Accusations in the mirror
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 03/12/2025 - 6:15pmYou've probably have never heard of the Civicus Monitor, but then you probably never needed to know about them.
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Imagine the internet would not exist ...
Submitted by mimi on Wed, 10/27/2021 - 12:08pmcould you live without one?
Just asking (not for a friend but for myself).
Which invention is / was more dangerous? Radioactivity or the WWW?
How can you believe that the internet and WWW is not enslaving you?
Do you feel more free, because you can use the www for communicating?
And the talk makes no one walk. And if you walk, most probably you will never talk again.
So much for freedom.
The agenda of public control in America
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Thu, 09/16/2021 - 5:13pmYou think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still f*cking peasants as far as I can see.
- John Lennon
Independent media getting wiped out. Plus, why we can't have nice things
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 03/25/2021 - 4:01pm"Freedom," or "liberty," in the atrophy of political imagination
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 6:12pmAre we "free" to enter grocery stores without wearing masks?
Looking for a little lightness and liberation
Submitted by janis b on Wed, 06/03/2020 - 11:19pmWhat’s your favourite computer sound?… the sound of an incoming email or message, the sending of one. Maybe it's the sound of the trash being emptied, or something else?
The sound of the trash/bin being emptied on my new macbook is new to me. I really like it. It sounds to me like thin glass or icicles being gently shattered, or crackly paper being torn. I have chosen a different sound for incoming emails, that I find less distracting but nonetheless present.
June 19 Open Thread: It's Juneteenth, everybody!
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 5:00am
It's Day 170 of the Year 2019 CE (Gregorian), meaning that it's June 19, 2019 (Gregorian), or 13.0.6.10.11 by the long count
Socialism, Libertarianism, and Freedom
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 11/18/2018 - 3:18pmI'm not a fan of Paul Krugman, but every once in a while he says something intelligent, and recently it's something that I've been investigating.
Internet Freedom Fight Keeps On
Submitted by hungeski on Sat, 06/23/2018 - 1:01pm
Internet Freedom Status
The clock has ticked down on net neutrality, and its guarantee of internet freedom. We won that freedom in 2015, after internet users sent four million comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC then classified all internet service providers (ISPs) as common carriers, which, by definition, must treat all communications equally regardless of who it comes from, who it goes to, or what it contains. But last fall the new Trump Republican majority on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to take our hard-won freedom, and give total control of your internet connection to your Internet Service Provider (ISP), be it AT&T, Verizon, Spectrum, or any other. The FCC net neutrality kill order officially took effect June 11, 2018.
But the people's love of internet freedom endures. In a recent poll, 86% of persons stood against the FCC net neutrality kill order. That number includes 82% of Republicans and 90% of Democrats. That broad public support should brighten the outlook for internet freedom, as the fight continues on several fronts.
Freedom
Submitted by Big Al on Thu, 12/07/2017 - 11:57pmLate night post, not much going on, can't hurt. Right? A little rant.
More people should take advantage of this freeform non-partisan blog and rant away. In the immortal words of an evil corporation, just do it.
