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Sergey Brin and other tech billionaires made fortunes in blue California, then fled to red Florida to dodge a proposed wealth tax. iPINIONS calls it what it is: greedy tax-dodging by billionaires who resent paying back the state that helped make them rich. Their flight may look like financial prudence, but it reeks of self-owning… Read more.
A grifter is as a grifter does. And so Donald J. Trump, the former, twice-impeached president of the United States, is doing this: Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday filed proposed class-action lawsuits targeting Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey, as well as YouTube and its parent company’s… Read more.
Calls to boycott Facebook are becoming pandemic among businesses worldwide. Numerous businesses are pausing their advertising campaigns on Facebook (FB) – and Instagram, which is owned by Facebook – to boycott the company’s policies around what content it moderates and how. The campaign, called ‘Stop Hate for Profit,’ and organized by the NAACP, Color for… Read more.
Twitter: the case for banning political ads Last week, Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter would ban all political ads. The media lionized him. Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, said political ads, including manipulated videos and the viral spread of misleading information, presented challenges to civic discourse, ‘all at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale.’ He… Read more.
Comcast, Verizon, and other Internet service providers got the go-ahead from the Federal Communications Commission today to sell your personal information without your permission. … Last October the agency passed a set of rules that would have required Internet providers to take steps to protect your private data from hackers, notify you if someone hacked… Read more.
MIT professor emeritus Noam Chomsky is arguably the most accomplished thinker in America, if not the world, today. Whatever one thinks of Wikipedia, it fairly describes Chomsky as an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, political commentator, social justice activist, and anarcho-syndicalist advocate. That established, Chomsky shared “his views on the current media landscape” in… Read more.
Google won international praise last week for merely announcing that it intends “to review our business operations in China” after Chinese agents hacked into the Google email accounts of human-rights activists – who are deemed to be enemies of the state. Meanwhile, far too few pundits are bothering to note that these hackers just did to… Read more.
As a practicing attorney, I am all too mindful of the ease with which the public can access private information about anyone these days. In fact, this was demonstrated with poignant irony a few years ago when a blogger trolled Goggle’s own archives to find out all kinds of private information about its CEO Eric Schmidt. Frankly,… Read more.
Only a decade ago, Microsoft was an unrivaled giant in the world of technology. And it trampled over all of its competitors with such monopolistic arrogance that the US government (and the EU) had to file anti-trust lawsuits to curb its unfair business practices. Therefore, it was as ironic as it was hypocritical when, a… Read more.
