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Awara — Russia launched its own “LinkedIn”

Today, the Federal Service for Labour and Employment of Russia (Rostrud) opened access to skillsnet.ru – a Russian professional networking platform powered by Rabota v Rossii (Work in Russia) employment web portal. The main idea is to develop skillsnet.ru to become the Russian alternative of the blocked LinkedIn. The new platform will host user profiles (with work experience, skills and achievements), professional groups, job opportunities for young talent and employer reviews.......

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Olivia Solon — Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent ‘weaponised’ web

The inventor of the world wide web warns over concentration of power among a few companies ‘controlling which ideas are shared’ The GuardianTim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent 'weaponised' web Olivia Solon While the chattering class is obsessing over social media, the deep state is operating behind the scenes. Advanced capitalism leads to corporate statism, the symbiotic relationship between the state and capital, which is the definition of fascism. "It can't...

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Vesti — Putin calls for greater Internet security, without freedom barriers for users

Security versus privacy and censorship. It is necessary to improve the security of the Russian Internet (known colloquially as Runet). This was stated by President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Russian Security Council . For this he proposed to adopt additional normative acts. At the same time, the head of state stressed that it is not about limiting access to the internet and not about "total barriers and filters" for citizens."We must fight against those and those who use the...

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Emerging Technology — First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society

Not just e-commerce that's changing the world.  Social networks are proliferating and expanding, and it is affecting how people meet. An obvious way to test this is through investigating online dating, for which there is ample data. Online dating sites are obviously targeted at people meeting. This has implications for many other social media venues as well. More evidence that the Internet is changing everything. Distance is shrinking, not only in terms of separation in space but also...

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