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Pirate MEPs agreed that yesterday's outage (4 October) of Facebook and other networks could have been avoided. The solution would have been interoperability: interconnection of individual networks managed by different providers. The European Pirates have been pushing for interoperability at the European level in the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA). […]
'killing Democracy Once And For All: The Global Elite's Coupd'etat That Is Destroying Life As We Know It' Source: Robert J. Burrowes Listen to article Politically savvy individuals know that democracy has rarely existed and probably never outside small groups of humans who deliberately organize themselves to share power or grant it temporarily to one or a small number of people for a particular purpose. In most contexts, ‘democracy’ is simply a label used to deceive the unwary into believing that ordinary people have a say in how we are governed. But this has never been the case in any p...
By Robert J. Burrowes* Politically savvy individuals know that democracy has rarely existed and probably never outside small groups of humans who deliberately organize themselves to share power or grant it temporarily to one or a small number of people for a particular purpose. In most contexts, ‘democracy’ is simply a label used to deceive the unwary into believing that ordinary people have a say in how we are governed. But this has never been the case in any political framework on a larger scale. Robert J. Burrowes Whatever victories have apparently been achieved in the long struggle to...
URL copied to clipboard Kyrgyzstan is in shock following the murder of Aizada Kanatbekova, who was ‘bride-kidnapped’ (abducted in order to be forced into marriage) in the centre of Bishkek, the country's capital. On 7 April, Kanatbekova was found strangled in a car next to the body of her kidnapper, who had taken his own life. It became clear that the police knew the car's licence plate, the name of the suspect and his phone number, but still "did not manage" to save the woman's life. Kanatbekova, 27, had been planning to travel to Turkey for work, after finishing university. On 8 Apr...
Content courtesy of the Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the European Union (NL PermRep) How will disinformation shape European democracy in the years to come and how far-stretching are its consequences? The Dutch Permanent Representations to the EU is inviting you for an online discussion on this topical issue in the light of the upcoming Parliamentary elections in various European countries. The pandemic and the lockdown have shown the power of online platforms, allowing us to connect and engage with others stuck in the confined spaces of their homes. At the s...