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The best VPNs for staying anonymous and secure on the web

Mashable Tech

Aside from the few countries that have restricted or outright banned them (including Belarus, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Oman, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and the United Arab Emirates), VPNs are perfectly legal in most of the world. Bonus points if that policy's been verified by a third party audit.) Split tunneling.

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Israel’s political crisis has activated its apolitical tech industry — and there’s no turning back

TechCrunch

That has also made it a target of criticism among more conservative groups, as well as any others that might take a differing view of the court’s determinations. Netanyahu has claimed reforms are necessary because the judiciary — which is, technically speaking, unelected — has too much control over public policy.

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Guest Post by Heather McLeod Grant: Reflections on the Personal Democracy Forum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The audience was also more male than female (60%, according to one estimate), certainly more liberal than conservative (at one point someone asked how many Republicans were in the audience and only 10 people raised their hands, out of 1000+!), and disconcertingly white. Facebook now has 200M users, the majority of whom are outside of the US.

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Social networks solved their 2016 election problems, but their 2020 problems are bigger

The Verge

A surge of misinformation on social networks, led by President Trump and his family , has challenged social networks’ content policies and drawn fresh attention to their enforcement capabilities. We cannot say this time that Russia, Iran or China interfered in a significant way. That’s the good news.

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Why Trump’s Truth Social may not survive the hype

The Verge

Today, let’s talk about some of the less obvious ways that conservative social networks keep slipping up — and whether Truth Social, which has the backing of President Trump, can manage to avoid their fate. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. First, the news: Truth Social is live in the App Store, and hit No.

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