Pai’s Destroying Internet Adoption, Not Just Net Neutrality By Matt Wood, Free Press. November 3, 2020 Pai’s Destroying Internet Adoption, Not Just Net Neutrality2020-11-032020-11-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/pai_0.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Ajit Pai. Gage Skidmore/Flickr. Washington, DC (October 29, 2020) – During Tuesday’s FCC open meeting, I was tweeting about the failures and falsehoods in the agency’s latest open-internet vote — a decision that involves so much more than just Net […]
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Trump FCC Turned The Internet Into A ‘Wild West’ For The Telecoms By Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. November 2, 2020 Trump FCC Turned The Internet Into A ‘Wild West’ For The Telecoms2020-11-022020-11-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/telecom.jpg200px200px Five years ago, the movement for internet freedom won an important victory when the Federal Communications Commission reclassified the internet as a common carrier, making it like a utility that everyone should have […]
West Ham United staged an incredible comeback to claim a dramatic draw against London rivals Tottenham Hotspur, with a spectacular long-range strike from Manuel Lanzini as the Hammers came back from 3-0 down to draw 3-3. Tottenham, featuring loan signing Gareth Bale in their squad for the first time, appeared to be cruising to all three points after they raced into a 3-0 lead thanks to […]
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign media director Zerlina Maxwell was ridiculed online for seemingly mixing metaphors, and trying to present conservative Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s face mask as a “dystopian” symbol. Maxwell, now an MSNBC contributor, tweeted a picture on Tuesday of Amy Coney Barrett wearing a medical mask at her Senate confirmation hearing on Monday. The commentator also added two screen grabs from the […]
This is a preview of Right Richter, our newsletter about the extreme right wing. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox, sign up for it here. It’s hard to stress how much effort the pro-Trump media has devoted over the last year-and-half to John Durham. The top federal prosecutor in Connecticut with a bushy, meme-ready goatee, Durham was appointed by Bill Barr in May 2019 […]
Samara Mayhub, a Syrian postgraduate student at Samara University, has won a Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant to develop special software systems to detect Internet network anomalies, including preventing hacker attacks, the university press service said. Samara Mayhub is going to deal with the problem of insufficient Internet network bandwidth, which is especially important for those who have switched to remote work and study due […]
According to a Tuesday memorandum by Donald Trump’s medics, the president, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 late on Thursday night, is feeling “extremely well” and shows no symptoms. Surgeon Dr Atul Gawande outlined how he sees President Trump’s current state of health during a Tuesday appearance on “The View”, going on to assert that POTUS had been discharged from the hospital prematurely. “He is still contagious”, Gawande said. […]
A recent report by the Swedish Defence Research Agency has indicated an incidence of “anti-Semitic stereotypes and tropes” on social media. Thirty-five percent of the posts about Jews turned out to be negative, and a lot of them deal specifically with Jews in power. Following a report by the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) indicating a proliferation of online theories about Jews wielding influence and power […]
Donald Trump’s fondness for Twitter is no secret, and it seems his Covid-19 quarantine hasn’t slowed him down much; he posted 18 tweets in under an hour on Monday, prompting humorous speculation about possible drug side-effects. Trump’s Twitter day started early on Monday when he began quoting from the ‘Fox & Friends’ morning show, and it continued as he blasted out several all-caps tweets. Most of […]
Saturday marked the 30th anniversary of German reunification, when the German Democratic Republic, colloquially known as East Germany, formally ceased to exist and was incorporated into the Federal Republic. German officials past and present have credited Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for his efforts in making the dream of German unity a reality. Internet users had some unflattering things to say about a new statue dedicated to […]
Saturday marked the 30th anniversary of German reunification, when the German Democratic Republic, colloquially known as East Germany, formally ceased to exist and was incorporated into the Federal Republic. German officials past and present have credited Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for his efforts in making the dream of German unity a reality. Internet users had some unflattering things to say about a new statue dedicated to […]
