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HATELAB

May 8, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In the Guardian, May 7, 2022, an article on hate speech Hate speech online has escalated to unprecedented levels. Matthew Williams, a professor of criminology, is shining a scientific light on who is behind it and why. “It is no coincidence that soaring hate-crime figures are found in countries where the extreme right is rising … [Read more…]

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Feminism, IT Failures, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about Tagged: big tech firms, Cardiff University, Civil Rights, criminology, governments, hate, hate speech, hate statistic, hate-crime, HATELAB, incels, Internet, internet hate, Matthew Williams, Misogyny, organisations, Twitter

Is society coming apart?

November 25, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In the 11/25/2021 Guardian “Long Read” is Jill Lepore on post covid society, a summary of the modern social fabric, with her usual historical detail. “Other scholars see more continuity, an unbroken tradition of liberal and social democracy on the left, from early 20th-century progressivism down to the 21st-century version. But no one disputes that … [Read more…]

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Thinking about Tagged: American Enterprise Institute, Chamath Palihapitiya, COVID-19, De Sola Pool, De Tocqueville, Franklin D Roosevelt, Government, Hegel, industrialism, Internet, liberal, libertarian, Marx, neoconservative, pandemic, Reagan, Robert Nisbet, Romantics, society, Thatcher, thinkers, utopian socialists, worldviews

About Perma.cc

July 5, 2021 by sergneri 1 Comment

Perma.cc is a service that helps anyone who needs to cite to the web create links to their references that will never break. Perma.cc prevents link rot. What is Perma.cc? When a user creates a Perma.cc link, Perma.cc archives the referenced content and generates a link to an archived record of the page. Regardless of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Future of Work, IT Failures, Science, Thinking about Tagged: archives, Broken links, citations, Harvard Law School Library, Internet, link rot, Perma.cc, references

The FCC Speaks to ALEC

May 8, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Read this closely, it is unedited, force yourself, read all the way to the end and see what our new administration is doing and thinking. It makes my skin crawl. Remarks of FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly Before the American Legislative Exchange Council’s Spring Task Force Summit Annual Summit, Charlotte, NC May 5, 2017 Thank you … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Thinking about Tagged: 2015 Net Neutrality Order, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, broadband, common carrier, Congressional Review Act, CRA, FCC, FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly, Federal Communications Commission, Internet, Municipal Broadband, Net Neutrality, Privacy, Title II, Universal Service, Voice over Internet Protocol, VoIP

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