Misc

Browser alternatives to Firefox.

Economy

Fed chairman predicts ongoing rate hikes. Market crashes. Trade blamed. Politics blamed. FBI raid of Trump lawyer blamed. Never blame the Fed.

Steve Wozniak is a dufus who just dropped facebook and treats everybody else like dufuses by pretending he just discovered it sells people's data

Apple update kills iphones with third party screens.

Immigration

Why does the US have to ask for social media info from visa applicants? The NSA already has them. Just check. How could it not be checking them already?

Economy

Facebook is in trouble when slashdot users are looking for alternatives.

"Facebook's entire ecosystem is predicated on encouraging the manipulation of its users by third parties who posses the skills and financial resources to leverage Facebook's model. These are not aberrations at Facebook -- they are exactly how Facebook was designed to operate."

That's how the CIA wants it.

Zuckerberg wants government to regulate Facebook to take the heat off him. It will also stifle his competition, and he'll write the regulations. Regulation won't fix the Cambridge Analytica problem.

Man starts gunbook social media site after he and his gunowning friends were kicked off Facebook.

Regulation

New Jersey passes net neutrality law.

Regulation

Big Tech companies lobby for net neutrality because they don't want to have to pay for their traffic.

Media

Media notices IoT turns your house over to hackers.

Somebody mysteriously deleted Julian Assange's twitter account.

Politics

This baloney about Facebook protecting the integrity of elections is a cover for censorship.

"Facebook is now facing perhaps its biggest test as it looks to curb foreign electoral interference and the rampant disinformation on its platform, both of which undermine the nature of democracy."

That's a lie.

Media

Twitter to ban revenge porn and hate speech.

"On November 3, Twitter will ban hate imagery in profile headers and avatars, and the service will start suspending accounts "for organizations that use violence to advance their cause.""

I guess that means it will ban all government accounts.

Media

Wikileaks exposes Russian mass surveillance programs.

Google suppressed alternative media.  Same with alternative health media.

YouTube censorship. Economically censors Ron Paul.

Google critics fired from think tank.

Google secretly records customers.

Politics

Congress unhappy Facebook won't turn over evidence of Russian 2016 election propaganda.

Secession movement in Catalonia. More.

Police State

Cops will soon demand our phones at traffic stops.

Pay for your KFC with your face. That's not creepy.

Why police prefer drug arrests to investigating major crimes. Cost/benefit.

Cyber-security is getting worse.

Police State

Google secretly records users.

Even CBS once admitted social media is a tool of the CIA, and Google modifies search results to aid the establishment.

War

Of course the Pentagon is leveraging the IoT for war.

Mosul is completely destroyed.

Government trains internet trolls to produce fake news as part of its covert propaganda operations.

Regulation

Net neutrality promotes monopoly and corruption.

Education

Of course students are better off without laptops in classrooms.

Regulation

Complying with US emissions has caused Volkswagen cars to have power problems.

Cruelty of the minimum wage.

In a rare victory for workers, the minimum wage is falling in Missouri.

Patents are behind restrictions on repairing electronic gadgets.

Blue Whale challenge illustrates moral bankruptcy of net neutrality.

Police State

China blocks access to VPNs so people can't browse in privacy.

Education

I'd love a Netflix of education. The Khan Academy planted the seed.

Police State

NSA re-reoutes US internet traffic overseas so it can "legally" collect it all.

Police kill mostly white males.