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Verizon Launches Tech News Site That Bans Stories On US Spying
blottsie writes: The most-valuable, second-richest telecommunications company in the world is bankrolling a technology news site called SugarString.com. The publication, which is now hiring its first full-time editors and reporters, is meant to rival major tech websites like Wired and the Verge while bringing in a potentially giant mainstream audience to beat those competitors at their own game.
There's just one catch: In exchange for the major corporate backing, tech reporters at SugarString are expressly forbidden from writing about American spying or net neutrality around the world, two of the biggest issues in tech and politics today.
There's just one catch: In exchange for the major corporate backing, tech reporters at SugarString are expressly forbidden from writing about American spying or net neutrality around the world, two of the biggest issues in tech and politics today.
That is like making a crime website but not reporting on murders and robberies.
Are you kidding, who do you think is giving them backing, if not the U.S. Government? Do you think it's private corporate funding that forbids them from discussing U.S. spying? This venture is about as "private" as Radio Free Europe.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
I found NSA intrusion long before it became headline news.
Noticing probing on the firewall I did traceroute look ups through multiple paths to define a pattern of problem servers.
When a common server was discovered I fired up the Robtex Swiss Army Knife Internet Tool.
Cross referencing the trees and information and records of servers I saw a former employer server was the problem "leaky insecure"
Interestingly it was being hosted on NSA servers. In other words the internet is hosted by dot mil and nsa servers.
A side note is just writing this post induced a buffer pointer over run, coincidence? : )
If you want to know who is in charge, Find the person you're not allowed to talk about. Being a recipient of the controversial retroactive immunity for spying, as well as a contentious and vociferous opponent of net neutrality, Its fairly clear who cracks the whip. So if the arguably two largest concerns facing the internet and tech community are off-limits for SugarString, how is it they intend to beat the competition 'at their own game' if the competition offers in depth, comprehensive coverage and analysis?
Good people go to bed earlier.
I can't believe no one is talking about how to hack the site to allow those sort of news articles.
I miss the bad old days.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure