Source: https://www.truth-out.org/google-and-verizon-usher-internets62187 Monday’s announcement that Verizon and Google will create a distinct wireless experience put net neutrality discussions not so much on the back burner as in the recycling bin. Although early speculation suggested that the corporate giants were going to create the equivalent of an E-Z Pass lane for content […]
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Al Jazeera English Interesting show this one, caught an episode today where they were discussing the need for a global government, like it was no big thing… yikes. I’ll endeavour to post it when it makes it into the “pipes and dump-tucks” of internet land. Here is a good intro […]
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Media Release: July 19 2010 Triangle and Stratos launch ‘explosive’ political show Expect explosive comments and fireworks when New Zealand’s “most opinionated man” Martyn ‘Bomber’ Bradbury and his revolving panel of big city bloggers review current political media issues in a new show Citizen A on Triangle and Stratos Television. […]
https://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/ I realise that Democracy Now are, to some extent, gatekeepers, but both these interviews are worth a listen. “Top Secret America” Washington Post Investigation Reveals Massive, Unmanageable, Outsourced US Intelligence System” https://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/19/top_secret_america__washington_post “Tim Shorrock Asks Why It Took the Washington Post So Long to Investigate the US Intelligence System” […]
The Ministry of Truth was how George Orwell described the mechanism used by government to control information in his seminal novel 1984. A recent trip to Europe has convinced me that the governments of the world have been rocked by the power of the internet and are seeking to gain […]