Category: internet

Who Really Owns Big Digital Tech?

Commentary By now it should be perfectly clear that the most prominent Big Digital companies are not strictly private, for-profit companies. As I argued in “Google Archipelago,” they are also state apparatuses, or governmentalities, undertaking state functions, including censorship, propaganda, and surveillance. Katherine Boyle, “a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz where she invests in companies that…


Senators Begin Amending Proposed Online Streaming Act Aimed at Regulating the Internet

A Senate committee is rewriting Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act proposed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, after it passed third reading in the House of Commons in June. The Senate has been petitioned by multiple large corporations to amend the bill, including YouTube, Apple Music, and Spotify. The Standing Senate Committee on Transport…


Assets of the Wealthy Shrink, and Internet Technology Moguls Drop on China’s Rich List

News Analysis A newly released list of China’s 100 richest people indicates that the total wealth of entrepreneurs, in particular fortunes in Internet technology, diminished significantly. Experts believe that this may be related to the overall economic decline and that their assets would be further reduced from a future trend. Compared with the year before,…


Russians More Likely to Tap Cables Than Cut Them: UK Defence Analyst

A British defence analyst says the recent damage to an undersea telecommunications cable off the coast of Scotland is unlikely to have been carried out by the Russians, who are more likely to be fitting devices that would extract information. Extra police officers were sent to the Shetland islands after an undersea telecommunications cable was damaged…


LIVE: State Dept Joins Globalist Movement On Internet Rules; New Programs Looks to End Online Anonymity

The U.S. State Department has joined a globalist movement pushing for rules for the internet, with the new “Declaration for the Future of the Internet.” Notably missing from the signatories are China and Russia, and the declaration ties to ongoing debates on how and if the internet should be controlled by common global laws. In…


State Dept Joins Globalist Movement On Internet Rules; New Programs Looks to End Online Anonymity

The U.S. State Department has joined a globalist movement pushing for rules for the internet, with the new “Declaration for the Future of the Internet.” Notably missing from the signatories are China and Russia, and the declaration ties to ongoing debates on how and if the internet should be controlled by common global laws. In…


State Dept Joins Globalist Movement on Internet Rules; New Programs Look to End Online Anonymity

The U.S. State Department has joined a globalist movement pushing for rules for the internet, with the new “Declaration for the Future of the Internet.” Notably missing from the signatories are China and Russia, and the declaration ties to ongoing debates on how and if the internet should be controlled by common global laws. In…


LIVE 10:30 AM ET: State Dept Joins Globalist Movement On Internet Rules; New Programs Looks to End Online Anonymity

The U.S. State Department has joined a globalist movement pushing for rules for the internet, with the new “Declaration for the Future of the Internet.” Notably missing from the signatories are China and Russia, and the declaration ties to ongoing debates on how and if the internet should be controlled by common global laws. In…


LIVE 10/24, at 10:30 AM ET: US State Dept. Joins Globalist Movement On Rules for Internet; New Programs Look to End Online Anonymity

The U.S. State Department has joined a globalist movement pushing for rules for the internet, with the new “Declaration for the Future of the Internet.” Notably missing from the signatories are China and Russia, and the declaration ties to ongoing debates on how and if the internet should be controlled by common global laws. In…


China Again Ranks as ‘The World’s Worst Environment for Internet Freedom’: Report

China has again been ranked as the world’s worst abuser of internet freedom by a rights advocacy group, which also reported the communist regime has long sought to push its repressive model abroad. “For the eighth consecutive year, China remained the world’s worst environment for internet freedom,” Freedom House said in its latest report published…