Africa has been a continent exploited since the European scramble carved it out in lines of a draughtsman’s crude design. Its resources have been pilfered; its peoples enslaved for reasons of trade and profit; its political conditions manipulated to favour predatory companies. A similar pattern is detectable in the digital […]
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The West Provoked A Surge Of Russophobia And A “Witch Hunting”
During the second week of the military operation in Ukraine, the whole world witnessed an outburst of hatred toward Russians. Not only abstract slogans against Russia, but also specific calls for killings were spread. Quite often such hate speeches turned into actions. In Ireland, a truck rammed the Russian embassy, […]
Meta’s Support Of Russophobic Hate Speech Should Seriously Concern All Westerners
All of this should seriously concern Westerners because they too might one day become the next victims of Meta’s tacitly state-backed hate speech campaign if the cause that they support ends up being treated as ‘politically incorrect’. Those conservative-nationalist supporters of former US President Trump could one day wake up […]
Business As Usual: Facebook, Russia And Hate Speech
Seedy, compromised and creepy, the surveillance machine of Facebook, now operating under the broader fold of its parent company Meta Platforms, is currently giving out the very signals that it was condemned for doing before: encourage discussions on hating a group and certain figures, while spreading the bad word to […]
Totalitarian Cyber-Creep: Mark Zuckerberg In The Metaverse
Never leave matters of maturity to the Peter Panners of Silicon Valley. At their most benign, they are easily dismissed as potty and keyboard mad. At their worst, their fantasies assume the noxious, demonic forms that reduce all users of their technology to units of information and flashes of data. […]
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