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How to disable emergency government alerts on your mobile phone
Android users (may be somewhat different on different makes of phone). iPhone users. Because if the Covid years have proven anything, only a crazed conspiracy theorist would believe governments would...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – Panopticon edition
In late 2021, Wired, the formerly libertarian magazine that now champions surveillance and censorship, called for spying on private messaging in the name of preventing harm. Encrypted messaging apps...
View ArticleAnd we wonder why normal people avoid going into front-line politics
Following the recent controversy about the closure of a bank account of former UKIP leader Nigel Farage (he is said to have banked at Coutts, although he did not identify that lender by name in his own...
View ArticleUK’s absurdly misnamed Online Safety Bill is an abomination
In an open letter, 68 security and privacy researchers warned the draft legislation will profoundly undermine the essential security used to keep digital communications secure. We note that in the...
View ArticleCorporatist social credit includes kin punishment, naturally
“Relatives of Nigel Farage have also been refused bank accounts, former Ukip leader reveals”, reports Gordon Rayner at the Telegraph. Relatives and associates of Nigel Farage have been refused bank...
View ArticleThe gaze of strangers
I have a dilemma. I want to write a post about how creepy it is to take a photo of a stranger and put it on social media with a deniably mocking comment. The easiest way to illustrate this would be to...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – assault the surveillance state
Two unanticipated events in 2016 completely shocked our ruling class: the election of Trump in the U.S. and the Brexit vote in the U.K. Our elites did not respond by examining the disconnect between...
View ArticleFree speech and privacy are under siege across the Anglosphere
Here are three articles I saw over the last couple of days, one about Canada, one about the UK, and one about Ireland. Jordan Peterson writing in the Telegraph: As a professional, practicing clinical...
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Should the faces of the students at San Francisco State University who were...
My new video!How bad is Antisemitism on campus?Will Leftist college students give me money to kill Jews?!!! pic.twitter.com/32hMNAOpMO — Ami Horowitz (@AmiHorowitz) December 21, 2023 Ami Horowitz...
View ArticleToo late, Ms Starbird. Trust, once lost, is not so easily regained.
I hear the faint chink of the penny dropping at Guardian. This profile of misinformation specialist – read that job description as you will – Kate Starbird is predictably fawning, but they seem...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – the Digital Pound
The advantages [of the Digital Pound] over cash are, then, as clear as day. The pesky thing about cash is that it isn’t regulated. If you want to buy something in cash, you just hand it over to the...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – UK government overreaching again
But the proposed UK law would go beyond just FaceTime and iMessage to encompass all Apple products. Earlier in January, civil liberties groups including Big Brother Watch, Liberty, Open Rights Group...
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