If Bernie Sanders became president and was then tough on the growing power of the Internet industry, would the progressives currently singing his praises still support him? With this post, I am neither endorsing nor indicting the candidacy of Senator Sanders himself, but as his campaign is built on a theme of holding Wall Street and corporations accountable, I have ...
If a man overhears two women at the local coffee house advocating some point of view he doesn’t like and he then announces out loud that he hopes someone rapes and kills them, the management will toss him out on the street. In such a scenario, patrons will applaud the ejection, and nobody in his right mind will suggest that ...
Last month, I shared some thoughts on the subject of piracy as a tool for promotion, and I won’t repeat all that here. Suffice to say, I’ve never understood why this particular argument has ever be taken seriously—other than the obvious reason that it offers a plausible sounding rationalization. But, even without thinking too deeply about the matter, just the ...
I haven’t done a podcast in a while but decided to reach out to technology writer Andrew Orlowski after reading his article Alphabetti Spaghetti: What Wall Street isn’t telling you about Google. Andrew is the executive editor of the IT news and opinion publication The Register, a critic of techno-utopianism, and coiner of the term “Googlewashing” to describe either purposeful or inadvertent ...
So, this week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation launched its new infographic (stress on graphic) still pitching the idea that it is the IP provisions in the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement that are of the gravest concern. The EFF states on their site that the infographics are covered by a Creative Commons license* and that anyone is free to use or remix the assets with ...
