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Your Travel Guide to the Rudderless Right-Wing Web After Trump
24.2.2021
Moving into 2021 and forward, conservatives angry about cancel culture, censorship, shadowbans, or the attention of the FBI have a rich array of social destinations to choose from. We’ve prepped a travel guide for the unwitting observer who might be thinking of checking any of these conspicuous...
Bluezelle is Resisting Censorship with a New Developer Grant: Interview with Neeraj Muraka
16.2.2021
Online censorship has taken front and center since the sweeping ban of former U.S. President Donald Trump from every social outlet he’s been a part of. Other high-profile censorship acts, like Amazon removing alt-right social network Parler from its servers and My Pillow CEO Michael Lindell...
Donald Trump's Second Impeachment Trial, Explained
9.2.2021
Today, the U.S. Senate will begin the impeachment trial to determine whether former President Donald Trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection. This is the second time he has been impeached, the first time ever for a U.S. president. In 2019, he was impeached on two counts of abuse of power...
When QAnon Blows Up Your Friend Group
8.2.2021
My ex was the first person to tell me about Q. This was near the end of 2016, and we were in the beginning stages of our relationship. I took it as us having the same, passive interest in conspiracy theories. The kind of interest where you go, “LOL sounds like a Dan Brown novel!” I laughed it...
Digital art project sells out $10M in NFTs in four days
1.2.2021
Early adopters have scooped up over 15,300 Hashmask NFTs as one "card" has gone on sale for 97 ETH
State of Crypto: Unpacking the Trump Presidency’s Crypto Legacy
26.1.2021
Donald Trump may have been anti-crypto but his appointed regulators ushered in a largely industry-friendly regime
Týden mobilně 565: Trump fuč, tagy s miliardami detektivů a unboxing, jaký svět neviděl
24.1.2021
Trump definitivně odletěl z Bílého domu, ale těsně před tím stihl pořádně zatopit další silné smartphonové značce – Xiaomi. Čeká ji osud, který jsme za poslední rok a půl sledovali u Huawei? A jak se Honoru povedlo/povede vymanit z kletby? Nakolik se s novým prezidentem změní americko-čínské
Purging Today’s Freedom Activists: Why Big Tech’s Censorship Isn’t Directed Solely at Trump Supporters
23.1.2021
There’s been a lot of unrest in the U.S. and just before the presidential election’s electoral vote, Big Tech took action and censored a great number of individuals and even competing social media platforms. Moreover, even after President Biden’s first few days in office, social...
This Is Not Fiction
20.1.2021
In different ways, some of Marvel’s superheroes like Captain America and the Punisher, and Lucasfilm’s infamous Galactic Empire, have all been in the news as of late for reasons that have little to do with the stories we’re used to seeing them in. Instead, they’ve become part of the odd and often...
Trump Pardons Ripple Board Member and Family Friend, Ulbricht Not on List
20.1.2021
Ross Ulbricht was not on the list of 143 individuals to receive clemency from the President
French Programmer Sent Bitcoin Donations to Far-Right Activists Who Participated in the US Capitol Riots
16.1.2021
A crypto forensic analysis reveals that a French donor sent over $500,000 worth of bitcoin (BTC) to far-right activists in the United States. The half-million dollars went to the groups that took part in the pro-Trump riots in the U.S. Capitol. Alt-Right Personalities and Websites Are Included...
Law Decoded: The guard changes, and with it, the tweets, Jan. 8–15
15.1.2021
Accompanying the presidential transition are some major questions about the role of social media in society and politics
Twitter, Trump and the ‘Private Company’ Fallacy
14.1.2021
Defending deplatforming as the right of private companies assumes that truly private companies are possible. They may not be
Jack Dorsey cites Bitcoin as a better model for the internet in Trump ban explanation
14.1.2021
Days after Donald Trump’s account was banned, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey explained that it was the right decision, but still sets a dangerous precedent
‘Was This Correct?’ Twitter’s Dorsey Asks About Banning Trump and Then Says ‘Yes’
14.1.2021
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took to (where else?) Twitter to ask the question “was this correct?” regarding his company’s decision to ban U.S. President Donald Trump from the platform following last week’s attack on the Capitol. After that opening expression of doubt,...
This Dude Got Impeached Twice
13.1.2021
President Donald Trump has been impeached yet again in a 232-197 vote, five days after pro-Trump insurgents stormed the Capitol and little more than a week before his White House stint comes to an end. He is the first American president in history to be impeached more than once.Read more
The Triumph of Fascist Aesthetics
13.1.2021
The photograph is arresting: a bearded man stands at the top of a staircase located in the Senate wing of the Capitol bearing uniquely American symbols, marking both time and ideology. He holds in his right hand a red flag with the phrase “Trump is my president” written across it in bold white...
Twitch's Pogchamp Removal Was Never Enough, And Now It's Turning Into A Disaster
12.1.2021
It’s not every day you hear about an enormous platform like Twitch swatting the face of one of its most popular emotes clean off and rendering the president’s account indefinitely inert, as it did in the aftermath of last week’s Capitol Building insurrection. But Twitch does do similar things from...
Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users' Location Data, Has Been Archived
11.1.2021
In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” —...
Parler Forced Offline After Amazon Pulls Hosting Services
11.1.2021
Parler has gone offline after Amazon made good on its promise to drop the controversial social media site from its AWS web hosting services. Amazon pulled the plug at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time, saying that Parler wasn’t properly moderating its content and the violence being called for on the site...