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Today — 26 January 2026Main stream

Just the Browser is just the beginning: Why breaking free means building small

✇The Register
By: Rupert Goodwins
26 January 2026 at 06:28

Privacy tools are a start, but real freedom lives in the digital outskirts of the web

Opinion  The Net is born free, but everywhere is in chains. This is a parody of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1762 book The Social Contract where he said the same about humans, but it's nonetheless true. The Net is built out of open, free protocols and open, free code. Yet it and we are bound by the rulemakers who build the services and set the laws of the places we go and the things that we do, not to our advantage.…

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Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack

✇The Register
By: Rupert Goodwins
19 January 2026 at 04:30

Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. Europe of all places should know that

Opinion  Europe is famous for having the most tightly regulated non-existent tech sector in the world. This is a mildly unfair characterization, as there are plenty of tech enterprises across the continent, quite a respectable smattering if it wasn't for the US doing everything at least ten times bigger.…

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