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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Brexit – the big swindle, a European view
We need to understand better why citizens’ rights have become, together with the Northern Irish question, such an...
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Published in: 50.50‘We’re seeing a backlash to policies against online violence’
Asha Allen from the European Women’s Lobby talks about perpetrators and forms of online violence – and what’s needed...
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Published in: HomeVietnam: how to circumvent state repression
As repression of dissident groups became officially enshrined in the Vietnamese Constitution, activists, including...
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Published in: HomeRethinking resistance in post-uprisings Egypt
There is a dynamic relationship between authoritarianism and resistance, whereby authoritarianism is never absolute,...
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Published in: HomeSpies, kettling and repression - how British policing became militarised
There has been a move towards tougher legislation, ambiguous terminology, lower thresholds and legislation allowing...
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Published in: HomeThe booming industry of Chinese state internet control
The industrialization of Internet control inevitably means that the budding expression of dissent in China is being...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 5: targeted hate
Social media propaganda. Data-mining. Foreign interference in Ireland's abortion referendum. The backlash against...
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Published in: 50.50Online platforms have enabled ‘deluge of hatred against trans women’ in the UK
Social media platforms have policies against discriminatory and hateful content – but LGBTQ+ rights activists say...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Meme warfare in the Swedish context
The alt-right mobilised online to back far-right parties at Sweden's general election – but are their tactics no...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOpposing labour market Uberculosis
Uber is appealing the ruling that its drivers deserve workers’ rights. Meanwhile its drivers show strike action is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMark Zuckerberg’s dilemma – what to do with the monster he has created?
Facebook seems surprised that its monopolistic platform has been weaponised by political actors. So who's going to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Agora Europe disembarks in the UK
It is a paradoxical time in which it is possible to create a transnational, European anti-Europe league, but...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EU call it copyright, but it is massive Internet censorship and must be stopped
We citizens battling for civil rights on the Internet will meet our obligation and fight the good fight. We’ll stop...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBrazil, hijacked by post-truth
The post-truth turns democracy into an inert mass in the hands of those who dominate it. Ideas are not discussed....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Social media: unchecked foreign facts confuse the most respected Italian journos
How can you explain the fact that respected Italian reporters believe it was basically The Guardian who provoked...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRace, porn, and education: will the UK’s 2020 sex education update rise to the challenge?
The state must abandon all prudery in the interest of rectifying the time-lag leaving a whole generation of young...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Creativity must operate across borders
DiEMVoice took to the stage at Central Saint Martins in London this October, to share its creative vision for Europe...
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Published in: ourBeebTime for the BBC to be brave, bold and courageous – developing a manifesto for change
“My aim is to take the debate about the BBC beyond the need for platform prominence and to address how it can add...
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Published in: HomeThe Chomsky paradox: the responsibility of intellectuals, revisited
Locating Chomsky’s linguistics and politics ‘in their historical perspective’ sharpens many issues for their wider...
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Published in: HomeExplaining Chomsky’s strange science: a reply to Randy Allen Harris
“I am attempting to explain Chomsky’s part in the postwar overthrow of behaviourism and the dramatic triumph of the...