I first met "Agora — a platform for public deliberation using Polis-style clustering" a year or so ago. Now they're moving to ATprotocol and "proposing the Decentralized Deliberation Standard (DDS) as an open protocol for deliberation, built on AT Protocol". This post goes through their history, which started by investigating how to "use zero-know…

Apparently we are all now "little more than webs of flesh spun over packages of saleable data", according to a searing indictment of Google's anti-anonymity policy specifically. This is required reading for anyone interested in a balanced view of anonymity, privacy and public discourse: "The Google+ so-called "real name" policy can best be descr…