McKinley Park News – User Technology Recommendations

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The purpose of the McKinley Park News is to serve readers like you with relevant, timely, credible and accurate information. Your trust in our news is our greatest asset, and we accordingly operate with a chain of trust that binds all operations, not just our newsroom.

Our Internet platform is a primary pillar of our operations that is also bound by this chain of trust. As an online publication, we require an electronic device with web access: common tools and channels unfortunately exploited by the corrupt to secretively track you for profit, steal and sell your personal data, and expose you to online harms.

As ensconced in our Terms of Service, we do not share, sell, or license any of our user and member information and submitted content. We operate technology that only serves resources from our own website and server, excising harmful third-party services that put you and other news readers at risk. Our membership system also supports leading privacy standards, such as those mandated by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.

Although the McKinley Park News operates responsibly on behalf of its readers, many unfortunately do not. However, readers like you can still protect yourself — and enjoy a much better online experience — by making smart choices for all your online activities. This list provides our technology recommendations that our users may wish to consider adopting for themselves, all of which perform well with the McKinley Park News.

Accessibility

The McKinley Park News is designed to be persistently accessible to as many users as possible, across as many platforms as possible, using best-in-class, contemporary, legacy-tolerant standards for building and serving websites and Internet services. Our publication optimizes itself for both mobile devices and desktops, maintaining full functionality and access to content across all contemporary devices. This means we should still be accessible, even on technology we do not recommend.

The McKinley Park News prides itself on strong ongoing support for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which ensure that users of all abilities can access our news content and engage with us.

Open Source Preferred

In all instances, we require a preference for open source, on-site software to produce and publish the McKinley Park News and to manage our platform and business operations. These freely available tools provide better value, stability, security and ownership costs than commercial and proprietary options, all the while delivering equivalent or better performance and features.

Most significantly, open source tools can be trusted more than software from commercial and proprietary sources. Commercial software vendors, including many of the largest, have repeatedly put short-term profits ahead of security, stability and privacy for their users. Their black-box products cannot be audited, offer primary targets for hackers exploiting monocultures and present the risk of abandonment or devolution at the whim of the business that owns the code.

Open source is also the environmentally responsible choice, enabling ongoing operation of older hardware that commercial vendors often abandon or even outright degrade and disable in order to force purchases of new devices. Open source keeps electronics out of landfills.

Although our decision to use open source is based on sound business practices and operational strategy, we also recommend a preference of open source for our users, for many of the same reasons.