Internet articles
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The Freedom That Once Was The Internet
The Freedom That Once Was The Internet Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It’s time to declare as regards the internet of old: Requiescat in Pace. In this photo illustration an internet page is displayed on a computer screen in London, England, on April 13, 2006. (Scott Barbour/Getty Images) It’s dead. We might as well face it. Nearly every large application and website in existence, meaning most of what people use on what we call the internet,...
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How the internet is deleting the past
Last year, Nanna Thylstrup wrote about the precarity of our digital past. Old blogs, once thriving with activity and personal memories, are unceremoniously deleted by platforms and users. The Internet Archive, a bastion of digital preservation, finds itself under constant assault. Search engines continue eroding, making locating and accessing information increasingly difficult. Movies and TV shows vanishing from streaming platforms without warning; we find out too late that our VCRs don’t work...
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All The Ways the Internet is Surveilling You
Your personal information is continuously harvested and analyzed by countless data brokers eager to sell to the highest bidder. From your name to your online activities, to your employment details and even your real-time location — all are on the market for anyone interested.