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Pre-October 1st
- Media Censorship
- Google closes informative applications
- Amazon shuts down informative websites/domains.
- Twitter removes account
- Banned Informative Posters
- Printers are taken over
- Banned online advertisements



October 1st
- Network Censorship
- Online Surveillance
- Cyber-attacks, Frozen Protocols
- Police forces take away bullet boxes
- Anonymity from voters is compromised
- Hacking tools for Democracy
- Tor, Signal, Linux, Bitcoin, Mobile Phones bought abroad, etc.
- Automated transparent IP code?
- The Universal Census
- Interviews/docs computer scientists, journals
- Julian Assange on Twitter:'The Internet war has begun'



Post-October 1st: Information junkies
- We live in a World of Big Data.
- Mobile/Backpack journalism
- Anybody can be a reporter, instantaneously distributing news on their online communities
- Mass misinformation, inaccurate and unverified content.
- Clickbait: Users are hooked by a continuous data input.
- Information is updated quickly, and many times.
- Information anxiety: How do big amounts of data affect users?
- How does this behavior pattern is reflected on the public opinion?
- Satiric news: they can be spread over the social medias, creating confusion and therefore misinforming.
- Satiric magazine "el Jueves" is taken to Justice, accused by Police authorities for a satiric new



Due to October 1st: Article 155
- Process for juridic normalization
- Media Institutions can be taken over by central government
- Aiming to make news media neutral?
- Control and Centralization



No ethical concerns on social medias:
- Users personal data is traded and sold by social medias.
- Docnow: Community developed around supporting the ethical collection, use, and preservation of social media content.
- Docnow developed advanced programming tools for social research, such as diffengine and twarc, amongst others.
- #ArxivemelMoment (l'Associació d'Arxivers-Gestors documentals de Catalunya) - collects real facts from the 1st of October.
- #NoTincPor: arxivar l’avui per superar el dol - Archiving for the terror attacks in Barcelona



From neutrality to control?:
- How is private data manipulated?
- Are there any concerns on privacy?
- From Twitter 1.0 to 2.0
- From RSS to API: from neutrality to control?
- API involves a signed agreement.
- Why websites don't seem to use RSS feeds anymore?
- What is the benefit of using APIs if news update can't be followed?
- Will RSS technology be back even stronger than before?
- Before, the Internet could link to things without permission.


What do I intend to do:


Use tools for decentralization
- Explain which tools I am experimenting with in my project and what can be achieved from it:
- Tools: RSS feed, diffengine, scrapy, beautifulsoup, ttrss, shell scripting, python, Linux OS, document classification systems, MongoDB, Tor, Raspberry Pi.
- What can be achieved: scraping specific info, crossing paywalls (newspaper with required subscription), stream information change from websites using RSS technology (or not), archiving, updating data, etc.
-Examine the relevance of cyber geography and how to get round its limitations
- Consider deep web media platforms and platform-specific tools



Expose this data using document classification systems
- Reserach Wikileaks structure?
- What is Eventregistry?
- Classify documents in a database, MongoDB
- Invite requests, guests collaborations, feedback, peaces of code, docs, etc.
- Hidden geolocation (anti online surveillance)
- Create a local web server in the Raspberry Pi
- Reinforce & support tools used by hackers during the 1st of October.