Facebook and Google vs the Free Press
The effort to contain Google and Facebook were only in the skirmish stage until Australia and Maryland upped the ante with their tax powers.
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How the NATO Alliance Is Fighting Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine With Subsidies From State Budgets and the Gates Foundation, Hidden by bhe Financial Times
The Financial Times runs dodgy numbers to claim that Russia is vaccine price gouging to poor countries, when that’s Big Pharma’s gig.
Read more...Department of Pre-Crime: Left-Wing Protester Arrested by FBI for Being on a “Path to Radicalization”
In the real world, the one we’re in now, the Department of Pre-Crime will not be this much fun. Nor will the good guys win.
Read more...Deathbed Confession: FBI and NYPD Responsible for Malcolm X Assassination
US police forces at a minimum set up the conditions that allowed for Malcolm X to be killed. How far does their culpability extend?
Read more...Google’s Dominance of Online Ads is a Big Deal. Here’s How to Fix It.
Legal scholar Dina Srinivasan talks to INET’s Lynn Parramore about reining in Google and restoring fairness to a regulatory Wild West.
Read more...Thomas Frank: YouTube Censorship and Now What’s Happening in Kansas –
Thomas Frank and Paul Jay discuss censorship by tech monopolies and changes in the political landscape of Kansas.
Read more...Facebook Bans News in Australia to Avoid Paying Charges
Facebook shuts off news and important information in Australia to bullly the government into dropping a bill requiring it to share revenue.
Read more...Is There Really a Problem with Left Wing Extremism in the UK, or Is the Government Seeking Excuses to Suppress Fair Protest?
Governments on both sides of the pond are in “never let a crisis go to waste” mode. Aggression by the right is cause to stomp on a weak left.
Read more...Warning: If Your Business Depends on a Platform, You Don’t Have a Business
A warnign to small fry Internet content producers: time to think of getting your own platform as a matter of self-preservation.
Read more...The Third-World Flavor of America’s Love Affair with the Military
The dangers of undue deference to men in military uniforms.
Read more...TikTok Got A US Reprieve, But Elsewhere, It’s War
Tik-Tok is getting its wings clippped. But how far will containment efforts go?
Read more...Should President Biden Revoke Section 230?
“What to do about tech platforms” has fixated on Section 230, when more should be done.
Read more...The Insurrection at the Capitol Challenged How US Media Frames Unrest and Shapes Public Opinion
An illustration of how media framing manipulates viewer reactions.
Read more...MAGA Cosplayers Seize Capitol While Cops Flounder
How could a rabble occupy the Capitol despite months of fulminations about a Trump coup and a rally date announced well in advance?
Read more...Critics Warn Repeal of Section 230 ‘Would Be Devastating for Human Rights, Social Movements, and Marginalized People’
No, Section 230 is not about Facebook. It protects you from liabilty if you forward an e-mail, so you should think twice about a repeal.
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