Issues: Online reform
Online resources to help you understand potential reforms that can be made to the online world to make it perform better, without negative second order impacts on society.
- Tim Berners-Lee wants to build a new Internet, with privacy baked in. [web page]
- Regimes running concentration camps are okay by Big Tech. Double standards, anyone? [web page]
- All Facebook users are equal, but some Facebook users are (a lot) more equal than others. [web page]
- The shadow forces working to curtail free speech online are revealed. [web page]
- In a sign of foreign subversion of Western society, all 15 of the top 15 Christian groups on Facebook were run by foreign troll farms, attempting to sew discord among citizens. [video]
- Facebook now has far too much power to censor outside of the law. [web page]
- Because of pressure from the White House, Alex Berenson was banned from using Twitter, which is a clear infringement of his right to free speech. [web page]
- The Internet is eroding - could a central authority save it, or destroy it? [web page]
- Users of WhatsApp find their messages passed to U.S. prosecutors. [web page]
- Social media rules prevent medical dialogues online. [video]
- Social Media's giants have seized unsurpassed powers. Now it's time to tame them. [web page]
- The current state of online freedom is beyond monopoly now with Google. [audio]
- Freedom used to be at the Net's heart. Now? Not so much. [web page]
- Wikipedia founder demands urgent reform of the online platform he helped create. [audio]
- App data is now being deployed in extreme privacy violations. [web page]
- Online censorship is become a partisan issue in the USA - and that's insane. [video]
- Big Brother just got super-sized: Clearview AI to put 100 billion in their facial recognition system. [web page]
- Mega-corporations like Amazon and Facebook are growing in power, but do they now have legal immunity? [video]
- Twitter has messed with our brains, and the results aren't pretty. [web page]
- Big Tech is now hunting its rivals, and murdering them before they can grow to rival the current players. [web page]
- Tristan Harris chats about social media reform. [video]
- Are data trusts the reform we need for online privacy concerns? [web page]
- Is the meritocracy of ideas dying online, quashed by a top-down approval or censorship approach system? [video]
- Is it time for big tech to stop exploiting immigrant Asian labour and treating them like the worst gang-masters? [web page]
- The politicisation of the Covid pandemic has done science no favours. [web page]
- Chinese bot-farm mass propaganda machine creating faces with A.I. [web page]
- It's time to take a hard pass on the internet's junk food diet. [web page]
- Is an invasive new social credit score system slowly creeping through the USA, now? [video]
- Sections of the Internet are being walled away from traffic by World Economic Forum policies. [video]
- How big does tech need to get before nations are mere colonies? [web page]
- Ryan Hartwig on how Facebook moderation works. [video]
- Is it time to abandon the BBC? In this interview, Rod Liddle talks about the BBC's bias and his tenure as Editor of Radio 4's flagship Today show. [video]
- Time to revoke Paypal's UK licence as it starts to shut down freedom of speech advocates using its payment service. [web page]
- AIs trained on the Internet might know more about you than you'd like. [web page]
- Journalism isn't fulfilling its basic functions any more. [video]
- Social media is eating away at the fabric of our minds - but it didn't have to be this way. [video]
- Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition fight reveals dubious business practises. [video]
- Reforming the media for an online world. [video]
- Building enhanced trust into the Internet's foundations. [web page]
- The steps we need to take to build for saner human minds in social media. [web page]
- Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger chats about online reform and the skewing of the platform he helped build. [video]
- Is online reform really as simple as removing the like button? [video]
- A new power team being assembled at the U.S. FTC suggests big tech antitrust actions might be closer than we think. [web page]
- Web founder Tim Berners-Lee has a radical plan for online reform. [web page]
- UK to reform broken EU data laws, post-Brexit. [web page]
- The Internet now needs an official Bill of Rights to guarantee freedom to its users. [video]
- The tech titans are overreaching on censorship. What can be done about it? [audio]
- Clearview will not sell its collection of 20 billion face pictures to private persons or companies, but the corporation is still able to sell its information to government organisations on the state and federal levels. [web page]
- In an online world, what Big Data doesn't know about you isn't worth knowing. Is that far too much power? [video]
- Big Tech isn't robbing material from news organisations; it's stealing their funding sources' wonga. [web page]
- Google's Jigsaw division are working with Rand to tackle conspiracy theories online. [video]
- Social media is destroying the mental health of our next generation of adults. [web page]
- The odd case of the Facebook whistleblower arguing for more censorship, not less. [video]
- Is it time for the social media giants to compensate scam victims they create? [web page]
- In an assault on social media and search engines, Tim Cook warns of a privacy "emergency." [web page]
- It's come to something when China is using TikTok to show the Free West a hard lesson in effective online policing of family values. [web page]
- Does the cause of online reform now rely on breaking up Big Tech in the USA? [video]
- What breaking up the big tech monopoly might actually look like. [video]
- Allum Bokhari interviewed about his book, 'Deleted'. [video]
- When it comes to influence, Twitter has a leg up over the printing press. [web page]
- The current tech environment is particularly unfavourable to anybody dealing with the common symptoms of old age. [web page]
- Is the attention economy dangerously centralised? [video]
- Big Tech has shut down free speech. How can this issue be addressed? [video]
- Large tech firms censoring too much, now? [audio]
- New facial recognition tech balance is needed. [web page]
- Web-inventor Tim Berners-Lee warns paying to link to web sites will be the end of the open internet. [web page]
- When Novara Media comes under the Big Tech cosh, they quickly care about censorship. [video]
- Silicon Valley's tech giants face a number of growing reform challenges. [audio]
- The demise of media neutrality, as seen through the eyes of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial verdict. [web page]
- China is cracking down on kids' screen use, with far-reaching implications. [web page]
- With big tech spending serious money to addict you to your mobile devices and VR on the way, is there any way to beat the system? [video]
- Apple is upping its e-mail privacy. [web page]
- Is the spectre of Big Tech overstated compared to its benefits? [audio]
