Facts are scarred – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.net The late Simon Hoggart once wrote that the reason to take the trouble to debunk apparently…
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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…
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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,…
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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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