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jean lievens
July 22, 2016 4:06 AM
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Join us and take action! Send a message to your regulator
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jean lievens
March 25, 2016 1:10 PM
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The spat between the actor and former State Department staffer Alec Ross frames an issue that hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves in the presidential race.
- 2016/03/23
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jean lievens
January 7, 2016 10:17 AM
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Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom.
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jean lievens
November 13, 2015 3:26 AM
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It has to be said: the cat pictures might not be enough. The internet definitively sucks sometimes. It’s a willing and fertile host to our most objectionable prejudice, anger and desire; an open marketplace for exploitation, child porn and illicit drugs and weapons. It provides a container for our greed, impatience and emotional evasiveness, and its liberating potential often feels like a false promise buried in a much larger mountain of disconnection, voyeurism and social media-fuelled narciss
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jean lievens
September 22, 2015 2:37 PM
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So let's talk about ad blocking.
You might think the conversation about ad blocking is about the user experience of news, but what we're really talking about is money and power in Silicon Valley....
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jean lievens
April 14, 2015 4:19 AM
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Computers and telecommunications have revolutionized and disrupted all aspects of human activity, and even behavior. The impacts are broad and profound, with important consequences for governments, businesses, non-profit activities, and individuals. Networks of interconnected computer systems are driving many disruptive changes in business practices, information flows, and financial flows. Foremost amongst those networks is the Internet, much of which is global, or at least trans-national.
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jean lievens
February 20, 2015 10:11 AM
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John Perry Barlow’s visionary 1996 statement.
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jean lievens
February 5, 2015 3:27 PM
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Cyber threats are becoming more diverse, sophisticated and dangerous. Over the past year, we have seen an exponential increase in the number of commercial data breaches and the theft of trade secrets.
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jean lievens
January 29, 2015 3:11 PM
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he internet is not the answer. But who said it was? And hang on, what was the question again? The internet is a good answer to a question like “What do we call the global network of computer networks?”, but a bad response to “What would you like to drink?” The internet is a very good answer, in the sense of “approach or solution”, to the problem of sending a written message very quickly to someone on the other side of the world, but a poor one to the problem of constructing a better society.
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jean lievens
January 14, 2015 5:21 PM
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The majority of the wealth of human knowledge is owned by a few publishing companies that hoard information and make billions off licensing fees, although most scholarly articles and journals are paid for by taxpayers through government grants.
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jean lievens
January 11, 2015 7:29 AM
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Paris, 9 January, 2015 —Without even waiting for the end of investigations on the despicable attack against Charlie Hebdo on January 7th, the French government is set on increasing the counter-terrorist arsenal, first by notifying Brussels the decree implementing “terrorists” or child pornography websites blockade but also by announcing new counter-terrorism measures. La Quadrature du Net calls on citizens to reject this absurd escalation and to show determination in defending freedom of expression and information.
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jean lievens
January 8, 2015 2:22 PM
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When media guru Marshall McLuhan declared back in the 1960s that “Every innovation has within itself the seeds of its reversal,” I had no idea what he meant. But, like his other catchy quotables — “global village,” “cool media,” “the medium is the message” — it stayed with me. Now, in the Internet age, I am seeing proof of his prophecy every day.
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jean lievens
December 25, 2014 3:38 AM
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How Facebook Killed the Internet
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jean lievens
April 3, 2016 3:03 PM
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Instagram’s most recent announcement that they are changing their feed is a symptom of a larger problem that is eating the web.
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jean lievens
January 15, 2016 1:49 PM
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Zero rating is a practice widely criticized for entering into conflict with the net neutrality principle, which is part of the guarantees to maintain a free and open Internet. Overall, the offers are intended to increase the number of Internet users, with promotions that appeal to a very specific market segment: one that does not have much experience with technology and therefore, knows only the most popular services and uses them to interact in “social media” at the lowest possible cost.
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jean lievens
December 13, 2015 10:23 AM
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“The internet is shit today. It’s broken. It was probably always broken, but it’s worse than ever.”
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jean lievens
October 1, 2015 5:14 AM
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More than 100,000 people have signed a petition against a proposal that is seen as a way for the ruling military junta to monitor the web and block content.
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jean lievens
July 24, 2015 6:50 PM
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"The world’s worst internet law" is going all out to destroy our online freedoms -- here’s how to protect your privacy and save the internet.
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jean lievens
February 24, 2015 2:43 PM
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Most Americans believe that when they sign up for Internet access with a broadband provider, they are paying to access the lawful content and services of their choice.
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jean lievens
February 8, 2015 2:22 AM
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Two new social platforms are betting that people will pay for a safeguarded Internet of the future.
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jean lievens
February 2, 2015 5:58 PM
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The internet is a tracking and monitoring machine. We will ceaselessly self-track and be tracked. We’re expanding the data sphere to sci-fi levels and there’s no stopping it because too many of the benefits we covet derive from it.
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jean lievens
January 20, 2015 4:05 PM
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It is far easier for the establishment to rule as long as they can keep the people thinking that they rule themselves. U.S. elections are a sham, and U.S. politicians are a disgrace. But as long as people can vote, they feel convinced that they can influence government.
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jean lievens
January 13, 2015 2:28 AM
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Some years ago, I had a conversation with a senior minister in which he revealed that he thought the web was the internet. While I was still reeling from the shock of finding a powerful figure labouring under such a staggering misconception, I ran into Sir Tim Berners-Lee at a Royal Society symposium. Over coffee, I told him about my conversation with the minister. “It’s actually much worse than that,” he said, ruefully. “Hundreds of millions of people now think that Facebook is the internet.”
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jean lievens
January 8, 2015 2:49 PM
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Center for Democracy and Technology (blog) Protect the Internet: Support the IANA Transition Center for Democracy and Technology (blog) But getting the details right is essential to a successful transition, and accomplishing this through a...
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jean lievens
December 26, 2014 11:00 AM
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The IndieWeb movement is a small group of about 400 passionate people who own their own place on the web. We want to increase this group in size, by helping you to join.
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