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06/20/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Private companies are beginning to shape the future of consumer internet, and that might be a bad thing

The global internet is now the battleground of big name corporations like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and SpaceX, each of which plans to snag a slice of that profitable pie. An article from The Conversation stated that these private companies are shaping future digital infrastructure and resources so that they stand to benefit the most as long […]

03/15/2018 / By Lance D Johnson

Inventor of the World Wide Web warns tech giants must be regulated, or the ‘net will plunge into “weaponization” that harms society

Inventor of the World Wide Web, British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is speaking out about how the internet is being weaponized against people. He believes that tech giants should be regulated so that free speech can be restored across the net. Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc., control a vast proportion of the information people receive. The […]

08/16/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

Why Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube all need to be urgently regulated to halt politically motivated censorship

White House chief strategist and free market advocate Steve Bannon made news late last month by allegedly floating the idea of regulating Google and Facebook like utilities. In a familiar refrain, three anonymous sources who were involved in discussions with Bannon supposedly revealed this development to The Intercept. Government intervention into the private sector is usually and […]

08/03/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

Apple goes all-in for communist China censorship by banning apps that help users bypass state censorship

In an example of situational ethics, if not outright hypocrisy, Apple appears to be helping China censor Internet content. Apparently caving to pressure from the communist government there, it has removed Virtual Private Network (VPN) software apps from its app store in China. The regime now requires VPN developers to obtain a license from the government pursuant to […]

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