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GitHub suspends multiple Youtube-DL repositories after RIAA DMCA notice and more in Axis of Easy # 169
[AxisOfEasy] Surveillance Is A Business, And Business Is Good
Weekly Axis Of Easy #151 Last Week’s Quote was “Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power” was by Milton Friedman and the winner is Janet Matthews. This Week’s Quote: “One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in […]
[AxisOfEasy] Facebook rebrands Libra as Novi to try again
Weekly Axis Of Easy #149 Last Week’s Quote was “Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one” winner was Michael Sierchio This Week’s Quote: “Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of the individual have been eroded” …by ??? THE RULES: No searching up the […]
[AxisOfEasy] Justice Department Poised To Hit Google With Antitrust Lawsuit
Weekly Axis Of Easy #146 Last Week’s Quote was “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” Was by H.L Mencken, winner was Rob Brunk This Week’s Quote: “The press is the hired agent of a […]
[Axis of Easy] #SaveDotOrg: Why ISOC Sold The .ORG TLD To A Private Equity Firm
Weekly Axis Of Easy #125 Last Week’s Quote was “The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B” by James Yorke, the winner was Shayne. This Week’s Quote: “The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM.” by….??? THE RULES: No searching up the answer, must be posted to the […]
Google’s Gmail scans, parses, analyzes and catalogs your email
Recently I came across this story by Todd Haselton that describes how the author located an obscure “purchases” page in his Google account settings and there found a methodical list of his online purchasing history, from third-party outside vendors, going back to 2o12. The upshot of the story was that: Google saves years of information […]
