In the global imagination, Facebook would be a responsible social network that allows everyone to connect confidentially while censoring messages contrary to local laws. In practice, it is quite different. Facebook collects information about you for the NSA, censors your opinions and mints its own currency. In a few months, this company has become one of the most influential players in world politics.
What’s really happening is that the so-called ‘revolution’ of last year is now proverbially ‘eating its own’. Facebook has long been a loyal ally of the US’ government’s censorship campaign, especially ever since the 2016 election of former US President Donald Trump and last year’s contentious one that resulted in […]
The only surprise was that it did not come sooner. Big Tech whistleblowers are not exactly running out of the offices of Silicon Valley, so it was with some excitement that Facebook could produce a person willing enough to show us the laundry, with the dirt still caking the content. […]
This dimension of the German Hybrid War on Russia is interestingly aimed at the German people instead of the Russian ones or those in any of the countries in which these two Great Powers compete. Russia’s Human Rights Council concluded that YouTube’s removal of RT’s German-language channels amounts to censorship […]
“After years of IT experts telling us that we ‘can’t break the internet’ by pressing the wrong button, it turns out we can do it by updating our settings.” Phil Coughlin, The Guardian, Jun 11, 2021 On June 8, an internet blackout was precipitated by one customer updating their settings […]
The word “fascism” has been carelessly thrown around in recent years, but Facebook’s censorship of RT’s Redfish was literally an example of digital fascism since the company’s page was temporarily banned for sharing anti-fascist posts commemorating victims of the Holocaust and celebrating the downfall of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. […]
Having made something of a splash last month with the fuss over Australia’s News Media Bargaining code, Facebook, and the digital giants, are facing another stormy front in India. The move here has nothing to do with revenue so much as alleged bad behaviour. “We appreciate the proliferation of social […]
When we founded the Voltaire Network in 1994, our first concern was to defend freedom of expression in France, and then around the world. Today, however, this concept is, in our view, distorted and fought against. We will therefore try to define this ideal further. The circulation of ideas experienced […]
Future war “may see attacks via computer viruses, worms, logic bombs, and trojan horses rather than bullets, bombs, and missiles” [Steven Metz, Armed Conflict in the 21st Century: The Information Revolution and Post-Modern Warfare, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2000, xiii]. The facilities of the Internet in politics The Internet […]
They are rather good at raking in the cash; rather poor at sharing it. Google and Facebook have radiated, strafed and shrivelled hundreds of news outlets across the globe with their information sharing platforms while celebrating choice, advertising revenue and traffic. The idea of whether such content is news is […]
One of the consequences of the coronavirus and the quarantine measures introduced in a number of countries has been an increase in Internet demand. Governments are trying to regulate Internet traffic using available means and measures. The US Internet giant Verizon has been given permission by the Federal Communications Commission […]
The term “Nomos” was introduced into modern political science by the German lawyer Carl Schmitt. The word had several meanings in Ancient Greece, including “law” or “custom”. It was also an administrative territorial unit (divided into “nomoi”). Carl Schmitt used it to denote the principle of organising space. And with […]
Putin And Trump vs The New World Order: The Final Battle (509,990)
About Trump (338,063)
Bill Gates, Vaccinations, Microchips, And Patent 060606 (237,519)
An ISIS fighter: ‘I was forbidden at the Gates of Heaven…’ (166,599)
The Peace Treaty of Westphalia (1648) and its Consequences for International Relations (67,203)
Andrew KORYBKO 
Binoy KAMPMARK 
Vladislav B. SOTIROVIC 
Thierry MEYSSAN 
Fr. Stephen FREEMAN 
Eric MARGOLIS 
Leonid SAVIN 
Fr. Lawrence FARLEY 
Zamir AWAN 
Nikolay STARIKOV 
Vladimir KOZIN 
Gulam ASGAR MITHA 
Rick STERLING 
Michael AVERKO 
Nafeez AHMED 
Fr. Andrey TKACHEV 
Iqbal ALIMOHAMED 
Sabtain Ahmed DAR 
Sylvain LAFOREST 
Grey CARTER 
Comments