Big Amp Media

09/11/2022

The monopoly power of centralized telecoms gives them control over privacy, freedom of speech, and users' personal information. Competitive decentralized alternatives can break the grip of large telecoms.

A little-known group of interoperable social networks has been growing in private for years, but now that the engineer behind Twitter’s pilot, Evan Henshaw-Plath has joined the fray, the parallel universe is verging on mainstream.

04/20/2022

Gen Z: Young people like you are winning unions at Starbucks and Amazon. The time to join the labor movement and transform the world is now.

04/20/2022

When your doctor does not work for your hospital, what are you supposed to do?

04/08/2022

"Out of Prison, TikTok influencers are reshaping how we think about life behind bars", by Keri Blakinger for The Marshall Project ().


https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/04/07/out-of-prison-tiktok-influencers-are-reshaping-how-we-think-about-life-behind-bars?utm_source=optout

02/14/2022

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09/13/2021

Will you add your name right now and pledge to march with us on October 2 to defend reproductive rights?

08/03/2021

Big tech wants you to own nothing and pay each time you want access to anything, while they lobby government to protect their monopoly power.

Read (and share) Maria Bustillos's excellent article for The Nation Magazine.

Corporate publishing wants to turn all readers into renters. We’re trying to stop them.

07/13/2021

Announcing the OptOut Media Foundation's board of directors! Plus, a new outlet joins our network and your weekly indy news roundup.

01/07/2021

AMLO has set an example by offering asylum to Julian Assange well-before Assange's legal troubles have concluded. Hopefully, this is a first step toward Mexico protecting the lives of its own journalists.

Read Guillermo Veronesi's analysis for Jacobin.

Julian Assange’s extradition to the US has been blocked thanks to a technicality, but he still faces the injustice of years in prison in the UK. While world leaders remain quiet, AMLO stands alone in speaking up for freedom of speech — and has offered Assange asylum in Mexico.

12/26/2020

Some perspectives are more magical than others. Be creative.

The Progressive Coders Network community hopes that everyone has been enjoying the holiday season. We wish you a warm and restful weekend. ☮️

(our thanks to xkcd for the use of its seasonally-appropriate graphics)