China Increases Internet Control, Citing “National Security”
While officials claim the measures are being put in place to protect national security, most of the deliberately ambiguous wording of the new law is aimed at curtailing dissent....
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WikiLeaks: NSA Guilty of “Economic Espionage Against France”
The NSA is guilty of "economic espionage against France," according to a new report by WikiLeaks. One can only imagine the outrage if it were discovered that a foreign...
DHS Admits to “Behavioral Detection” Video Surveillance Program at Airports
The current surveillance state has reached a place where it is beginning to resemble the 2002 film Minority Report. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now attempting to...
Chinese Hack of U.S. Employee Database Worse Than First Reported
As more is learned about the recent cyber-attacks on U.S. federal employee records by Chinese hackers, it is becoming increasingly clear that the problem is much worse than many...
“Job-creating” ObamaTrade Requires Subsidies for Displaced U.S. Workers
In a glaring example of Orwellian double-think, advocates of ObamaTrade say that it will create jobs while at the same time saying that we must pass a Trade Adjustment...
Paul Ryan’s Pelosi-style Freudian Slip Exposes Truth About ObamaTrade
The plan is to make the TPP and other parts of ObamaTrade public prior to a congressional vote, right? Wrong! And in a classic Freudian slip, House Ways and...
DEA Dodges Federal Law; Triples Surveillance
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is doing more than its share of spying on Americans' phone calls, texts, e-mails, and other electronic communications. In the past decade, the federal...
China Hacks Government, Corporate Networks to Build Database on Americans
Only a week after Russian "crime syndicates" hacked the IRS database and stole information on the tax returns of more than 100,000 people, China was blamed for "one of...
Orwellian Doublethink in the War on Terrorism
The war on terrorism, which the United States has been waging since 2001, is a failure for a myriad of reasons, but chiefly because it is a farce. Setting...
FCC Argues to Shackle Internet
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler tried to validate regulating the Internet by relating a personal story. But his story is only half truthful — and the half that’s missing is...
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Regulating Your e-Freedom
The FCC, despite being told by courts on two occasions that it is not allowed to regulate the Internet, is going ahead with “Net Neutrality” rules — rules that...
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Tech Industry Urges Obama: Don’t Weaken Encryption
Strong encryption is an invaluable part of protecting privacy and liberty in the digital age. As more and more calls come from government agencies to ban encryption, the tech...
FBI Operating Secret Domestic “Spy-Plane” Air Force
The FBI has been secretly operating a small "civilian air force" of low-flying planes equipped with high definition cameras that capture video and still pictures of the area below...
Net Neutrality 2.0: Plans to Shift Control of Internet to Internationalists
With the FCC regulating ISPs in the United States and some as yet unknown international organization assuming control of the assignment of Internet addresses and domains, we may be...
Net Neutrality Faces Legislative and Legal Challenges
Mired in "governmentese" and steeped in double-talk, Net Neutrality has proven to be a tangled web of deceit. Now that the FCC's order has been entered in the Federal...