wikipedia Wikipedia's 7-year yogurt spelling war was longer than three Shakespeare plays Mark Frauenfelder
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
corruption ICANN hits pause on the sale of .ORG to Republican billionaires' private equity fund Cory Doctorow
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
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
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
