social networks
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GCHQ taught NSA how to monitor Facebook, Twitter in real time – Snowden leak
British intelligence officials can infiltrate the very cables that transfer information across the internet, as well as monitor users in real time on sites like Facebook without the company’s consent, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Continue reading
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Write wrongs! Over 500 world-famous authors sign anti-surveillance petition
More than 500 renowned authors – including five Nobel laureates – from across the globe have signed a petition demanding an end to ‘mass surveillance’. It follows the revelations over the last few months of the US and other countries spying. Continue reading
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Media Lens: The War on Media Freedom: Undermining the Independent Alternative Online Media, EU to “Regulate” Internet Search Engines BY Nathan Allonby
A new report written for the European Commission recommends regulation of internet news, modifying search engines to control access to “conspiracy sites”, the creation of European government news agencies and the training of new “cadres of professional journalists… for… science, technology, finance or medicine”. Continue reading
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Gaddafi death: Envoy slams ‘sadistic’ triumphalism — RT
‘The faces of the leaders of ‘world democracies’ are so happy, as if they remembered how they hanged stray cats in basements in their childhoods,’ Russian envoy to NATO and the leader of the Congress of Russian Communities, Dmitry Rogozin, wrote in his twitter status on Friday. Continue reading
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How US-led regime change warriors train and misuse bloggers for their dirty games
Sometimes even the notorious Zionist hasbara trolls can be useful to reveal something interesting. Here it’s a network of bloggers trained by US-led “soft war” warriors to be used for US-led regime change operations. Continue reading
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UK: NO TO ‘GENERAL CURFEW’ POWERS
In the wake of the riots, home secretary Theresa May proposed broad new police powers ‘to impose a general curfew in a particular area’. Other politicians proposed powers to block social network sites, or to ban face coverings. Continue reading
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England riots: Government mulls social media controls
The government is exploring whether to turn off social networks or stop people texting during times of social unrest. Continue reading
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The Spanish Tahrir It’s the real democracy, stupid [by Universidad Nómada]
‘On 15th May 2011, around 150,000 people took to the streets in 60 Spanish towns and cities to demand ‘Real Democracy Now’, marching under the slogan ‘We are not commodities in the hands of bankers and politicians’. The protest was organised through web-based social networks without the involvement of any major unions or political parties. Continue reading
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