The BBC has revealed it will use people “personal information” to “stop” them being “disruptive” or “offensive” online, as well as threatening to inform users employer if they are perceived to have broken the law.
In our first installment, we noted that in the distant past, China had invented key technologies—for war-fighting and ocean-voyaging—and yet had failed effectively to develop them. So now let’s consider the possible fate of another country, the United States. In the 20th century, America broke ground in two technological frontiers: cyberspace and outer space. Both now face serious competition from China. As we shall see, the U.S. chose to develop effectively one of these technologies, but not the other. So could the U.S. today be making the same sort of mistake that China made in the past? We’ll likely know the answer to that question sometime in this century, but even now, the early warning signs are ominous.
Why does the Left want the government to take over the internet? For the same reasons that Barack Obama and Ajit Pai’s predecessors at the FCC tried to put their cops into newsrooms around the country: to control what Americans read, hear, view, and think.
(Reuters) — The World Wide Web needs a complete rethink to prevent spying and the spread of “nasty, mean ideas” on social media websites, its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, said on Monday.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) discussed the possible elimination of the FCC’s 2016 broadband privacy rules on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.
Hipsters in the Western world constantly flirt with radical chic, but over in the actual Communist superpower of China, the Politburo is worried that kids just aren’t digging the Little Red Book like they used to.
According to the New York Times, the internet has undermined the power of media and political party elites. And this is bad. Or something.
There have been more than 50 government shutdowns of the Internet in 2016, costing the respective countries hundreds of millions of dollars and choking citizen freedoms during crucial moments.
Billionaire Elon Musk plans to launch thousands of satellites into space through his company SpaceX in order to provide the entire planet with high speed Internet access.
(Reuters) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday called for greater cooperation among nations in developing and governing the internet, while reiterating the need to respect so-called “cyber sovereignty”.
Two-thirds of people on the planet live under government Internet censorship, while Internet freedom has declined for the sixth consecutive year, according to a report from Freedom House.
The popular “100 Percent FED UP” page was censored by Facebook, its curators said.
The new authoritarian masters of the Internet wasted no time exploiting President Obama’s handoff of American control.
The latest report on the censorious appetites of the Internet’s new masters comes from the UK Telegraph, which reports China’s media (which means China’s Communist rulers) are now cracking down on emojis.
Attorneys general for the states of Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Nevada, have been denied their request to stop President Obama’s unilateral “give-away” of the Internet.
Four state attorneys general filed a lawsuit in Texas to stop the Obama Administration from giving control of the Internet to an international organization that lists several authoritarian regimes as advisers on its board.
A lot of weird stuff has been happening to data inside the internet’s walled gardens. It has been getting shut down by the people who own the sites we all depend on.
President Barack Obama’s drive to hand off control of Internet domains to a foreign multi-national operation will give some very unpleasant regimes equal say over the future of online speech and commerce.
On Wednesday’s “Sean Hannity Show,” FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai (R) stated that the plan to “essentially give up the US oversight role…of the Internet” to ICANN is something that should worry anyone who cherishes “free expression, and free speech rights
Pollster and political analyst Pat Caddell spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday, discussing the state of the presidential race, as well as the looming United Nation’s “Internet takeover” being discussed in Congress, as Breitbart News reported.
There are only three days left until President Barack Obama gives up the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to the international community, ending online freedom of expression and enterprise as we know it.
On Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM, former U.N. ambassador John Bolton predicted that the impending transfer of Internet domain control from American supervision to an international body will mean the end of the Internet “as we know it.”
Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, has sided with the sovereignty of the American people against international elites yet again by coming out in public opposition to President Barack Obama’s internet giveaway to a United Nations globalist body.
President Barack Obama called for a series of international agreements to regulate activity on the Internet, citing his preference not to start an arms race in cyberspace.
Iran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Mahmoud Vaezi, announced on Sunday that Phase One of the new “national Internet” is complete.
Tehran – Iran has inaugurated the first phase of its “National Network of Data,” a national Intranet, its official news agency IRNA reported Sunday.
The United Nations could take over control of the Internet on October 1, when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) passes from U.S. administration to the control of a multilateral body, most likely the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
President Barack Obama is determined to give away control of the Internet within two months — one of the worst blunders in the history of national security, economic policy, and the fight for liberty generally.
Citizens of China can rest easy, knowing that their authoritarian government has taken steps to protect them from the “vile effect” of independent journalism.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is blaming internet websites for eroding her trustworthiness poll numbers.
Baroness Token – the overpromoted Conservative peer formerly known as Sayeeda Warsi has announced today in The Times that she is quitting the Leave team to campaign for Remain in the EU referendum. No one will be more surprised by
On Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a 2-1 decision upholding the 2015 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision to impose “Net Neutrality” on Internet service providers, treating the Internet like a public utility.
One of the main arguments Hillary Clinton and her supporters are using to dispute a damning new State Department Inspector General report on her use of a private email server for official business when Clinton was Secretary of State is claiming the report indicates Colin Powell essentially did the same thing when he headed the State Department.
President Barack Obama joked that people shouldn’t believe everything they read on the internet after student at a town hall meeting asked him about smoking weed.
The South China Morning Post finds some humor in the spectacle of Chinese President Xi Jinping calling for “greater tolerance of ‘well-intentioned’ criticism online of the authorities in China” only to see comments on his remarks banned.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demands that the world stop the bullying of women on the internet.
The BBC chronicles the misadventures of 29-year-old Jiang Yilei, a Chinese Internet sensation who works under the name “Papi Jiang.” She was a video blogger, racking up 100 million views for her amusing commentary videos and building a following of 11 million fans, until she disappeared.
“¿Que bolá Cuba?” President Obama tweeted from his personal Twitter account this morning. “Just touched down here, looking forward to meeting and hearing directly from the Cuban people.”
BEIJING (AP) — China’s government has highlighted big data, encryption technology and “core technologies” such as semiconductors as the key elements of its push to grow into a tech powerhouse, according to a new five-year plan released Saturday that envisages the Internet as a major source of growth as well as a potential risk.
The New York Times used a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to obtain a National Security Agency report from 2015, in which the agency’s Inspector General looked at those controversial Internet surveillance programs and determined they are far less extensive than widely suspected.
