Securing the Right to Online Free Speech
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube have admitted that they are collaborating, in as the BBC news say in “Extremist images ‘fingerprinted’ by tech firms“,
building a database of known “violent or extremist material”, I’m sure if you are a regular reader of the BBC, maybe you consider this image 
that they shared a couple of years ago “extremist”, it is ISIS propaganda. So is it “violent or extremist” when it’s shared from a news article where it’s being …
What prompted me to write this is the result of a simple Google search for the word “Jihad”. Allow me to summarize the functionality of a Google search; how it is understood and intended to work.
While my knowledge comes from a variety of sources, it is in line with well-known public authority on the subject of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Matt Cutts. He is an employee and (until recently) a spokesperson for both Google and its search engine, …
This morning I had an email warning from from facebook due to an autopost failure from a WordPress blog:
Array ( [0] => Array ( [date] => 2016-01-16 12:18:48 [act] => Error [msg] => -=ERROR=- Array ( [Warning] => [Error] => Your message couldn’t be sent because it includes content that other people on Facebook have reported as abusive. ) [extInfo] => | PostID: xxxx – Iran: “American sailors started crying after arrest” |im [type] => E [nt] => Facebook …
It’s where Kafka meets Orwell’s 1984, all I can say is, I am lucky not to be in Quebec, and I guess this is what they voted for.
Despite warnings from real human rights groups and freedom of speech advocates, it looks like they have gone full fascist and Bill 59 will become law shortly, lets hope it does not spread, sadly it can’t be reversed, because once enforced, to even oppose it would probably be considered hate speech …
VPN offer far more security than the proxy servers which most people are used to using, when using commercial paid for services proxy server accounts are normally much cheaper and simpler to set-up for the client which is their only benefits over VPNs.
If you are just wanting to view content or media in other regions, and will likely have high bandwidth usage, you are better off staying with a proxy service. I have set-up VPN accounts for clients, mostly …
This has been driving me nuts, Avast, an Anti-Virus product, I have in the past recommened have been flagging JihadWatch.org as having malware, with warnings such as “Infection Blocked”, “Avast WebShield has blocked a harmful web page or file” and “A Threat has been detected”, of course this is not true,
I first got notification of the issue last week, it happens, I’ve seen it a couple of times before, infact AVG another anti-virus company followed Avast and also …