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Germany Wants to Force Gab to Censor, It’s Not Happening

Germany Wants to Force Gab to Censor, It’s Not Happening

Andrew Torba CEO, Gab.com Only Jesus Saves This week we received a huge packet of documents with fines and legal threats from the nation state of Germany. Gab is refusing, and has refused for many years, to comply with the German Network Enforcement Act. Gab is a US company

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Op-Ed: Protecting Your Data during COVID-19

Op-Ed: Protecting Your Data during COVID-19

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities As I write this column I am thinking about the extra weeks of economic hardship still lying ahead for many Kiwi businesses in the Auckland region during Level 3 and Level 2 in the rest of

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How Do Nuclear-Powered Submarines Work? A Nuclear Scientist Explains

How Do Nuclear-Powered Submarines Work? A Nuclear Scientist Explains

AJ Mitchell Australian National University Born and raised in Northern Ireland, AJ Mitchell attended Queen’s University Belfast as an undergraduate studying Mathematics and Physics. Following an internship at ETH Zurich, He decided to pursue a career in academic research. The Australian government has just declared an historic defence agreement

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‘What Is My IP Address?’ Explaining One of the World’s Most Googled Questions

‘What Is My IP Address?’ Explaining One of the World’s Most Googled Questions

Paul Haskell-Dowland Edith Cowan University Bogdan Ghita University of Plymouth Associate Professor Paul Haskell-Dowland is the Associate Dean for Computing and Security in the School of Science at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. Bogdan Ghita is the Associate dean (International), Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Plymouth What is

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‘Anorexia Coach’: Sexual Predators Online Are Targeting Teens Wanting to Lose Weight. Platforms Are Looking the Other Way

Suku Sukunesan Swinburne University of Technology Dr Sukunesan is a Senior Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology within the Information Systems Department. He is an experienced researcher with a keen interest in social media applications, social network analysis and health innovation. There’s no shortage of people online looking to

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What Are Dark Patterns? An Online Media Expert Explains

What Are Dark Patterns? An Online Media Expert Explains

Jasmine McNealy University of Florida Jasmine E. McNealy is an associate professor in the Department of Media Production, Management & Technology, in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida, where she studies information, communication, and technology with a view toward influencing law and policy. Dark patterns

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Thank You for Liking

Thank You for Liking

One of the most damning indictments of the tobacco industry is that it for a long time it knew how harmful its products were – and lied about it. Which makes Facebook the New Big Tobacco. Because internal documents show that Facebook is well aware of how toxic its Instagram platform

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Somehow They Still Can’t Understand Why Nobody Trusts the System

Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,

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The Charge of the Smug Brigade

The Charge of the Smug Brigade

With many devices rushing to connect to the IoT (Internet of Things), security does not seem to get a high priority before roll-out. Later on, the third-party security experts poke around and expose the vulnerabilities and the suppliers rush to slap Band-Aids over their poor programming. A case in point

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It’s Ok When They Do It

It’s Ok When They Do It

During my brief tenure at the festering online sinkhole that is Twitter, I quickly learned the one, unbreakable rule: the left are untouchable. I was permanently banned from the platform after just a few months, for suggesting that a troll do something that he would surely have found quite pleasurable.

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Telegram Distribution

Telegram Distribution

As observant readers will know, we have copped another ban on Facebook. This time it was for daring to post about how Joe Rogan successfully treated his Covid infection with Ivermectin. It has prompted us to look at alternate methods of distribution to eventually replace Facebook. The first such method

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Op-Ed: The Cyber Siege Has Begun and the Government Doesn’t Care

Op-Ed: The Cyber Siege Has Begun and the Government Doesn’t Care

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities New Zealand’s largest city is in lockdown with no end in sight. Over a million people are restricted in their movements and the future of their livelihoods due to the latest COVID-19 outbreak that saw

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Video Game Developer Tripwire’s CEO Forced to Step down for Tweeting in Support of Anti-abortion Law in Texas

rt.com US video game firm Tripwire Interactive has announced the immediate departure of its chief executive and apologized profusely that its former leader spoke out in favor of the new Texas abortion law. Chief executive John Gibson has “stepped down,” effective immediately, Tripwire said on Monday. The reason? “His

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