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John Pearce

Say Hola! to the newest route around web censorship - 0 views

theconversation.edu.au/te-around-web-censorship-11845

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shared by John Pearce on 12 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • John Pearce on 12 Feb 13
     
    "The ongoing copyright arms race between content owners and internet users has taken a new turn. Israeli firm Hola! has recently launched a suite of products that are variously designed to bypass geoblocking and accelerate internet-access speeds."
Roland Gesthuizen

Berners-Lee: Facebook 'threatens' web future * The Register - 6 views

www.theregister.co.uk/...e_says_facebook_a_thret_to_web

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 24 Nov 10 - No Cached
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  • He also warns against Phorm-style snooping and governments that restrict free speech on the web.
  • bemoans the proliferation of net-connected apps on the Apple iPhone and other smartphones
  • "continued grassroots innovation may be the best check and balance against any one company or government that tries to undermine universality."
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  • He briefly warns of cable giants who may prevent the free flow of content across the net.
  • The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 24 Nov 10
     
    Tim Berners-Lee has dubbed Facebook a threat to the universality of the world wide web. Next month marks the twentieth anniversary of the first webpage - served up by Berners-Lee at the CERN particle physics lab in Geneva - and in the December issue of Scientific American, he celebrates the uniquely democratic nature of his creation, before warning against the forces that could eventually bring it down. "Several threats to the Web's universality have arisen recently,"
Roland Gesthuizen

Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" | Video on TED.com - 4 views

www.ted.com/...are_online_filter_bubbles.html

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 04 May 11 - No Cached
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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 04 May 11
     
    "As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy."
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