Internet The man in charge of Time on the Internet is retiring Thom Dunn

social media One way to fix social media? Look at how the US, UK, and USSR dealt with radio in the early 20th-century Thom Dunn

censorship Internet Service Provider blocks social media after Trump's Twitter Ban, allegedly at request of customers Thom Dunn

censorship Read the text of Trump's draft Executive Order about Social Media Thom Dunn

corruption ICANN hits pause on the sale of .ORG to Republican billionaires' private equity fund Cory Doctorow

social media The case for creating "public parks" on the Internet Thom Dunn

Post-truth is pre-fascism Excellent Atlantic article about QAnon and how it is becoming an anti-Enlightenment religion Mark Frauenfelder

twitter Twitter wants to develop an open, decentralized, federated social media standard…and then join it Cory Doctorow

eff We need to save .ORG from arbitrary censorship by halting the private equity buy-out Mitch Stoltz

Science The 2019 Halloween Candy Hierarchy David Ng and Ben Cohen

monopolism Bill Gates: if we break up Big Tech, we'll just have more bad companies Cory Doctorow

crime Violent mobs of alleged Triad gangsters dole out savage beatings to Hong Kong democracy protesters, cops nowhere to be found Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Speech Police: vital, critical look at the drive to force Big Tech to control who may speak and what they may say Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Poland rejects the EU's copyright censorship plans, calls it #ACTA2 Cory Doctorow

politics Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Xeni Jardin

corruption Using data-science to evaluate whether Xi Jinping's anti-corruption sweeps were really about consolidating power Cory Doctorow

surveillance China has perfected the internet control playbook and now it's exporting it to the world Cory Doctorow

politics Governing a decentralized internet without votes Cory Doctorow

obits Rest in Power, David Vyorst Aram Sinnreich