John Harris Stevenson PhD

"This is a maintained guide with the aim of providing an introduction to various online tracking techniques, online ID verification techniques, and detailed guidance to creating and maintaining (truly) anonymous online identities."

How to survive being online Wee little union sign I painted in 2022, maybe? This week’s question comes to us anonymously: How do we survive being online? Erika and I bought a radio. For...

"For a narcissistic sociopath, attention is oxygen. And there’s no difference between good attention and bad... The only way to defeat a narcissistic sociopath is to starve them."

Russian journalist Andrei Babitsky: "When you live in Russia or in any unfree country, you have to have red lines. You have to be ready to leave." He fled Russia in 2022.

The US government wants to start protecting you from Robux scams This agency has plans to extend a law to apply to platforms like Roblox

Remember how Roblox is a casino preying on children? And remember how Zuck and Musk and Trump want to destroy the CFPB? Well, the CFPB is trying to protect your kids from being pulled into the Robux casino: www.polygon.com/gaming/50686...

Closing Civic Space in the United States: Connecting the Dots, Changing the Trajectory Over the past two decades, dozens of governments have used regulations, laws, and vilifying narratives to restrict the ability of civil society organizations to act and speak. Now, a similar set of ta...

Impossible not to be very concerned about attacks on civil society and community media organizations in 2025.

Behind the Curtain: Reality is now up for grabs Whole realities — the supposed culprits for the LA inferno, a new MAGA map of the world, a child-abuse scandal in Britain — now sweep the internet overnight.

Reality is now up for grabs. We're in a dangerous era of misinformation and violence.