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-WESTCOAST-IDEALS - FREE  
  
-MEDIA CASE - INTRODUCTION 
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-Ideals ... 
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-While the other movements of the 50s and 60s had produced  
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-tangible results, the hippie movement did not (if not  
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-counting the Woodstock festival). 
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-Thus, in the 70s some put their hopes in technology. 
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-They started developing new technologies for the alternative  
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-press, community radio stations, home-brew computer clubs  
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-and video collectives. 
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-So... 
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-o Social media is a giant phenomenon, but not entirely free! 
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-o The state of free publishing ... free anywhere, free format? 
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-  like there is a need for basics, charity, nonprofits, 
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-  there is a place for 'free media': the edge, the porn of info 
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-  and yes! good thing if social media can serve as a topic  
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-  switch board for the cybermind. Always media & bubble aware 
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-With these ideals... Where are we?? 
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-2016-04-16 
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-o latest comment, on 'corporatism', in west, on status page 
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-2016-04-20 
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-A leading journalism advocacy group said  
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-world press freedom (check wiki index 2014 page) 
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-deteriorated in 2015, especially in the 
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-Americas, warning of "a new era of propaganda". 
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-o Read short report on World Press Freedom Index 2015 
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-2016-08-08 
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-o latest comment, on auditory hallucination (refuting  
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-  the leading theory of will by Chris Frith with a synth!) 
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-  on status page 
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-  see status notes 5 and 6 
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-2016-08-12 starting this day 
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-  WE ARE AN UNOFFICIAL SUBSTITUTE 
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-  for worldpress.org headlines Europe 
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-  which we call world FREE press headlines 
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-=== 
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-skip to more recent 
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-found 2016-09-04 
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-concerning the case of our declining traffic,  
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-due to our status at twitter, google, and  
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-the comments on that on this site ... 
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-this changes everything: 
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-dark forces denigrate environmentalists as terrorists 
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-(a practice well-known to westcoast, we ran a website devoted to this naming) 
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-snippet from https://gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-test/10959-immoral-maize-definitive-account-of-chapela-affair 
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-The contact person given was Rich Levine, who previously  
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-worked for Bivings as a Monsanto web-guru. [49] The president  
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-of V-fluence is Jay Byrne, who has over 15 years experience  
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-in public relations, campaign communications and government  
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-affairs. [50] He was also the former chief internet strategist  
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-and director of corporate communications for Monsanto, where  
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-he spent a quarter of his time monitoring the web for rogue  
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-web- and activist sites. [51] In 2001, Byrne gave a presentation  
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-to a PR conference called 'Protecting Your Assets: An Inside  
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-Look at the Perils and Power of the Internet'. It gave an insight  
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-into Monsanto's use of the internet. 'A website alone won' 
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-protect your brand', Byrne told the audience, therefore it was  
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-necessary to 'Take Action, Take Control'. Ways to do this  
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-included: 'Viral marketing and other dialogue opportunities,  
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-monitoring and participation' 
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-One PowerPoint slide showed 'Monitoring' for Monsanto which  
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-included 'Daily monitoring of over 500 competitor, industry,  
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-"issues group" websites; Daily monitoring of 50+ key listservs,  
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-usergroups and chat rooms; Technology monitoring and updates  
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-including search engine programs and legal monitoring' 
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-Another chart on the PowerPoint presentation gave the difference  
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-before and after taking control of the internet to rig a search  
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-engine to go from finding hits they did not want to finding hits  
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-they did want if someone was searching for 'GM foo'’. Favourable  
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-hits included: 'Glossary of biotech terms; AgBioWorld; AgCare;  
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-FDA; Biotech Knowledge Center; CFFAR; Food Biotech Center; and  
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-Biotech Basics'. To the uninitiated these would all appear as  
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-independent sites, yet we now know that three of these are  
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-acknowledged Bivings projects BioTech Terms; Biotech Knowledge  
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-Center and Biotech Basics. Two seem to have links to Bivings  
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-AgBioWorld and CFFAR. One AgCare is a biotech lobby front in  
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-Canada, and the other the US FDA is seen by the biotech industry  
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-as an ally.  