The internet of today isn’t the independent territory it was originally imagined to be. For ordinary people “the internet” is just a bunch of apps made by giant companies. These companies do whatever they want with your data, disappear when the journey is over, spy on you and show you ads. I’m honestly not sure why people even bother trying to come up with dystopian futures […]
Brace yourself for a concept that will feel jarring, an idea that will clash with everything you know about 2020, and a philosophy that will feel downright unthinkable: Optimism. Many internet 2030 scenarios are bleak. (See other entries in our “Internet 2030” series). Here we imagine a brighter online future: What if we “owned our identity,” meaning you have some kind of digital passport (or wallet) […]
If the internet was a person, ARPANET was its first tooth, Facebook was the pubescent rage of middle school and Bitcoin was the key to its first car. Today, we find ourselves riding shotgun, unsure of what direction the internet will take next. There are those who feel we’re about to careen off a cliff, and others who write off the internet’s dangers as inevitable growing […]
Alas, the truth has done little to dissuade QAnon believers from the fictions of their conspiracy mythology. Unsurprisingly, the “Pizzagate” conspiracy that was QAnon’s forerunner should have fallen apart when an adherent wielded an assault rifle in a Washington pizzeria because he believed Hillary Clinton and her associates were running a child sex ring in its basement. The gunman found no Clinton, no children and no basement – […]
Privacy tech company Aleo has launched a data privacy-oriented blockchain and developer kit to make writing zero-knowledge proofs in web applications easy and scalable. The startup is releasing its first round of software tools to let developers write private applications for the web using a new programming language called Leo, as well as integrate these tools into pre-existing browsers’ functions. “I think it’s become very clear […]
Kamala Harris did not step off of her private plane on her way to visiting the scene of a devastating California wildfire so much as she bounced. The Vice Presidential nominee did so in Timberland boots, drawing a wave of online cheers and boos, in what might be the first true sartorial scandal of the Biden/Harris campaign. On one side came the praise, heaped on by […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/10/1080474564_0:0:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_d5b758876e8915536ca87b34ac57b47d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sangeeta Yadav. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202009161080476926-b-towns-highest-paid-actor-akshay-kumar-breaks-the-internet-with-laxmmi-bomb-teaser-fans-in-frenzy/ ‘Laxmmi Bomb’ is a remake of the Tamil movie Muni 2: Kanchana by Raghava Lawrence who has also directed its Hindi adaptation. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film will release directly online at Disney+Hotstar on 9 November 2020. Superstar Akshay Kumar, the Forbes 2020 Top 10 Highest Paid Male Actors in the world, has dropped the […]
Political and social upheaval around the world can lead to internet censorship and interference by powerful actors. The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is allowing people around the world to monitor internet censorship and interference in their countries in a decentralized manner for free. It has created the world’s largest open dataset on internet censorship, with millions of measurements collected from more than 200 countries […]
“Web 2.0 is broken”: It’s arguably the most important thesis driving innovation across the world of crypto as entrepreneurs tout visions of a Web 3.0 that re-emphasizes the internet’s founding ideals of freedom and empowering prosperity. In 2020, that vision has deviated from its original course in well-documented ways: the capture of web infrastructure by a handful of dominant tech giants, the rise of “surveillance capitalism,” […]
US President Donald Trump has faced both mockery and concern over his stumbles on ramps and stairs, and now social media has posted video of Trump slurring his speech and failing to keep his balance while walking. A new Twitter hashtag, #TrumpIsNotWell, is trending on Saturday after social media users raised concern over the president’s health. Increased questions came to light with a viral video showing Trump’s […]
