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The illusion of sovereignty – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
In the mid 1990s, John Perry Barlow, who later (1996) fleshed out his thinking in A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, used…
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Give people the vote and they will come – 18th October 2016
Recent EU Referendum in UK had a relatively high turnout and showed people’s appetite for direct democracy. On 18th October, Cybersalon.org jointly…
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Give people a vote and they will come – 18th October 2016
Digital Direct Democracy activists are invited to our next meet up on 18th October at 7PM Newspeak House A discussion of the tools…
Read More » Unlinked – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally posted on pelicancrossing.net When he was creating the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee did two things of note. The first was…
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Return of the penguin – NetWars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on net.wars Back in January, a motherboard malfunction led me to move my desktop machine to Linux. Some effort later, and I…
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Benidorm Syndrome of Online Comments – NetWars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on net.wars In line with increasing numbers of news sites – Popular Science, The Verge and the Daily Dot, Mic – National Public Radio has decided to…
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Privacy in the Age of Pokemon – Nets.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.net “They’d probably do something stupid anyway, whether it was texting or email, or something else,” he said. He…
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Legislating the sea of holes – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
This is a sort-of summary of Wendy’s Tuesday evening talk at DC4420 – originally published on Net.Wars Loopholes within loopholes, the EFF called the…
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Staying in – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally posted on pelicancrossing.net on June 18th, 2016 The talking point going around the conference I’m attending in The Hague this week:…
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The Age of the Internet, Surveillance and Profit
There is several interesting aspects to the development of the Internet. One of the most important ones to point out is…
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