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-Of these, the CFFAR site is the most worrying in that it denigrates  
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-environmentalists as terrorists. It is the site that Andura wanted  
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-the scientists to look at. Once you denigrate someone it becomes  
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-easier to attack them, both physically and mentally and even  
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-intellectually. Byrne finished by quoting Michael Dell, the  
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-CEO of Dell computers: 'Think of the internet as a weapon on  
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-the table. Either you pick it up or your competitor does  
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-but somebody is going to get killed.' [52]  
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-=== 
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-is it possible to link companies that promote, finance these practices  
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-not only to the fate my twitter, google status but also to the 2008  
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-attempt on my plz swype, the manipulation of google to hide  
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-violence against green in the EU (nl, uk) as reported in 2014? 
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-(this is NOT what WE're about, of course) 
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-=== 
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-Google seems to focus on more friendly 
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-news, projects, info when it comes  
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-to green, and avoid govt. criticism 
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-(info on green activism, victimization 
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- both physically and in words, status) 
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-update 01 
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-Google Openly Advertizes Power to Kick 
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-Sites off the 'Open' Web in NewsWeek 
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-Our sites were first affected 2013 ... 
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-but wait, what's the news (2016-01-25) 
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-ISIS sites are next - yeah right 
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-[ non ironic 
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- so they weren't already? - we bet they were! ] 
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-ANALYSIS - A WEB 3.0? 
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-google in the news 
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-o cnet - AI is important to them 
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-o newsweek - recently showed of plan to kick sites off the 'open' web 
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-o zdnet - they plan to put a cross at side of non https sites 
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-o zdnet - they will enforce safe ads through chrome browser 
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-o last years brazil, s-am has left the ggl dns universe 
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-o last month [jan16] govt requested silval to work against rad 
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-o last week in nyt international - ggl is anti nonprofit 
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-google's credos 
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-o dont be evil 
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-o if you dont want anyone to know,  
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-should you be doing it in the first place 
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-terminal thoughts on 70s publishing ideals 
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-We think for google the end of non-profit Web 
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-has a certain logic, because it connects 
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-information to people, or vv. 
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-It's related to current 'end of audience'-media... 
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-It's no use to publish non-profit information 
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-because in this media world people will never  
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-hear from something they have not already set  
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-up their devices to hear about - the info consumer  
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-has 'sourced choice' (fixed sources, choice therein) 
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-The 70s westcoast ideals of publishing for all has  
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-grown to be more about connecting one to one,  
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-using search. 
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-Search and web is often about facts or context, not an  
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-extensive attempt at persuasion - that can happen  
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-on facebook or twitter and for the big social issues,  
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-like those listed on wikipedia article 'social issues'. 
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-So, there is no free audience for all, 
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-not provided by google at least: 
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-  Google is not in business for the 
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-  publisher's dreams or some 70s 
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-  westcoast ideals... 
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-We're dead, the Web's dead ;-) 
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-Long Live the Internet [wired.com] 
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-Greets! 
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-Westcoast Ideals 
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-westcoast-ideals.com 
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-Continued 
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-(yes, now on 1 page :-) 
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-June 1st 2016 
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-the EU initiative 'online civil courage' 
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-is now being enforced - corporate justice 
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-as i wrote, has arrived. Twitter punishes 
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-and seeks purpetrators with a crude algorithm. 
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-We estimate that in the first two weeks 
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-a whopping 250.000 europeans had their right 
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-to free speech violated. If 1 in 10 would have 
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-counted on social media to promote a company 
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-and sued for 500.000 euros, we lost 12.5B  
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-in potential economically, but intellectually 
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-for certain. After this black day of censorship 
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-and corporate execution or justice ... we 
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-(at this site) lost 3 months of tweets and 
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-traffic to the site. 'Because' we were part of 
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-its social discussion ... or 'on the panel' 
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-before clock struck 12 ;).  
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-Thanks for the promise of 'reach', twitter! 
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-Or can we say, hey twitter is as basic as  
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-a telco or ad company. So ... 
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-this is EU totalitarian media control. 
