Zuckerberg May Finally Pay a Price for Preying on Our Children
As a mother of two children who has often been on the losing side of family battles against screen time, I’ve been closely monitoring New Mexico’s landmark lawsuit against Meta, the parent company of...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Edward Snowden, Jill Stein & Greenwald on the...
This video compiles excerpts from interviews we published on our channel about the Julian Assange case. To see the full interviews Watch the full interviews: Chris Hedges: https://youtu.be/SwdPQm1IEBI...
View ArticleTo Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation
“If you’ve never tried to organize a movement without the internet, I’m here to tell you, it’s really hard. We need to seize the means of computation, because while the internet isn’t the most...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Edward Snowden, Jill Stein & Greenwald on the...
This video compiles excerpts from interviews we published on our channel about the Julian Assange case. To see the full interviews Watch the full interviews: Chris Hedges: https://youtu.be/SwdPQm1IEBI...
View ArticleFrom Doom Scrolling to Civic Action
The modern world is grappling with a paradox of connectivity. The average person spends two to three hours every day scrolling through social media, we are linked by screens but still consumed by an...
View ArticleTo Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation
“If you’ve never tried to organize a movement without the internet, I’m here to tell you, it’s really hard. We need to seize the means of computation, because while the internet isn’t the most...
View Article#TakeBackTikTok From Ellison – Let Palestine Live
CODEPINK co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans call on TikTokers across the world to flood the platform for Palestine to #TakeBackTikTok from billionaire Larry Ellison, the media mogul soon to...
View ArticleSoft Surveillance and Control: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool of Gradual...
Digital Surveillance and Control Digital corporations, in collaboration with major powers, actively monitor individuals’ movements through smart devices and various communication tools. Virtually all...
View ArticleGoogle Has Been Convicted of Monopolization. Will It Matter?
For years, Google has been synonymous with its main search product. Generations have grown up relying on the company’s flagship service to search the web, answer questions, and cheat on exams prepared...
View ArticleHow US Big Tech Monopolies Colonized the World: Welcome to Neo-Feudalism
US Big Tech corporations have essentially colonized the world. In almost every country on Earth, the digital infrastructure upon which the modern economy is based is owned and controlled by a small...
View ArticleQueer Youth Are Derailing the Controversial Kids Online Safety Act
As millennials become parents and Gen Z grows up glued to smartphones, Congress has come under massive pressure to do something, anything, to protect children and teens from online harm and hold...
View ArticleLiberal Democracy’s Had A Good Run
One thing that all past human societies and civilizations have in common is that they all eventually collapsed. While each of us may be aware of this in the abstract, we don’t necessarily follow the...
View ArticleBig Tech Consolidation Amplified the CrowdStrike Outage
A little more than a year before Microsoft’s systems crashed on Friday, creating global chaos in the banking, airline, and emergency service industries, the company pushed back against regulators...
View ArticleThe Case for a Socialized Internet
During an episode of his program in 2015, the late right wing talk radio demagogue Rush Limbaugh devoted part of a segment to attacking Bill Gates for an interview the latter had recently given to The...
View ArticleA TikTok Revolution?
Something truly remarkable happened in Nairobi on June 18. For the first time since Kenya’s independence, a people-driven movement, ignited largely by Gen Z (those born after 1997, also known as the...
View ArticleVermin United: Biden, Trump, BlueLeaks and the Repression of Left Protests
“Dissent must never lead to disorder.” – Joe Biden, 5/2/24, Remarks on recent events on college campuses[1] “We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left...
View ArticleAI Chatbots: Hype Meets Reality
Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere. Companies use powerful AI chatbots on their webpages or phone systems to handle customer questions. Newsrooms and magazines use them to write...
View ArticleHow to Take Back the Internet
Platforms that once represented a promise of freedom are now monopolies based on data extraction and surveillance. Users who joined social media to stay in touch with their friends find themselves...
View ArticleIn the Shadow of Silicon Valley
Seeing cars with no human inside move through San Francisco’s streets is eerie enough as a pedestrian, but when I’m on my bicycle I often find myself riding alongside them, and from that vantage point...
View ArticleThe Refusal
“Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible.” — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man.1 Internet sobriety is what I...
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