Tag Archives: Internet

Inventor of world wide web calls for urgent action to make cyberspace safer for women and girls The GuardianInternet 'is not working for women and girls', says Berners-Lee Ian Sample

Cutting through the BS surrounding Chinese government's response to the coronavirus.But the origin of the virus is yet unestablished. This is a limitation on prevention.East Asia ForumHas the internet helped China contain the coronavirus?Mu Li | Professor of International Public Health at the Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney

Majorities think their personal data is less secure now, that data collection poses more risks than benefits, and believe it is not possible to go through daily life without being tracked. Maybe the prevalent business model on the Internet is about to change? Into what though?Pew Research CenterAmericans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused and Feeling Lack of Control Over Their Personal Information

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Intellectual "property." Electronic Frontier FoundationLife-Altering Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law Moving in the Senate Ernesto Falcon | Legislative Counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation with a primary focus on intellectual property and open Internet issues.

I had heard about a video series on NPR’s Fresh Air regarding the origin and current issue with the concept of Fake News via Russia.  You can listen and read the interview of the author, Adam Ellick here.  There are 3 videos of 15 to 17 minutes each.  The series is titled: Operation Infektion,  Russian Disinformation: From Cold War to Kanye You can watch them here.   It begins with the AID’s hoax that it was a biological weapon developed and released by...

Tim Berners-Lee - modern hero. The guy who really invented the Internet and is now engaged in re-inventing it so that it becomes more like the tool he envisioned but got hijacked on the way.Medium One Small Step for the Web… * Tim Berners-Lee | Founder and Director of W3C, the Web Foundation and the Open Data Institute, and now Solid and inrupt. * Reference to Neil Armstrong, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," as he took the first step by a human onto the...

“I think the most likely scenario now is not a splintering, but rather a bifurcation into a Chinese-led internet and a non-Chinese internet led by America,” Schmidt told tech-heads at a private event in San Francisco on Wednesday, organized by investment firm Village Global VC.... RTEx-Google CEO: Internet will split in two, with China controlling half

Zuckerberg’s auto-da-fé before the Congressional inquisition is designed to send a message to his tech industry colleagues, as well as provide official cover for the future enforcement of draconian rules against deviants from the official script. “Misuse of social media!” cry the new Inquisitors. But who decides what constitutes “misuse”? Isn’t that what the First Amendment is all about?…. The suppression of free speech in the US and the rest of the “capitalist democracies” (a glorious...

This may go down in history as the week the mobile web became the web.On Monday, Google began indexing and ranking pages on its search engine based on the mobile versions of websites rather than the desktop ones, the company announced. The change may seem minor, but it underscores how Google views and presents the web to the world—as mobile first. "The medium is the message" — Marshall McLuhan Quartz Google has made it official: The internet is now mobile-firstAshley Rodriguez