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-UPDATE 1 
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-FINAL CALL - SAVE THE WEB! AVOID A BRAVE NEW ONE 
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-tweet (with common dreams article 2013 and our podcast (mp4) 
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-(2m48s) on dutch 'google manipulation' starting january 2016) 
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-Common dreams vs Google's #controlstate software 2013  
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-https://commondreams.org/views/2013/05/01/googles-spymasters-are-now-worried-about-your-secrets  
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-AND my podcast 2m48s january 2016  
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-https://westcoast-ideals.com/report_feb16_mercy_of_the_beast.mp4 
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-=== 
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-UPDATE 2 
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-IT's HAPPENING, BB AWAKENS - IT's CALLED "HISTORIC" 
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-neuromancer - we linked our minds to phones, web,  
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-social media, fb, twt, ggl+, ggl search 
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-cyberpunk & cyberculture - we lost our selves in  
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-new images of and for our selves - body, cities 
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-gothic 
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-cyberia - in the 80s and 90s we grew up with 70s  
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-westcoast ideals, open free press, media, tech 
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-2005 half of ppl in west have broadband, always on  
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-internet access - 2009 twt and fb take off - the wall 
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-2014-2016 bb - companies, legal persons, start  
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-acting for ... for the govt in west - m's case dig,  
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-yelp: ggl "kierewiet", bbc does experiment w fb  
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-'community standards' that fb enforces, laywer  
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-feb16: "historic step" in internet, media history 
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-=== 
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-Met Police considers scrapping 1,000 neighbourhood  
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-PCSOs By Nick Beake Home Affairs Correspondent,  
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-BBC News - 9 September 2015 
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-Read 
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-Aantal strafzaken bij rechtbanken gedaald 
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-(The Number of Criminal Cases in Holland Decreases) 
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-Read 
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-Gevangenissen in Nederland blijven maar leegstromen 
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-(Jails in Holland keep getting Emptier) 
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-Read 
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-Sociale netwerken en jeugdcriminaliteit: netwerk  
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-jongeren (Optimistic Feature on Social Networks  
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-and Youth Criminality) 
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-Read 
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-alternative 
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-druidry & restorative justice 
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-Read 
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-KEY Q - The Q is... will the internet save society 
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-from crime when it is answering directly to govt 
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-or has a one-size-fits-all 'community standard'? 
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-=== 
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-[more recent, written somewhat less chaotic ...] 
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-Digital Media Firms, Government & Freedom Nov2015-Jun2016 
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-An Account of coming to terms with, and documenting, the loss of  
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-freedom & 'classic' justice in EU since 2013 and Paris Attacks 
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-22 issues discussed here ... 
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-SUMMARY - THE PROBLEM WITH THIS ARGUMENT 
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-So, what are we trying to tell you? 
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-o the westcoast ideals of open and free press, media 
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-  are in danger. the govt is putting direct requests 
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-  towards silicon valley internet giants to make 
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-  the web more polite and avoid radicalisation 
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-o google by ways of its position (search, dns, and  
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-  its plan to enforce safe ads and https) could 
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-  create a safe, but NOT OPEN web 3.0 
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-  (and they'll call this: kicking sites off the 
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-  /open/ web, strangely enough) 
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-The trouble is that the facts around which the story 
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-above revolves is in a way a media story, and partially 
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-quite technical, and more a digital security story. 
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-So, we think, hardly anybody sees the story, or 
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-perceives the story this way (but it's more than 
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-merely a matter of perception, the web is changing!). 
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-So, finally (for now), say you are a cnet tech news 
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-reader... what are signs this is happening? 
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-o check out the red and blue underlined stories 
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-  in this bookmark screenshot of cnet stories dec15-feb16 
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-  there are 4 or 5, plus 3 stories about pages getting 
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-  kicked off facebook, in which it enforces its 
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-  community standards regulation, which are very vague 
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-  and strange in principle, considering facebook is 
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-  used by a global audience without one-size-fits-all 
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-  'community standards'. 