Earlier in the day, it was confirmed that Chadwick Boseman, a star in Marvel’s beloved “Black Panther” film, passed away after a long struggle with stage 4 colon cancer. People around the world flocked to the web in an emotional move to express grief over the death of Chadwick Boseman, a lead actor for Marvel’s breakout hit film “Black Panther”. The tragic news made waves on […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107835/10/1078351087_0:531:1530:1391_1200x675_80_0_0_60b82b736e2ba52b5d51ca433099d2c6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Radhika Parashar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202008271080293351-at-3000-metres-above-sea-level-indian-aviation-regulator-releases-draft-rules-on-in-flight-wi-fi/ New Delhi (Sputnik): In March this year, India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) confirmed that airlines will now be permitted to offer Wi-Fi connectivity for laptops, smartphones, tablets, smart watches, and e-readers for flyers travelling within the country, specifying that the services would be offered only on their device’s flight mode. India’s aviation regulator, the Directorate General […]
David Dias is a research engineer at Protocol Labs. He specializes in peer-to-peer networking and distributed systems. Electricity, water, gas – these are just some of the public utilities we use every day, whether for cooking food in the morning, heating homes throughout the day, or charging computers at night. But what about random numbers? Do we need a public source of randomness just like we […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/19/1080269087_0:167:3114:1919_1200x675_80_0_0_8090123b117e9d286f418f6e739fa62d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202008261080277885-night-one-of-rnc-enriched-internet-with-guilfoylechallenge/ The ongoing Republican National Convention has delivered a couple of fiercely passionate speakers, including Donald Trump Jr. and his current girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, although many noted some madness in their passion. While Trump Jr. has been labeled “high” during his speech, Guilfoyle’s performance is now perpetuated as a meme. After Kimberly Guilfoyle, the national chair of the “Trump Victory Finance […]
by Preston James and Mike Harris 100-800 AD – an incredibly Evil Society Emerges in Khazaria: Khazarians develop into a nation ruled by an evil king, who had ancient Babylonian black arts, occult oligarchs serving as his court. During this time, Khazarians became known to surrounding countries as thieves, murderers, road bandits, and for assuming the identities of those travelers they murdered as a normal occupational practice […]
After a Russian TV channel loosely inspired by America’s Fox News was blocked by video-streaming service YouTube earlier this week, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman says Western web giants should be treated with a “low degree of trust.” Dmitry Peskov emphasized that the companies are completely unaccountable and can do as they please. He said the public needs to be aware that they can be “thrown out of […]
Russian interest in the African nation of Tanzania has soared after Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova named it as one of three countries to resume flights with Russia from August 1. According to Yandex, the most popular Russian search engine, the number of people searching for the tropical East African country shot through the roof. “On Friday, July 24, interest in Tanzania on Yandex Search soared,” […]
Russian Olympic champion gymnast Karolina Sevastyanova has caused a stir on social media after sharing a picture in which she appears with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) star Conor McGregor. The 25-year-old posted a photo on Instagram in which she’s hugging the famous Irishman. He, meanwhile, struck a fighting pose. READ MORE: ‘Conor McGregor is retired’: UFC boss Dana White plays down McGregor-Masvidal rumors The world and Olympic […]
CoinDesk columnist Nic Carter is a partner at Castle Island Ventures, a venture fund based in Cambridge, Mass., that focuses on public blockchains. He is also the co-founder of Coin Metrics, a blockchain analytics startup. The dust is still settling, but July 15, 2020 already looks to be one of the worst days in Twitter’s 14-year history. A devastating hack, apparently taking advantage of internal tools, […]
Earlier, Ivanka Trump pitched Goya products on her Twitter account, facing strong backlash from netizens who accuse her of violating federal ethics by touting products while in the position of being a senior White House adviser. US President Donald Trump in his Instagram account shared a photo of himself sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office displaying several products made by Goya – a large […]
After Valentina Sampaio became the first transgender model to appear on a Sports Illustrated cover the internet exploded with mixed reactions, some of which didn’t approve the magazine’s choice. Sports Illustrated has continued its policy of promoting inclusivity and diversity by inviting models representing different social and ethnic groups. READ MORE: ‘We aren’t backing down’: New US ruling says letting transgender girls compete in high school sports […]