Facebook officials, Greenwald revealed, have laid out plans with the Israeli government on how to block material that they feel “incites violence.” This news comes at a time when the Israeli government is pushing legislation that would censor social media content from platforms its members consider disagreeable.
Giroux: The critique of the flight from privacy fails to address how the growth of the surveillance state and its appropriation of all spheres of private life are connected to the rise of the punishing state, the militarization of American society, secret prisons, state-sanctioned torture, a growing culture of violence, the criminalization of social problems, the depoliticization of public memory, and one of the largest prison systems in the world, all of which “are only the most concrete, condensed manifestations of a diffuse security regime in which we are all interned and enlisted.”
The NSA whistleblower's lawyer says the secret software can be remotely activated to watch the user. By Andrew Griffin / The Independent Alternet.org January 21, 2015 The iPhone has secret spyware that lets governments watch users without their knowledge, according to Edward Snowden. The NSA whistleblower doesn’t use a phone because of the secret software, More
Moving away from militarism requires identifing with humanity, not a nation. "We" must begin to mean humanity. By David Swanson (about the author) OpEdNews.com October 21, 2014 (image by http://warisacrime.org) Here's a fairly typical image of a sort that constantly clogs up my FaceBook page. I take it to be the full and open expression of More
ALECexposed, a project of CMD: Microsoft has left ALEC, but big technology companies Google, eBay, Facebook, and Yahoo reportedly still fund and remain engaged with ALEC. A number of energy companies have also left ALEC at the request of Greenpeace.Posted by REBEKAH WILCE PRWatch.org August 21, 2014Microsoft, the $86.8 billion-a-year technology company, is no longer a More
"Suppose you’re a young college student inclined towards liberal or left-wing ideas. And suppose, like a lot of such college students, you enjoy Stephen Colbert and find him a political inspiration. Now imagine that, during the #CancelColbert fiasco, you defended Colbert on Twitter. If your defense was noticed by the people who police that forum, More
With a billion users, Facebook is far and away the largest player in the world of corporate social media, so all these criticisms apply to Facebook. But many also apply to Twitter, Pinterest and their little brothers as well. Bruce A. Dixon BAR.com June 17, 2014 by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon For More
A little more detail on government's 0-999 info grabs from big tech companies. by Joe Mullin arstechnica.com Feb 3 2014 Tada! Several major tech companies finally pulled some NSA statistics from their collective hats. Flickr user: Jenn and Tony Bot NSA LEAKS New Snowden docs show Canadian spies tracked thousands of travelers How to stop the More
http://youtu.be/NswJ4kO9uHc Published on Dec 3, 2013 Upworthy.com There was a lot to celebrate this year for women in the media. But some things aren't changing fast enough... Join the campaign: http://bit.ly/ChangeMedia Miss Representation Subscribe or “Follow” us on Rise Up Times.wordpress.com. Rise Up Times is also on FACEBOOK! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this More
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So we know what you may not yet: they are not your friends and their vision is not your vision, but your data is their data, and your communications are in their hands, and they seem to be rising to become an arm of or a part-owner of the government or a law unto themselves, More
So we know what you may not yet: they are not your friends and their vision is not your vision, but your data is their data, and your communications are in their hands, and they seem to be rising to become an arm of or a part-owner of the government or a law unto themselves, More