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-o you could, it's up to you, see that MORE stories 
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-  than in the 3 months before dec15 (sep-nov15) 
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-  have this 'let us (automatically) purge all 
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-  aggression, unpoliteness (and terror) for you'-ishness 
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-THE PROBLEM - A LITTLE PURGE? ANY SIZE A PROBLEM! 
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-Concerning the web 3.0, we admit it's a small problem. 
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-We estimate that roughly 10-30 million personal 
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-freeform paid webpages exist (some webstats), These are mostly  
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-well-paid, well-positioned individuals. They have been or 
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-will be hit by google's https enforcement, but they can 
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-afford to solve the problem and get a certificate. 
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-The worrying part is the freeform, mostly paid 'activist' 
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-part of the websites, which we estimate to number 300 
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-thousand. These are probably profiled to be 'amateur' 
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-by twitter and probably suffer from both this authority 
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-profiling and google's https enforcement. A third, 90 
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-to 100 thousand, might even have been included in the  
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-125 thousand deletion of radical accounts on twitter. 
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-A BIG PROBLEM? - WELL... IT'S CONTROL! 
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-The fact that just 2 suffer minor measures against 1 
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-who are deleted would indicate the harshness of such 
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-a 'politeness purge'. It's an estimate. But the number 
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-only depends on a chosen degree of acceptable speech. 
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-And speech /should/ be very free. Only direct threats to 
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-safety should matter. The rest /is/ state control. 
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-Govts in the west went from ... 
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-"hiding behind private companies for 
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-digital snooping, says UN" tweet 
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-... to (stealthy) control 
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-To be continued... 
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-Already here - 'govt->ggl twt->control' in the news again 
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-2016-02-27 
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-Facebook wants to crack down against hate speech on migrants 
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-2016-01-19 
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-Facebook confronts online hate in Europe-wide campaign 
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-Trying to find a balance ... ;) 
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-Zuckerberg said: "There's not a place for this kind of content on Facebook.  
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-Learning more about German culture and law has led us to change the  
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-approach," he said. 
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-AND 
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-"Equally important are the support of counter speech, the promotion of  
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-grassroots movements that fight extremist views 
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-SO ... 
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-What's exactly, of people's input is left on fb to... 'counter'?? 
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-To be continued ... 
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-2016-03-27 
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-First i kept thinking 'govt is obsolete', trying to grasp 
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-power like this. Then a switch, i thought that... /is/ 
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-corporatism at work! Does anybody see it this way too? 
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-Yes, this is a March 27th opinion article in The Guardian 
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-by Evgeny Morozov ... 
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-The state has lost control: tech firms now run western politics 
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-Heavy implications for justice, democracy, society! 
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-"Many httphosted zeldas and zorks vanished forever in the meantime!" 
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-Society irreversibly affected. Personal afterthought 
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-(originally on twitter) 
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-To be continued ... 
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-2016-04-20 
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-A leading journalism advocacy group said  
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-world press freedom  
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-deteriorated in 2015, especially in the 
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-Americas, warning of "a new era of propaganda". 
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-Read short report on World Press Freedom Index 2015 
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-To be continued ... 
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-2016-04-24 
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-STOP ERDOGAN 
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-blijf met je klauwen van onze schrijvers 
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-Since EU's Tusk violated refugees' human rights on 03/03 
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-by telling people in wars to "stay home", we ... 
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-don't care much about the EU anymore. Making concessions 
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-to Turkey doesn't help its image much either 
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-o france24 reported Turkey as sending refugees back, 
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-  moving them, jailing them, where some suffered abuse. 
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-  - basically a nation as unwelcoming to some as the EU itself 
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-o while turkey is suppressing free press,  
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-  so how can EU know what it is dealing with it?  
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-  - that's for sure, isn't it? 
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-you can go ask around, but the situation is such that 
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-strong language maybe can't be avoided in all cases 
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-so such an observer either excludes suppression 
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-or excludes turkey all together 
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-2016-04-29 
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-a formal analysis ... 
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-why i am so critical 
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-To be continued ... 
