Amazon, Ashton Kutcher And America’s Surveillance Of The Sex Trade
“The cops can go to the media and say, ‘We were able to successfully rescue this woman from sex trafficking,’ when, no, you just spied on a chick,”
Napster With Niko Stratis
This week, a tale of two Shawns/Seans, their impossible dream, and the file sharing service that lived fast, died young, and helped create the internet as we know it. Plus,…
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Strategic Knowledge
While companies feign ignorance about marginalized users on their sites, these savvy users flip the script, developing strategic knowledge about the platforms they frequent. Strategic knowledge is an imaginative praxis…
DuckDuckGo’s Quest to Prove Online Privacy Is Possible
Whether that mission succeeds could have consequences far beyond DuckDuckGo’s bottom line. DuckDuckGo is operating to some extent in the shadow of Apple, which has already made privacy a core…
How Detroit residents are building their own internet
Detroit has historically been one of the least connected cities in America, with about 40 percent of Detroit residents lacking any home internet access at all. Things are changing, though,…
Harassment Isn’t a Social-Media Problem—It’s a Strategy
The internet is not an unflawed arbiter of justice, and it should be okay to admit that without invalidating what it has afforded in terms of a platform for the…
Call out culture
where it comes from and who weaponized it
This is Cuba’s Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify – all without the internet
In Cuba there is barely any internet. Anything but the state-run TV channels is prohibited. Publications are limited to the state-approved newspapers and magazines. This is the law. But, in…
Why net neutrality’s peril raises the stakes for future satellite broadband options
The Federal Communication Commission’s plan to start rolling back regulations on net neutrality comes as bad news for streaming video providers like Amazon and Netflix, and potentially for consumers as…