Tag: telecommunications
Russia experiments with Internet isolation. What’s going on?
Since 2019, cities across Russia have been testing ways to disconnect the Russian segment of the Internet (known colloquially as “Runet”) from the wider global network. Most tests go unnoticed by users, and are only announced post-factum. We explain how Russia is preparing for its own “sovereign Internet” and how the new system differs from the “Great Firewall” of China. …
Exposing factory farms, the digital divide, & liberal fantasies as ‘fact checking’
Lee Camp interviews Matt Johnson, an animal rights activist with the group Direct Action Everywhere. He’s currently facing felony charges for exposing the brutality of the factory farming industry. An Iowa pork producer was using brutal methods to massacre surplus pigs whose meat they couldn’t harvest because of slowdowns in the Covid economy. …