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-2016-05-10 
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-Facebook accused of leaving out CONSERVATIVE  
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-posts (not radical right, but directly right  
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-off-center) in trending, by an employee 
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-Facebook accused of leaving out CONSERVATIVE posts 
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-Facebook denies, for now - (read here) 
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-For certain, Facebook, and the other tech firms 
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-put themselves on this track, instigated 
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-by the French, German and US security-focused 
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-govs. Trust has been lost for certain. Already. 
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-Not even 6 months into this gov-silicon  
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-initiative. 
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-NB It has something /for/ it, something against. 
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-All issues have carers, you don't get to change  
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-all the carers' choice of theirs. A lot of good  
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-happens this way. 
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-This site focuses on how limiting expression 
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-damages progress in society however. 
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-1) 
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-Freedom of expression could be like online 
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-privacy ... one should try to help the society 
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-make workable and realistic compromise. 
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-If all the techies hide in absolutism, the tech  
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-will be worse of, and society - Obama said 
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-something like that at Austin SXSW Con lately. 
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-2) 
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-Westcoast tries to thread together the developments 
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-and paint a picture of it, to help transparancy, 
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-early warning for authoritarianism and things 
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-like cyberpunk's big business taking over... 
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-corporatism. We'll try to put up here what seems 
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-happening, almost happening and what position 
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-that brings us in, plain english, politically. 
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-(not: polite, not: safety focused) ... the internet 
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-can grow new systems, westcoast is not about  
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-'fuses'. Once there's weapons, jails, central power 
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-... communication better enter new stages as well. 
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-(and that's /for/ expression ;) peace & progress! 
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-To be continued ... 
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-2016-05-15 
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-As deletion and censorship incidents pile up this may16... 
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-  
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-Bloomberg radio news at 2016-05-15 19.00cet: 
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-tide is turning against ISIS both online and on the battle field 
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-Okay, that may be the military course that the West wants. 
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-But overhere, knowing what that means, /online/: it means  
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-sinking to the level of the most aggressive party on the West' 
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-side: Turkey (violence upon different own parties and media) 
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-A dutch politician, columnwriter and a publisher had their 
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-pages removed. Our guess says, based on xp, that is world 
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-news because these people have some kind of voice anyway 
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-(also without a facebook page). 
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-So we estimate: 
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-[10]min to [100]max times 10 waves [during Turkey' 
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-actions] times 40 countries 
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-means 4000 to 40,000 have probably been affected, 
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-without being involved in any kind of violence. 
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-That's the dark part of this online victory 'on ISIS'. 
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-The West's campaign is now based on war, violence  
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-/and/ suppression, which happens as we speak, according 
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-to us, in /such measure/ (4000-40,000 people affected). 
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-We're happy there's a real web to report freely. 
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-But this is a dark month for freedom. 
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-To be continued ... 
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-2016-05-16 
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-Luckily, the day after having this dark perspective 
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-on the nature of the web and the role of the tech 
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-firms, the New York Times international (news paper) 
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-offered a more positive outlook: 
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-You could say: the tech firms transformed and  
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-are no longer a platform (my term) but 
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-are curators for news and entertainment 
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-Still means we lost neutrality and democracy though ;) 
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-To be continued ... 
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-2015-05-19 
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-Facebook ... acting (deletion 01, deletion 02) 
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-on behalf of aggressive ww3 effort partners or just  
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-not neutral, and highly unpredictable ... does it  
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-just /act/ like it's censoring a lot on behalf  
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-of Turkey? ;-) 
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-Here's more on the algorithms. 
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-The Real Bias Built In at Facebook - read here (NYTi) 
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-Algorithm that decides what goes in the feed ... 
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-values comments and sharing. All this suits cont//ent  
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-designed to generate either a sense of oversize delight  
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-or righteous outrage and go viral, hoaxes and  
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-conspiracies as well as baby pictures, happy  
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-announcements (that can be liked) and  
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-important news and discussions 
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-I can only say New York Times international 
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-(algorithms, 'admit they're not neutral', and tech  
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-transformed from platform to 'curator' of news) 
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-is a lot milder than us from time to time, or 
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-the Guardian, which posted an opinion item 
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-which said the gov already lost control to the tech 
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-firms. 
