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The decline and decline of Reddit

A while back there was a big wave of users that moved from Reddit to Voat, essentially a reddit clone that wants to promote real free speech. This was mostly in response to Reddit's growing censorship.

Reddit used to be a place that respec...

The Streisand Effect strikes again, and again this is the result of censorship and repression. This time it's Erdoğan's turn.

Erdoğan has asked experts to study Tolkien's work to determine whether a comparison with Gollum ...

Saudi Arabia vowed to sue those who compare their country to ISIS, of course the Streisand effect took place and now more wonder, what is the real difference between the two ?

A Reddit user decided to create the SaudiArabiaIsISIS.com (the w...

Snowden's appearance on John Oliver's show, Last Week Tonight, has helped popularise the issues raised by the Snowden leaks.

A few years ago I was in New York around the time Greenwald had broken the news about Snowden, many of my American friends had few clues of the importanc...

Hollande wants big websites such as Facebook, Google, etc, to police themselves. According to him, they should delete any "illicit" content their users publish, preferably without government intervention. A bit like a private extension...

A quick word about the term "online privacy", or "Internet privacy".

I dislike when politicians and media talk about "online privacy". It's as if it's a specific notion that only applies to a virtual world detached from reality. Perhaps many discard its importance and translate it to "s...

I've already ranted a few times about EME and how it's bad and all that. In this post I want to point out one specific aspect, how EME can be used to exclude users to content based on their software and/or hardware choices.

Quick brief, EME is nothing...

A while back Ubuntu introduced a method of getting users' personal data by hijacking local search queries directly from the desktop search function.

It made quite a bit of noise, so to help those who insist on using ...

Censoring Inappropriate Content

David Cameron would like to setup filters at ISPs for all home users. These filters would sieve out content that is judged as "inappropriate" by the authorities. Only the subscriber would be authorised to deactivate the filters, and to do this, he/she m...

Too many times lately I've read prejudice criticism about certain groups of people as a whole, like Gypsies, Muslims, Jews, etc... The critiques of these opinions often use the term "Racist". The defenders of these opinions retort that it's not racism if they're not talking about r...

How malicious is your ISP ?

If they practice DNS hijacking then it's pretty damn messed up and should obviously be illegal. Yet for some reason there are ISPs that do this and have been getting away with this for years. Even stra...

Seems like Reddit is now in the business of banning certain domains from their website. They have banned URL shorteners, but that is for the obvious reason that url shorteners are bad so everyone is okay with that, however blocking w...

You may have already heard about CISPA (or CISPA or

If you don't now what ACTA is, search the Internet for ACTA, that should let you find your own sources. If you do know what it's about then you are likely to be against it (unless you are part of the 1%).

On February 11 2012 you can protest a...

EFF and Carpathia have joined forces to help Megaupload users who stored non-infringing files retrieve what they can. The only limitation is that this is only directed to users that are based in the United...

Demand Progress has started an open letter to twitter and asked its subscriber's to sign it, the letter is short and as follows:

How can the USA authorities take down a Hong-Kong based company and arrest people in New-Zealand ? Ars Technica explains, it turns out that the...

I just heard about Global Censorship Checkpoints, it's aim is to document various projects around the world that want to police the Internet. On this site you can see, which polices are implemented or under study in each country, there are also links t...

MegaUpload.com was just shut down and executives arrested, data centres violated, etc etc. The FBI it seems has the right to arrest people all over the world (New Zealand, Germany, Canada, etc etc).

At the same time the MPAA, RIAA and Department Of "Justice" websites are al...

Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) speaks about the anti SOPA/PIPA blackout, noticeably about Wikipedia.

Parts of the Internet will be on strike tomorrow as you may have noticed on this site. Join us while it is still legal.

A few good links:

• List of sites on strike

A friend pointed out this article on how Richard Stallman was right all along and of course, I agree and actually was not part of those who think/thought that RMS is too paranoid/crazy. I don't have a mobile phon...