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Why Is Nobody Talking About the Chaos in Nepal?

At least 22 people have been killed – many of whom were still wearing college and school uniforms – in Nepal. As reported on Tuesday, the government implemented a blanket ban on 26 social media platforms, leading to youth-led free speech pr

Online Safety Act: UK government’s global censorship has turned up a notch

This week, the UK government has openly moved from using the Online Safety Act for age verification to using it for censorship. On Monday, the Government announced urgent action to strengthen the Online Safety Act by amending it to classify

Major Red Sea undersea cables have been cut

Two major undersea cable systems in the Red Sea were reportedly severed, causing widespread internet disruptions across parts of Asia and the Middle East, including India, Pakistan, the UAE and Kuwait. The cause of the damage remains unknow

19 Killed as Nepal Free Speech Protests Turn Deadly

The streets of Kathmandu ran with blood yesterday after police opened fire on crowds protesting a nationwide shutdown of almost all social media platforms in Nepal. At least 19 have been confirmed dead with hundreds more injured – many of w

Nepalese government blocks access to nearly every major social media platform

Nepal has blocked access to major social media and messaging platforms as they failed to register and comply with the “Directive on Regulating the Use of Social Media, 2080.” The Government has introduced strict rules requiring digital plat

AI Is The Final Human Invention: Will It Bring Peril or Prosperity?

Economist William Nordhaus once calculated that our ancestors spent approximately 58 hours of labour to generate the same amount of light that’s now produced by a modern lightbulb in an instant. By the 1700s, oil lamps cut that figure to fi

12 New AI Billionaires

AI is creating new billionaires at a record pace. The AI boom is becoming the largest wealth creation spree in recent history, according to CNBC. Last month, CNBC said that “AI is creating personal wealth on a scale that makes the past two

UK scientists are engineering bird flu viruses with enhanced traits inside government-funded labs

The UK government is manufacturing brand-new bird flu pathogens with enhanced traits in the very same way US agencies admit covid-19 most likely began – inside a lab, Jon Fleetwood writes. Writing about a study published on 1 September, Fle

Three essays: The centralised control of your body, soul and spirit

The government you elected isn’t in charge and we are on the road to algorithmic authoritarianism. They don’t plan to stop there. The plan is to transform our spirituality, too. The above are the subject matters of three important essays

Meta-Constitution System: A system of world governance through standards, best practices and technical guidance

There is a system already in operation which exercises constitutional-level authority but bypasses democratic processes. There are no checks and balances or democratic accountability over this system, yet it determines who may participate

Ed Dowd: The imminent global “deep recession” will be used to usher in CBDCs

Edward Dowd, a former Wall Street money manager and founding Partner of Phinance Technologies, predicts a severe financial crisis in the United States, potentially worse than the 2008 crash, with the most critical phase expected to unfold i

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60 open source organisations sign up to support the needs of the United Nations

On 8 August, the United Nations announced that 60 organisations have signed up to the ‘United Nations Open Source Principles’. The principles include supporting the development of solutions that meet the evolving needs of the UN system. Th

If you have de-Googled your phone, the EU’s age verification rules will exclude you from using all apps for all services

In late June, the European Union launched a pilot project to test a prototype age verification app in five member states: Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, and Spain. The excuse? Protect children online. The app is built on the technical sp

UK’s Online Safety Act has kick-started a global frenzy of online censorship and surveillance

At the end of July, the UK government enforced its “online safety” regime. The pretext is to keep children safe online. As a collection of articles from 1 August reveals, it has kick-started a censorship and surveillance frenzy with gover