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-The state has lost control: tech firms now run  
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-western politics - read here (Guardian) 
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-Maybe safest to say is that the democracy 
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-has been killed in 'big-audience cyberspace' for  
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-commerce, the illusion of security. 
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-And that while the idea of 'Europe' was sold to  
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-its citizens under the promise of Europe to use 
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-'soft power' to make the world better. 
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-Now we're /experiencing/ supression and we don't 
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-know who to blame. The gov, the firms or some 
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-algorithm. Maybe 'the machines' in all the scifi 
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-movies were just not transparant enough too? :) 
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-To be continued ... 
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-2016-05-20 
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-Keeping the anti-police violence in France in mind, 
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-westcoast is not asking for revolution. It's just  
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-that the internet allows one to get up to speed 
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-on media freedom. Again, we do believe media freedom,  
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-new stages in communication is just as fundamental as 
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-actual freedom of speech. But revolution is too much, 
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-the internet has an intrinsic freedom, and the force 
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-behind it is the force of speech. It will not stop. 
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-The internet gives people an information advantage 
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-because the line from war/industry (perspectives, 
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-defamation), to gov to tech firms to /one's own/ 
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-freedom of speech online is short. The line is  
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-short and feedback on censorship is still doable  
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-and trustworthy (can you print that 404 Page not  
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-found for me?, and the likes). Although the matters 
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-on social networks are more graded (profile,  
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-algorithm, and provided audience). 
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-On twitter and facebook, and the web, it is very 
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-well possible to criticize in the form of quite 
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-technical or philosophical messages. 
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-Specific accusations or defamation can lead to 
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-prosecution, or result in other reactions. 
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-If your expression of discontent is about how you 
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-were treated by a certain party, be it religious, 
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-government, police, military, a relation or a 
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-criminal? The balance you want to strike is  
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-between a message that points to you, to resque 
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-you, and towards them, which endangers you more 
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-(again). 
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-We can only say, if you want to be unerasable. 
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-Don't seek for it on the internet, be that thing 
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-yourself, alive. Be a living insult towards war  
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-and force for example. But don't organize. 
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-Yes. You want to retreat. The rich retreat, 
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-the old retreat. Get both. Double retreat :). 
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-Speak from wisdom when you're young, be wise 
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-enough to sit back later and remember fondly. 
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-To be continued ...  
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-=== 
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-Conclusion 
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-We would want to, but we can't change the nature 
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-of the Web as it is now: 
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-o the majority hardly leaves the social web 
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-o a large part of the rest of the web is 
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-  accessed through apps and/or is commercial 
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-The westcoast ideals have faded: the 2013-2016 purge 
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-Looking at our own stats.... many brazil webpage hits  
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-indicates that google purged our sweet webpage.  
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-It has been on the Web since 1995  
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-Everyone would do their own publishing. Now everyone  
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-is on the pages of a few commercial social media sites. 
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-International press freedom is in decline 
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-since 2013, so is freedom on the social media. 
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-Communication enters new stages of development. 
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-The affected freedom is no less fundamental 
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-than affecting actual speech. 
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-Some 
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-conclusions, 2 attempts at some media theory  
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-& the EU / tech firm agreement of 1st of june 'in the press' 
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-or ... in one line 
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-Thanks 
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-Grtz 
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-SF 
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-Update 2016-10-29 A 
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-Germany's Merkel addressed several of the search and  
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-censorship questions surrounding tech firms' algoritmes 
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-(however, not the question of censorship by EU and  
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-the question of corporate action resulting in limitation 
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-of free speech and ... freedom of speech differences  
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-linked to profiling of users by the firms.) 
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-Merkel wants Facebook and Google's secrets revealed 
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-Update 2016-10-29 B 
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-Wired Magazine UK has a 6 page article on the problem 
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-that social media, comment sections online, etc face. 
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-It reports on studies into authoritarian regimes, the 
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-people that get into trouble, trolling, 'troll farms'. 
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-And Google's project Google Jigsaw and Conversation AI, 
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-which have the intention to study and automate, resp. 
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-The mentioned free speech activists and as we already 
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-were aware even trolling victims often dont want 
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-censorship, especially not automated. One feared the 
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-'delete all' option it provides ... 
