Weekly Axis Of Easy #143 Last Week’s Quote was “To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.” Was Ella Wilcox, winner was Christian Smith . This Week’s Quote: “There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be […]
easyDNS Coronavirus / COVID-19 Statement
In response to inquiries from clients regarding our posture to weather the global coronavirus pandemic, this should help put your minds at ease, at least with respect to relying on continuity of your easyDNS Services: DNS, domain registration, web and email hosting, proactive nameservers, et al as well as your ability to connect with our […]
Welcome Arcticnames Clients (including LowCostDomains, EgateDomains et al)
We are easyDNS, and we have entered into an agreement to acquire the naming business from LowCostDomains, your domain registrar. Over the next week to few weeks your domains will be imported into the easyDNS control panel platform giving you complete control over managing all aspects of your domain name. That means you’ll be able […]
Twitter’s community verification system will be a disaster
Bias and b/s would be baked-into the proposed scheme Recently NBC news came into a leaked demo, which was confirmed by Twitter, of a system to allow verified users to correct and flag misinformation, directly below the tweet. Any tweets flagged as misinformation will have their visibility reduced across the system.
It begins: Facebook cancels our ads boosting House of Commons Petition
For the second time in less than a month, Facebook has canceled a boosted post from easyDNS. The first occasion was on Feb 3rd when we posed the question on whether social media platforms should be the final arbiters of truth (response from Facebook: “yes”). Note the boost was originally approved and then canceled mid-run. […]
Canada’s BTLR is a Blueprint for Regulating Internet Content
(Feb 9, 2020 This post has had correction appended) In June 2018 the Canadian federal government initiated a review of the Telecommunications and Broadcasting Acts with the intent of getting guidance on how best to integrate the realities of the internet and global communications into the existing legislation. The project overview page with associated timeline […]
