May 29, 2020
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Emily Maitlis is no media hero. She simply forgot what she and the BBC are there to do
The wrong conclusions are being drawn about Emily Maitlis’s comments on Dominic Cummings on the BBC flagship Newsnight show this week. Her remarks are not evidence of her courage, or that journalists are being gagged, or that the BBC is suddenly capitulating to the government. Continue reading
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The co-op that blocked the sale of the .org domain to private equity has a plan to democratise large parts of the internet
Around 5% of all websites use the .org domain, with the most popular being Wikipedia. These websites represent around 6% of the top 1000 websites and 7% of the top 100 000 domains. The domain itself has been controlled by ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), which is part of the non-profit… Continue reading
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Test and Trace – Two-thirds refuse to cooperate
A team of up to 25,000 contact tracers have made their first phone calls within hours – to track down people who will be told to self-isolate under the new test and trace scheme in England. It has already failed. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 