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-Wired coins the digital 'justice league' (while we  
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-coined 'corporate justice'!) ... the implications 
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-is an erosion of human rights (free speech), sense  
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-of justice, etc. Also important to discuss is how 
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-these devs affect sense of justice in people that 
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-are growing up now and never knew justice classic. 
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-https://www.wired.com/2016/09/inside-googles-internet-justice-league-ai-powered-war-trolls/ 
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-To be continued 
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-PS Haven't worked or thought about it all for a while 
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-  but concerning the old Usenet, I tried it 
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-  and ran into very clear problems ... and once 
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-  again can sense some EU censor-trouble there 
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-  the Usenet is an ancient 'p2p' posting sys, and 
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-  really not that relevant, but i feel locked up 
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-  if there's only web and mail (without the 
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-  option to spam, in some sort of emergency :) 
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-  This is the crude 1mb report on usenet censor EU  
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-  (or NL, but it's probably the EU, so... censor EU) 
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-  1028_samhain16_usenet_post_REPORT_2part_censor_check_confirm_(1mb).zip 
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-  Thinking again: so the Internet and the Web? 
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-  ARE the same thing in EU 
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-  My God - don't know where to turn... 
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-  So, westcoast-ideals -> we 'live' it 
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-=== eof 
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-(73 links in this page) 
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-Appendix 
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-The Web 1993-2016 - some web 1.0 and web 2.0 info 
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-History of the Internet (in 2018 50 years old!) 
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-History of the Web (in 2018 25 years old!) 
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-the Web's most popular sites (wiki) 
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-the Web's most popular tech: WordPress (wiki) 
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-the 4 greatest, according to westcoast, sites  
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-ranking below the web giants of the top 25,  
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-ps. all less than 100m users 
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-pinterest - my own page 
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-reddit 
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-wordpress.com 
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-tumblr 
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-some webstats (number of sites & xx) 
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-CLAIM 
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-We claim that nowhere on the web 
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-you find info like there is on 
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-westcoast ideals - westcoast-ideals.com 
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-it's critical, technical, political 
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-and ideological - oriented at peace 
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-and well documented thinking 
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-(though it's becoming a bit like 
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-those webpages with evergrowing 
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-link-and-comment pairs of before ;) 
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-= 
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-MORE SITES WITH A CRITICAL MESSAGE  
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-Back to westcoast-ideals home top of item 
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-=== 
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-THESE ARE SOME WELL KNOWN SOURCES 
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-ifex.org 
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-indexoncensorhip.org 
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-globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu 
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-= 
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-https://www.cpj.org/ 
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-commitee to protect journalists 
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-https://commondreams.org 
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-positive, not polarized, with 
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-quality guest writers 
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-https://mediashift.org/ 
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-quite decent, but quality info 
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-https://censorwatch.co.uk/ 
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-lots of media censor watching 
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-and some general free speech 
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-news (section broad sheet) 
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-https://www.csmonitor.com/ 
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-always quality, has been 
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-on the net forever 
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-https://opendemocracy.net/ 
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-= 
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-THESE SITES ARE MORE AMATEUR-ish 
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-BUT QUITE COOL and worth checking out 
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-connexions.org 
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-popularresistance.org 
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-panarchy.org 
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-= 
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-these sites are quite overpolarized 
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-in war or anti war, imperialism, 
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-or into conspiracy: 
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-informationclearinghouse.info 
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-inconvenienttruths.net 
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-globalresearch.ca 
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-seeingtheforest.com 
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-=== 
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-MORE 
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-greenteethmm.com 
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-aim.org 
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-academia.edu 
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-thelucidlibertarian.blogspot.com - stopped in 2014 
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-kractivist.org - unav - Resource Limit Is Reached 
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-variant.org.uk - free arts & culture 
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-interaksyon.com - cool, philippino 
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-washingtonsblog.com 
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-alternativeway.net - # shop 
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-trust.org - # foundation 
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-sras.org - # school of russian and asian studies 
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-scidev.net - # edu in s-afr 
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-epic.org - el priv info centre 
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-Back to westcoast-ideals home top of item 
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