Posts by pwsbuilder
Australia: plotting against internet privacy
Australia has lost the plot over internet privacy issues, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is leading the charge to demonstrate wilful ignorance of basic internet principles. Even worse, Australian leaders including the ASIO chief and the Police Commissioner, are now also piling on in an attempt to force platforms to allow increased government surveillance and…
Read MoreElon Musk’s Twitter: Call To Action
Elon Musk’s Twitter is what the world needs right now. As an entrepreneur, Elon Musk has bought Twitter and will make decisions about where it is going on the job on the assumption that the founding principles that he has articulated, will see him through. And his founding statements on the face of it, are…
Read MorePolitical Changes To Combat Climate Change That May Surprise You
At least five developments are needed to establish new politics of climate change action that engages mass global opinion. They involve reverse social engineering of the extremely effective global misinformation and power systems that have taken the earth’s population to the edge of reason. These systems are supporting the climate change disaster that is quickly…
Read MoreTime For A Universal Declaration of Digital Rights
We urgently need a United Nations Universal Declaration of Digital Rights. With existing digital rights under threat, it would realise the intention of the great document, the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, to fulfil the fundamental right expressed in its Article 1, that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity…
Read MoreSafetyNet: What We Need For Democracy 2.0
A better public space with new rules and an online gathering of global citizens who can vote is desperately needed as we engage in what may be a final fight against climate change and war. That is what I call SafetyNet. The development of a new global media and public space that is fit for…
Read More10 Principles of Global Citizens
Before we get to the 10 principles, let’s get some context: who is a Global Citizen? The answer to this question is both very personal, but also powerful. It has the potential to reengineer our future of global devastation through climate change, because a mass global movement for energy transformation and sustainability is unprecedented. Fossil…
Read MoreBlockchain: Potential to Redefine Climate Change Activism
At a time when we know climate change action needs to be a transformational force across the world, we have so far seen only incremental change. Code Red means that global citizens must look around to use every means possible to drive carbon emissions down to limit catastrophic global warming over the next decade. In…
Read MoreCOP26 and Plan B for Climate Change AI
Given the usual state of global politics, the COP26 conference seems likely to make only incremental climate change movement when we need a radical shift to roll out climate change AI. We need to urgently develop Plan B. Global pressure on the participants of the Glasgow conference to commit to deeper cuts in global emissions…
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