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Book review: Kill All Normies
I’ve just finished reading “Kill All Normies” by Angela Nagle, a thoroughly enjoyable experience for anyone who is interested in Internet culture wars and how politics is shaping and being shaped by...
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The Memification of knowledge: Is the Internet making us less informed?
I love the Internet. Games. Netflix. Twitter. Cat gifs. Memes. The whole world’s knowledge at your fingertips. Expert opinion, peer reviewed articles, books in the public domain, online...
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What can the Copyright Directive vote tell us about the state of digital rights?
As we have been covering in the last couple of articles, a controversial EU Copyright Directive has been under discussion at the European Parliament, and in a surprising turn of events, it voted to...
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Is there such a thing as Internet politics?
In 2004, one of my favourite Machinima “Red vs Blue” released a short called “Real Life vs the Internet” showing the disparities between our online and offline existence. One of my favourite sections...
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The dangers hidden in the proposed Copyright Directive
“We all filter down here” This is a short post to bring together a few resources about the important vote taking place at the European Parliament on the proposed Copyright in the Digital Market...
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Can the internet be made safe for children?
Evergreen cartoon It’s a dance as old as (digital) time. When faced with a challenge, politicians will look for a scapegoat in which to assign the blame of a complex issue, and propose allegedly easy...
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New EU Directive threatens the Internet as we know it
You shall not pass! And so it has come to this, the great copyright battle of our time. After a troubled process that has spanned various stages of development, we finally have a proposed compromise...
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People involved in the Internet Regulation area have a recurring joke that the field is like being stuck in some form of digital Groundhog Day, in which we are re-living 1997 all over again. This is...
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