Civilized Societies Don’t Call It Censorship, but Copyright
Why the European Copyright Directive would have a disastrous impact on the Internet, and what can be done to stop it.
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Rethinking AI Through the Politics of 1968
All the initiatives that want to make AI ethical seem to think it’s about adding something i.e. ethics, instead of about revealing the value-laden-ness at every level of computation, right down to the mathematics.
Read more...Is the Tide Turning on Regulating Facebook and Google?
The time is overdue to Do Something about Facebook and Google.
Read more...New Study: Median Uber Driver Earnings $9.73/Hour After Conservative Assumption for Costs
More on the dismal economics of being an Uber driver.
Read more...DOJ Sues to Overturn California Net Neutrality Law
Trump’s DoJ yesterday filed a lawsuit to overturn California’s net neutrality law, signed by Governor Jerry Brown earlier during the day.
Read more...SEC Sues Elon Musk for Fraud, Seek to Bar Him Permanently from Executive, Board Role in a Public Company
Elon Musk put himself in the SEC’s crosshairs.
Read more...Widely-Reported Study on Uber, Lyft Driver Economics Misses Fundamental Deterioration
Once again, some Uber and Lyft data that ought to generate more questions instead gets a free pass from the press.
Read more...Why Is CalPERS Aggressively Promoting Internet Voting Despite Experts Like the National Institute of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Saying “Hell No”?
More proof that CalPERS has no shame.
Read more...As Musk Goes Nuts Publicly, Tesla Bondholders Get Antsy
Rising bond yields pose a problem to Tesla’s survival.
Read more...The Mills of Providence Were Ground Up Slowly
Life along Woonsquatucket, and what “a screw loose” really means.
Read more...Matt Taibbi on Facebook and Google Playing the Censor
Matt Taibbi weighs in on how tech giants are endangering your civil liberties.
Read more...TSB: Why Are So Few Customers Leaving a Bank that Trampled on Them?
Despite months of IT mayhem and all kinds of problems, customers cling to TSB Bank in the UK.
Read more...A Private Investigator on Living in a Surveillance Culture
An insider’s take on surveillance.
Read more...Market Power, Low Productivity, and Lagging Wages: The Real Drivers
To understand labor productivity—and growing inequality—you have to look at the “dual economy”
Read more...The Digital Freedom Pass: Emancipation from Digital Slavery
A libertarian case against Silicon Valley’s digital slavemasters.
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