Instagram’s likes will hurt “influencers” and make Facebook more money
Advertisers will rely more on Facebook’s official ads instead of paying influencers directly.
German Justice Minister sets her sights on Amazon Alexa privacy
She called Amazon’s vaguely-worded privacy policy “unacceptable”.
Ex-Reddit CEO suggests conservative subreddits like “The Donald” shouldn’t exist
Pao hasn’t lost her love for the ban hammer.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez supports Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up big tech
AOC described Facebook is “communications, advertising, and surveillance platform”.
Journalism institute tries to get 29 Conservative news websites blacklisted
Breitbart, Alliance Defending Freedom, and the Washington Examiner are among those named as “unreliable,”
Golden is a new Wikipedia competitor, determined to fix the problems Wikipedia creates
It’s not perfect but the more competition in this space the better.
China: mobile app sucks up data from citizens in the Xinjiang region – apps, religious beliefs, VPN access and more
Everyone’s behavior is under a microscope.
A Reddit user proves he was banned from a subreddit because of racist mods
A Reddit user was banned and told “no whites allowed”.
New survey shows Facebook is trusted more than Dropbox
Perhaps putting all of your files on someone else’s computer without end to end encryption gives everyone reason to be suspicious.