Communications technologies powerfully impact how and what people think, what they view as right and wrong—even what they are capable of thinking and valuing.
Tag: the internet
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In the couple years since I disengaged from mainstream politics, I’ve been accused of having become embittered or alienated. (more…)
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January 20, 2012 Matt Parrott
SOPA não é o problema
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Portuguese translation here
It’s a good thing that SOPA and PIPA have been put on hold indefinitely by yesterday’s digital tantrum. Nothing delights me more than imagining a dark cloud of popular anger sweeping over Washington’s lobbyists, forcing them to scuttle like vermin from whatever evil-doings they were up to. (more…)
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The following letter is addressed to Minister of Justice Simon Power in response to reports that the New Zealand Government is considering ratifying an international law against cyber crime, that includes clauses criminalizing so-called “holocaust denial,” “racism,” “xenophobia,” and “verified genocides.” (more…)
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March 2, 2011 Matt Parrott
Protocols of the Elders of Google
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German translation here
Please Welcome our Special Guest Contributor: Google
We, the learned Elders of Google, having resolved to be evil after all, conclude that this ”Internet” is more trouble than it’s worth. The following protocols, which are super top secret, are our step-by-step plan for unplugging the series of tubes once and for all..
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September 6, 2010 Andrew Hamilton
The Perennial Gale:
Ken Auletta’s GoogledKen Auletta
Googled: The End of the World As We Know It
New York: Penguin Press, 2009Capitalism is by nature a form or method of economic change and not only never is but never can be stationary. . . . It must be seen in its role in the perennial gale of creative destruction . . . (more…)