Category Archives: Surveillance state

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. v. Google Alleges First Amendment Violations via YouTube Censorship as a State Actor

Oh frabjous day! RFK, Jr. has lobbed a very big bomb at the heart of the censorship apparatus.

Snowden Warns Today’s Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like ‘Child’s Play’

Edward Snowden describes how surveillace tools have become more powerful in the past decade

The Strange Death of the Liberal Individual

Yanis Varoufakis argues that techno-capitalism has fragmented the individual by coopting attention, undermining liberty.

‘Adversarial Actors, Home and Abroad’

Which non-foreign adversarial types do elites have in mind when they promote domestic censorship and news blockades?

New California Program Wants All Hate “Incidents” Reported to the State

The CA vs Hate hotline will document any action or behavior “motivated by hate” but legally protected by the First Amendment right to freedom of expression. Similar efforts are in the works for other states and cities.

Banks Try to Make Security Customer-Friendly. Not a Good Mix.

Retail bank security ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Larry Johnson and Other Former Insiders Debunk Air Guardsman-as-Pentagon-Leaker Story as Press Cheers Arrest

The Air National Guardsman as Pentagon leaker story is comig apart. But like “six guys in a boat”, no one in polite company will say so.

Banning TikTok Could Weaken Personal Cybersecurity

Banning TikTok would be a messy business….and probably not technologically enforceable.

Feds Bust $3.4 Billion Crypto Theft, Demonstrating Ability to Penetrate Supposed Secrecy

One of the big selling points of crypto, privacy, is rapidly disappearing.

Pentagon in Panic as Second Set of Leaked Documents Gains Traction, Revealing Spying on Allies and Deteriorating Ukraine Capabilities

The Pentagon and intel chiefs are in a tizzy over a major documents leak. How serious is it?

Using Tik-Tok as a Trojan Horse, the RESTRICT Act Would Create an Internet Censorship Star Chamber

The RESTRICT Act has run into a buzz saw of well-warranted criticism. But will that be enough to stop it?