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A team from the University of Michigan published a study titled “Censored Planet: An Internet-wide, Longitudinal Censorship Observatory” where they look at censorship around the world. Things appear to be getting worse as mentioned: “What we see from our study is that no country is completely free,” said Ram Sundara Raman, U-M doctoral candidate in computer science and engineering and first author of the study. Read more ⟶

I came across another fine example in a local newspaper of the unnecessary problems caused by policies promoting sexual suppression and repression in society. I decided to translate it from Dutch to English and post it here for easy reference in the future. Read more ⟶

After Linus Torvalds got castrated and Richard M. Stallman was forced out of the organization he founded, Eric S. Raymond recently got banned as well from the mailing list of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) which he founded. Read more ⟶

Apple appears to have become the monster that they initially set out to fight. Read more ⟶

We’ve seen in the first part of this series what the origin is of sexual suppression and repression among humans according to various sources available today. In this second part we’ll take a closer look at how the biological and social mechanisms behind sexual suppression and repression are implemented. Read more ⟶

The Internet Archive posted on their blog about implementing “fact checks” and “context” notifications on the Wayback Machine, similar to how various social media platforms such as Facebook have implemented for a while now. You may recall that I blogged a few months ago about censorship on the Internet Archive by requiring users to login to view certain content. Read more ⟶

I’ve been communicating with a young man from Belgium for a few weeks, and I thought it would be beneficial for other people around the world to publish some of our email correspondence here on my blog. I’m doing this with permission from him, and I’ve changed his name to ‘John’ so that he can remain anonymous. Our correspondence has been translated from Dutch to English by me. Read more ⟶

Here’s another important reason for why you should stop using your Facebook, Google and Apple accounts for anything that’s important to you. Apart from the 30-day bans that Facebook has become known for, they’re now also completely blocking accounts used by people to register their Quest 2 VR headsets. Read more ⟶

I admire Elon Musk’s intellect, rationality and courage. Especially when he lets the sheep of the world know that they’re being fucking stupid. Read more ⟶

During past discussions I’ve often found that people mistakenly believe that where there’s easy access to lots of porn and a variety of sexual services there’s sexual freedom. For example like we can see in most Western an European societies today. But this is a misconception; the truth is the opposite. Pornography would not exist in any society where there’s true sexual freedom. Read more ⟶

Mark Fuckerberg is one of the most disgusting people living today. A true hypocrite. Here’s from “Tech Monopolies Are the Reason the US Now Has a TikTok Problem” (August 7th 2020): If you’re amused by the irony of Big Tech protecting us from an app that could be used for election meddling, given Facebook’s role in the 2016 election, the irony doesn’t stop there. Read more ⟶

Shortly after the new “national security law” became active in Hong Kong a few weeks ago, I saw a spike in traffic on the QuantumGate GitHub repository. It might have been just coincidence, but it seemed to me that perhaps people in Hong Kong and China were looking for alternative ways to hide their Internet traffic from the local criminal governments. Read more ⟶

Yesterday a number of high-profile Twitter accounts got ‘hacked’ with one of the internal ‘admin’ tools Twitter uses. Read more ⟶