The agonizing death of Hillary Clinton’s ‘Internet Freedom’ agenda
The openness of the American internet is what makes it so dangerous
Monday
Wednesday
Airbnb’s boycott and Facebook’s child bride: the moral vacuum of the internet
Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be adequately explained by greed
Friday
The trouble with baby boomers and social media
If Cesar Sayoc did send those bombs, might it have something to do with the online conspiracy wormhole he’s been dwelling in for the last few years?
Saturday
The rule of Caesar Mark Zuckerberg
The Facebook CEO is enthralled by the power ancient tyrants wielded
Tuesday
Social media should be held to the same bar as a newsstand, not a publisher
Doing otherwise would be a great disservice to American audiences.
Thursday
Amazon and Facebook: the twin evils of our age
Why is government absent when it comes to a predatory company out to destroy all opposition and pay the minimum tax in the process?
Saturday
Big data wants your vote
From the outside it all looked haphazard and frenzied. A campaign that was skidding from scandal to crisis on its way to total defeat. That’s not how it felt inside the ‘Project Alamo’ offices in San Antonio, Texas where Trump’s digital division — led by Brad Parscale, who’d worked previously with Trump’s estate division setting … Read more
Thursday
Will Mark Zuckerberg now admit that Facebook is anti-social?
Zuck speaks! He’s finally responded to the Cambridge Analytica debacle. To be honest, I could have predicted almost word-for-word this evening’s statement: It wasn’t really our fault; it was mostly their fault; we’re a little bit responsible (‘front-up’ I can imagine a comms person insisting); and here are the steps we’ve taken. In fact, we’d already taken most of these steps in 2014, … Read more
Monday
Facebook’s privacy failings are no accident
Remember Nudge? It was a 2008 book by Chicago economist Richard Thaler and Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein, full of bright technocratic ideas for using ‘choice architecture’ to ‘nudge’ the plebs to make the ‘right’ decisions. The Guardian’s reviewer called it ‘never intimidating, always amusing, and elucidating: a jolly economic romp with serious lessons within’. On … Read more
