For a long time, including in Bulgaria, there has been a lot of talk about the effect of social networks on our society. This modern Gutenberg revolution is fundamentally changing every aspect of our existence, opening up new horizons and creating new problems. Cases such as the sudden and coordinated deletion of Infowars (a media outlet with millions of users) from almost …
More »The pointless and questionable spending of BNT
This article is part of the "Black Book of Government Waste", published in 2015. With over 65 million leva in annual subsidies from the state budget, the Bulgarian National Television is the largest budget-financed media in the country. The television is an institution with a special status, performing certain public functions. The current director of BNT, Vyara Ankova …
More »"The Handmaid's Tale" - a series about the dangers of retrograde totalitarianism
The Handmaid's Tale is a series adapted from the novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood. The story takes place in the United States in the present day, where a totalitarian regime serving "traditional" values has seized power and seized human freedoms, replacing them with the dystopian state of Gilead. Religious totalitarianism in a frightening dystopia The revolution of Christian …
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