Socio-Political Angles on the Covid19 Crisis
non-comprehensive link list compiled by Howard Besser
- How
We Can Build a Hardier World After the Coronavirus, Bill
McKibben, New Yorker, April 16, 2022
- The
Foundations of American Society Are Failing Us, Bernie
Sanders, NY Times Op-Ed, April 20, 2020
- For
Autocrats, and Others, Coronavirus Is a Chance to Grab Even
More Power, NY Times, March 30, 2020
- We Must Stop
COVID-19 Without Violating Human Rights, Fight for the
Future, March 29, 2020
- New
York Attorney General Looks Into Zoom’s Privacy Practices,
NY Times, March 30, 2020
- Cory Doctorow, Don't
Look for the Helpers. March 16, 2020
- Naomi Klein, Coronavirus
Capitalism and How to Beat It, The Intercept, March 16,
2020 (video)
- Dan Kois, America
Is a Sham: Policy changes in reaction to the coronavirus
reveal how absurd so many of our rules are to begin with,
Slate, March 14, 2020
- PM Press, All
We Have Is Each Other (blog series)
- Trump
Has Emergency Powers We Aren’t Allowed to Know About, NY
Times, April 10, 2020
- x
- Cities
Close Streets to Cars, Opening Space for Social Distancing,
NY Times, April 11, 2020
- The
Magic of Empty Streets: Social distancing gives us a rare
chance to fix cities, NY Times, April 8, 2020
-
Love
& Rage in Times of Corona, Extinction Rebellion, April
8, 2020
- As
humans move into animals’ territory, contagions like
coronavirus risk being transmitted, San Francisco
Chronicle, April 7, 2020
- Today Google stops
funding climate change deniers, April 1, 2020, Culture-jam
by NY Extinction Rebellion
- Why is there such a shortage of ventilators and protective
gear? Today's society favors efficiency over maintaining slack
in a system "just in case" an emergency arises. See Howard
Besser's Elements
of Modern Consciousness.
- Read Jack London's The
Scarlet Plague
(Wikipedia
summary)
Mutual
Aid--A concept first widely promoted and historically
situated by anarcho-communist Peter
Kropotkin in a 1902
book
Zoom and Privacy
- Why
Zoom is Terrible, Kate Murphy, NY Times, May 4, 2020
- Zoom’s
Security Woes Were No Secret to Business Partners Like Dropbox,
NY Times, April 20, 2020
- Hackers
Are Selling a Critical Zoom Zero-Day Exploit for $500,000,
Motherboard, April 15, 2020
- Zoom
Rushes to Improve Privacy for Consumers Flooding Its Service,
NY Times, April 8, 2020
- Privacy
Cannot Be a Casualty of the Coronavirus, NY Times
Editorial, April 7, 2020
- School
districts, including New York City’s, start banning Zoom
because of online security issues, Washington Post, April
4, 2020
- A
Feature on Zoom Secretly Displayed Data From People’s LinkedIn
Profiles, NY Times, April 2, 2020
- ‘Zoombombing’
Becomes a Dangerous Organized Effort, NY Times, April 3,
2020
- Zoom
Meetings Aren’t End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading
Marketing, The Intercept, March 31, 2020
- New
York Attorney General Looks Into Zoom’s Privacy Practices,
NY Times, March 30, 2020
- Zoom
iOS App Sends Data to Facebook Even if You Don’t Have a
Facebook Account, Motherboard, March 26, 2020
- What
You Should Know About Online Tools During the COVID-19 Crisis,
Electronic Frontier Foundation, March 19, 2020
Increased Surveillance in wake of Covid19
- As
Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets,
New York Times, March 23, 2020
- Face
Surveillance Is Not the Solution to the COVID-19 Crisis,
Electronic Frontier Foundation, March 19, 2020
- What
You Should Know About Online Tools During the COVID-19 Crisis,
Electronic Frontier Foundation, March 19, 2020