Archive - internet stuff

An amazing year for Bitcoin but not for the reason you think

The dang thing worked

Dec 3, 2020 •

Neeraj K. Agrawal

October 2020

Caving to government censorship as a competitive advantage

If your rival is banned you get all the users

Oct 26, 2020 •

Neeraj K. Agrawal

"social order" laws sure are convenient for authoritarians

Cambodia is among the several countries using the pandemic to crack down on free speech and dissent. Human Rights Watch has been documenting cases of…

Oct 2, 2020 •

Neeraj K. Agrawal

September 2020

FinCEN has a lot of valuable records. Some of them are leaking.

In Hong Kong, a media tycoon and democracy activist, Jimmy Lai, is arrested. His company is publicly traded. So people who support his advocacy start…

Sep 16, 2020 •

Neeraj K. Agrawal

August 2020

fb isn't going to take a loss on your free speech

Facebook blocked a group with over 1 million members in Thailand because it is critical of the Thai monarchy. In Thailand it’s illegal to criticize the…

Aug 27, 2020 •

Neeraj K. Agrawal

freezing young womens' bank accounts for dancing is bad

and other tales of internet censorship

Aug 20, 2020 •

Neeraj K. Agrawal

July 2020

some links for you

Chargebacks, Anti-Terror abuse in the Philippines, Myanmar journalists driven underground, etc

Jul 10, 2020 •

Neeraj K. Agrawal

June 2020

some links for you: state censorship, coinbase, hyperinflation, etc

Apple has pulled a podcast app from the app store in China. They did this because it allowed users to access content deemed illegal in the country…

Jun 11, 2020 •

Neeraj K. Agrawal

May 2020

some links for you

i read it all so you dont have to - 5/22/2020

May 22, 2020 •

Neeraj K. Agrawal

PayPal doesn't like OnlyFans

somewhere between the internet, censorship, and finance

May 14, 2020 •

Neeraj K. Agrawal

some links for you

i read it all so you don't have to - 5/7/2020

May 7, 2020 •

Neeraj K. Agrawal

some links for you

i read it all so you dont have to - 5/1/20

May 1, 2020 •

Neeraj K. Agrawal

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