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Technology

Technology articles offer in-depth analysis and opinion on digital systems, AI, biotechnology, surveillance, automation, and the philosophy of technology — exploring their impacts on individual liberty, privacy, human dignity, free speech, and everyday human experience.

We critically examine pressing issues like digital identity and programmable currency as tools of control, criminalization of online speech, automation’s erosion of human connection, AI systems that displace responsibility, public-health pretexts for restricting digital rights, biotech overreach, the loss of the human element in medicine, and technocratic architectures of control. We also explore pathways to reclaim human agency through resistance to surveillance, defense of open dialogue, and prioritization of presence and responsibility over algorithmic efficiency.

Praetorian Guard 

Revenge of the Praetorian Guard 

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None of us ever wanted to live in a country in which the ruling regime openly expresses opposition to core constitutional rights that many generations of Americans thought were guaranteed by law. The injunction of Missouri v. Biden does nothing other than remind the government of those rights. And this is precisely why the Biden administration so strongly objects. 

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We Landed a Major Blow Against the Censorship Leviathan

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One naturally wants to believe that an issue one is involved in is of world-historical importance. But as the judge himself wrote in the decision, “If the allegations made by Plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” That, my friends, is a strong claim, but as I have previously argued, an entirely accurate one.

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How I Was Canceled by MeetUp.com

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I created a Meetup group called “Covid Contrarians” in New York City. The idea was just to meet other people like me, who thought our governments were overreacting to the Covid situation. My big plan was no more than, get together and schmooze over coffee or a beer. The group lasted a few weeks before Meetup declared that it was spreading misinformation, and erased it from the website.

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CISA

CISA Was Behind the Attempt to Control Your Thoughts, Speech, and Life 

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The House Report indicates that CISA was a central actor in censoring criticism of the Covid regime in the ensuing months and years. The agency is representative of the cabal of censorial and unaccountable officials engaged in public-private partnerships designed to keep us in the dark.

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ChatGPT

What People Overlook in the AI Debate

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As Dr Narayanan indicates, ChatGPT’s responses to some computer science examination questions he posed to it were spurious, but they were phrased in such a specious manner that their falsity was not immediately apparent, and he had to check them three times before being certain that this was the case. So much for ChatGPT’s vaunted capacity to ‘replace’ humans.

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Informational No Man’s Land

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Under these circumstances, those who do their own independent research, rather than uncritically swallowing whatever “official authorities” tell them, are not the “cranks” and “conspiracy theorists” they are being made out to be, but citizens who actually understand the predicament they find themselves in, and have the courage to think for themselves, even when it draws down ridicule, censorship, and alienation from “respectable” society.

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The Censorship Hegemon Must Be Stopped

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This agency was created in the waning days of the Obama administration, supposedly to protect our digital infrastructure against cyberattacks from computer viruses and nefarious foreign actors. But less than one year into their existence, CISA decided that their remit also should include protecting our “cognitive infrastructure” from various threats.

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The Deplatforming of the “Disinformation Dozen”: More Coverage From Tracy Beanz

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Facebook responded to the White House’s incessant and abusive demands for more censorship with, “We hear your call for us to do more, and as I said on the call we are committed to working towards our shared goal.” This after a triple punch of threats were lobbed by the White House and the Office of the Surgeon General (OSG), Dr. Vivek Murthy, at social media companies in mid July 2021.

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