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Big Sister Theresa May and the Rise of Anti-Islam in the UK

Big Sister Theresa May and the Rise of Anti-Islam in the UK

Never before in my lifetime has Britain had such an odious Home Secretary as Theresa May. In her racist policies, she surpasses even Jack Straw’s rendition to torture and his support for Tony Blair’s illegal war in Iraq. As if things were not bad enough, May has pushed the boundaries beyond what would be acceptable even […]

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Wake Up People: Your Life is an Open Book

Wake Up People: Your Life is an Open Book

Without warning, Microsoft, long considered the prince of evil for all things on the Internet, recently decided to be the good guy when it comes to protecting individual privacy on the Web. Microsoft added a Do Not Track embed to version 10 of its Internet Explorer browser. When someone uses it, it tells advertisers not […]

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Want to Lose All Privacy and Personal Security? There’s Apps For That

Want to Lose All Privacy and Personal Security? There’s Apps For That

By Ron Steinman For some time I have been thinking about apps and what they do for us and to us. Apps may be great, but they are also a huge problem. To back me up, comes a story called “Selling You on Facebook” in The Wall Street Journal, yes, the Wall Street Journal, the […]

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Facebook IPO: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook IPO: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg

“We don’t build services to make money; we make money to build services.” Mark Zuckerberg, his I.P.O letter. As we all know, Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg are on the verge of a massive I.P.O. It may be the biggest sale of a stock in history. Mr. Zuckerberg says he does not think in terms of […]

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SOPA: Piracy or Freedom

SOPA: Piracy or Freedom

In case you did not know it, SOPA in everyday English is Stop Online Piracy Act. Its main supporters are in Hollywood, TV, big music, and other major entertainment. Its opponents are the largest Web companies and the legions of naïve people who believe the passage of such an act would impede their right to […]

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