Socialist party wants to ban Creative Commons Portugal in
Something is rotten in Portugal: The Socialist Party will present this new proposal for approval in the next Government, no matter if they win the elections or not. In regards to Creative Commons, they...
View ArticleThe FreedomBox on CBSNews
Eben Moglen explains on CBSNews the FreedomBox project: software that keeps you in control of your private addressbook and your digital life online combined with plug-computer hardware. The ending...
View ArticleHow I went from architecture to free/libre software
When I tell people that I studied as an architect I always get a question: how did you end up in technology and why do you advocate Free Software/Open Source if you studied brick-and-mortar? The answer...
View ArticleFreedom of press is challenged in Italy
Italian blogger Carlo Ruta has been sentenced for producing an illegal editorial product on appeal by an Italian court. For the first time, remote fears have become a reality: you can be sentenced for...
View ArticleThe good news is Google+ and there is the bad news too
Google seems to have done it right this time: Google+ looks like a credible implementation of a social strategy. Whatever that means, of course. Compared to the other half baked recent initiatives like...
View ArticleUbuntu is not going to give me a decent desktop OS anymore
I’ve always been an Ubuntu fan for the past 10 years since the distribution came out with the promise of a usable deskto, with a promise of openness, regular releases, great integration between...
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Hamas may be a threath to 8chan, QAnon Online
Reposted Hamas May Be Threat to 8chan, QAnon Online by Brian Krebs (krebsonsecurity.com) how a web of sites connected to conspiracy theory movements QAnon and 8chan were being kept online by...
View ArticleBuild protocols not platforms to fix free speech on the internet
Reposted Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech by Mike Masnick (knightcolumbia.org) In the past few decades, however, rather than building new protocols, the internet has...
View ArticleParler, seen by the founder of The Pirate Bay
Reposted Pirate Bay Founder Thinks Parler’s Inability to Stay Online Is ‘Embarrassing’ (vice.com) Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi calls Parler’s face plant in the wake of its deplatforming 'embarrassing,'...
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Old fights between Google and Microsoft, again in Europe
Reposted Microsoft throws Google under the bus in European news fight (Ars Technica) Google has blasted "link tax" proposals as antithetical to the open Web. With Google searches increasingly not...
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