By Aaron Kesel Facebook is being accused by the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) of privacy violations and is in the midst of negotiating over a…
By Jason Erickson As the “fake news” phenomenon continues to sweep across the Web, and the purge of independent media accelerates, lawmakers are calling on…
By Cory Doctorow Despite ringing denunciations from small EU tech businesses, giant EU entertainment companies, artists’ groups, technical experts, and human rights experts, and the…
By Oiwan Lam If you search “China” on Reddit this week, you’ll find a deluge of political memes — from the Tiananmen Square “Tank Man”…
By Aaron Kesel After a short delay, European Union lawmakers are continuing their journey to censor the Internet and have agreed on changes to the…
Op-Ed by Joe Wright “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – MLK Readers might remember an article at Activist Post from October 26,…
By Janet Phelan One of my first journalistic efforts was published in an inflight magazine in the late seventies and was entitled The Tyranny of…
By RuNet Echo The Russian State Duma is considering multiple bills of law that would further stifle free speech in Russia’s already heavily restricted internet…
By Kudzai Chimhangwa Following the January 12 declaration of an official fuel price hike in Zimbabwe, civil unrest and political paranoia has rocked the nation….
By Aaron Kesel The service NewsGuard, an establishment attempt to silence alternative media and independent media sites, has teamed up with Microsoft to help its…
By Press For Truth YouTube has gone to the next level of taking the role of gatekeeper over all information. Dan Dicks covers the latest…
By Aaron Kesel YouTube said Friday it will stop recommending conspiracy videos such as those claiming the Earth is flat, or promoting alternative theories about…
By Mong Palatino Fiji’s Online Safety Act took effect this month amid concern that it will be used to censor the Internet. The law was…
By Elliot Harmon We’re taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day…