pages tagged articleENETDOWNhttp://enetdown.org//tag/article/ENETDOWNikiwiki2012-11-10T02:34:00Zpoliticisation of mainstream media, censorship, and the promise of technologyhttp://enetdown.org//outgoing/posts/2011/07/06/politicisation_of_mainstream_media_censorship_and_the_promise_of_technology/zaki2012-11-10T02:34:00Z2011-07-06T08:23:52Z
<p>Watch/read the following:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199710--.htm">What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream by Noam Chomsky</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2011/fosdem/moglen-fosdem-keynote.html">Why Political Liberty Depends on Software Freedom More Than Ever by Eben Moglen (FOSDEM 2011 Keynote)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/5/exclusive_julian_assange_of_wikileaks_philosopher">Exclusive: Julian Assange of WikiLeaks & Philosopher Slavoj Žižek In Conversation With Amy Goodman on Democracy Now</a> (highlight video), <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2011/7/5/watch_full_video_of_wikileaks_julian_assange_philosopher_slavoj_iek_with_amy_goodman">Watch: Full Video of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange & Philosopher Slavoj Žižek With Amy Goodman</a> (full, un-edited video)</li>
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<p>I think distributed systems are good for computer networks and political
systems. The only issue I find is how to mediate trust and security between
components and keeping them from becoming chaotic.</p>
<p>You know, I wish my political science courses covered the weaknesses of
government systems. I think it would prove to be an extremely helpful way to
look at how government works.</p>
google hardcoding resultshttp://enetdown.org//outgoing/posts/2011/06/24/google_hardcoding_results/zaki2012-11-10T02:34:00Z2011-06-24T06:29:46Z
<p>This is a rather interesting <a href="http://www.benedelman.org/hardcoding/">article</a>
in light of news that Google may undergo an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/technology/24ftc.html">antitrust
investigation</a> by the
F.T.C. It is from November of last year, but it may become more relevant soon.</p>
<p>Personally, whenever I use Google, I completely skip over the "special"
results. <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/">DuckDuckGo's</a> zero-click results suit me
much better.</p>