Post Tagged with: "Internet"

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  [Article] What Socionomics Says about the Timing of the Next World War

  If EWI’s outlook is correct, then, World War III is unlikely to commence until after…
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] Authoritarianism Is No Laughing Matter, Well, Most of the Time

  Is the National Security Agency leveraging bogus cyberattack threats to further its agenda?
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] A Big Chunk of the Web Goes Black: Is SOPA Dead?

  Internet-based opposition has turned the bill into a front-page conflict. The Obama administration announced its opposition to the legislation, and how it did so is especially noteworthy.
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] How “Digital Piracy” Created a Consensus that STILL Reflects Negative Mood

  An apparent exception to gridlock has been much in the news lately. It has a bipartisan list of sponsors in Congress and near-unanimous support from America’s entertainment/industrial complex…
   
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  [Article] Privacy Legislation is Curtailing Internet Use

  China already blocks Facebook, Twitter and YouTube — yet they’re taking further steps to ensure “a greater degree of comfort that everything is under control.” Discover what that means, in the context of new manifestations of Internet censorship in the U.S. and U.K.
   
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  [Article] The Destructors

  In Chapter 14 of The Wave Principle of Human Social Behavior, Robert Prechter noted the tendency for positive social mood to impel the desire to build and for negative mood to impel the desire to destroy.
   
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  [Article] The State-Sponsored Stuxnet Attack in Iran: No Surprise

  If you have not read the story of Stuxnet, take time to educate yourself on the basics of what has been called “the ‘best’ malware ever” and “a working and fearsome prototype of a cyber-weapon that will lead to the creation of a new arms race in the world.”
   
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  [Article] Electronic Freedom: Checking the Internet’s Vital Signs

  In a period of negative mood, many governments will pull the plug on large swaths of the Internet. In the U.S., the landscape is rapidly changing to make such action possible.