In this issue:
- CCP monitors foreign WeChat to tune domestic censorship
- Negative oil price triggers trading software bug, wipes out trader
- What to do about fake news when the gatekeepers are worse
- Open server triggers privacy fears around contact tracing apps
- Canada’s privacy commissioners issue statement on contact tracing apps
- Zoom acquires Keybase
- The dream is over: Google scuttles smart city plan for Toronto
- Facebook assembles 20-person “Supreme Court of Free Speech”
- GitHub takedown Popcorn Time BitTorrent client, again
- Youtube deletes David Ickes’ channel
This week on the Axis:
- Software model behind global lockdown turns out to be garbage
- Jesse Hirsh on the acceleration of cybercrime
- Charles Hugh Smith: The Way of the Tao is Reversal
- AoE Salon #3: The Future is Inherently Political
Show notes: https://AxisOfEasy.com/145
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This Week’s Quote: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”…by ???
H. L. Mencken