A History of Media Control and Media Blackouts in Coups d’Etat
With the information disarray coming out of Turkey during the (seemingly failed) military coup, we see the same pattern of attempting to control media as we've seen for the past…
Rick Falkvinge
Rick is the founder of the first Pirate Party and is a political evangelist, traveling around Europe and the world to talk and write about ideas of a sensible information policy. Additionally, he has a tech entrepreneur background and loves good whisky and fast motorcycles.
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There are two prongs in the ongoing attack on liberty and freedoms of opinion, assembly, and expression
There are two parallel prongs being executed right now to crack down on liberty in an unprecedented fashion: freedoms of assembly, of expression, of speech, and liberty overall. To realize…
Why do politicians keep building shelters instead of windmills?
In scrambling to the latest threat against liberty and the net like a wild goose chase, it's sometimes worth asking the bigger question: why do we have incompetent politicians in…
United Kingdom ignorant and clueless in pushing a ten-year prison sentence for unauthorized sharing: not even death penalty stops sharing
The United Kingdom appears to stubbornly move ahead with a ten year prison sentence for unauthorized sharing. This is not just counterproductive, but stupid and ineffective. Evidence shows that not…
Swedish politicians consider opening population’s medical-research DNA database for private insurance companies
Since 1975, Sweden has taken a DNA sample from all newborns for medical research purposes, and asked parents' consent to do so for this research purpose. This means that over…
Apple patents technology enabling police to prevent iPhones from filming police abuse
Apple has been awarded a patent for making your camera refuse to record what it's seeing if it also sees something akin to an infrared strobe light. The intention is…
Privacy is not an individual privilege, as much as it is a collective benefit
All debates on privacy at the society level tend to focus on the individual rights of people vs. a collective desire for law enforcement. But this view of individual vs…
How will a Brexit affect your privacy?
Among all the questions talking about the consequences of a British exit from the European Union, one seems to have been unanswered: how does this affect your fundamental rights and…
TPP, TTIP don’t seem to be coming around after all – here’s why
The two protectionist agreements masquerading as free trade agreements, TPP and TTIP, appear to be meeting serious resistance - TTIP in particular. This makes the entire coup attempt unlikely to…
What happens when private limitations on freedom of speech get endorsed and expanded by government?
The European Commission is requesting/requiring Facebook, Twitter, and others to police their networks against undesirable political opinions and bad speech. This is cause for concern on a number of levels.…