The Markup found industry fingerprints on at least five bills around the country—weak laws, experts say, that are designed to preempt stronger protections By: Todd Feathers...
ProPublica drops a second monumental article based on treasure trove of IRS, SEC & court data Excellent reporting of tax injustices among the obscenely rich continues...
The evolution of content continues at warp speed due to pure individual creativity By now, the open algorithm, where a new account can blow-up in the...
Is the title above wrong? Depends who you ask… In her new book, Klobuchar tries to connect the historical roots of antitrust actions to populism and...
Platform wars are heating up and influencers may be prime beneficiaries… Something strange is happening in social media: influencers are getting paid, sometimes directly by platforms....
Possible WW3 over Digital Ads with Zuck & Google Vs MSFT & Apple Sometimes, in order to tackle a complicated subject it is necessary, first, to...
If four years of the Former Guy taught us anything, it’s that we have no time left for evil, soulless greed run amok – Opinion &...
On a crazy night Zuckerberg, KimDotCom and Guy Kawasaki all join rooms at the same time Clubhouse, the red hot “social audio” app which is growing,...
Apple gets serious about exploitative surveillance business models, and it’s about time Six months ago when we first published “Cracks in The Wall: Apple, Google, Amazon...
After close review of recent tweets This is a breaking news story Suffice it to say for the moment: He deserved it and it’s about time....
The day after it would have helped, better late than never After more than four years of tyrannical abuse of social media and the eCommerce hawking...
The battle is getting very public and will get louder and nastier The full page newspaper ads taken out by Facebook, where they proclaim themselves the...
The opinions expressed “pro” or “con” regarding big tech abuses of power are both overlooking far more serious issues that lie beneath After years of public...
In a filing at the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C., on December 9th, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission, together with 46 states, plus the District...
As antitrust suits loom, a digital tax appears as additional government option Related to French “digital tax” hopes, and which may have future repercussions for other...
An Unlikely Holy Grail: User Sophistication and the Will to Exist Online In late 2018 a small firm was looking into opportunities in organizing an online...
Search Battle Lynxotic Predicted is about to Breakout Big time In a year that has already offered AppleOne, 5G, and perpetual AirTag teases, Apple Inc might have yet another major project hidden...
New Reports call for laws to rein in giant monopolies Amid a zany week of political theater and election drama, the federal government has actually managed to...
Reprogramming civilization via Social Media…. “The Social Dilemma” a documentary now available to watch on Netflix, exposes some hard truths and dangers of social networking. Former...
Yes that includes Netflix -and-chill text invites We all constantly interact with our iPhone in a myriad of ways. We use our phones for directions, searching...
Apple will expose the worst of predatory surveillance by Facebook, Amazon and Google with new privacy features While wrong is wrong regardless of the perpetrator, when...
Virtually every day a targeted feature or software change is announced in an attempt to damage the monopoly next door Competition is the cornerstone of capitalism....