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Jamie Court: Who's Tracking You Online?
December 9, 2010Everybody's talking about WikiLeaks and the government's right to its private conversations, but what about you and I? Jamie Court makes the point that Internet companies by and large are in the business of selling information to advertisers, and 80 percent of the public wants to have a Do Not Track registry, similar to the national Do Not Call list.Prosecuting WikiLeaks, Jamie Court and Cancun Climate Talks
December 8, 2010"It's the ruling class talking amongst itself," notes Alexander Cockburn of the information that WikiLeaks exposes and governments want to suppress. Meanwhile, Julian Assange is being held without bail, and online it's 4chan versus Mastercard, Xipwire versus PayPal in the fight to keep WikiLeaks open and funded as quickly as the government and corporate entities can shut it down.Vince Warren, Hamid Dabashi, and the Crisis in Ireland
November 23, 2010The Republicans who will shortly be taking over the house after the recent elections have pledged to shrink the government and cut spending, but, Vince Warren notes, they seem to have no problem with "Big Government" when it's holding detainees indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay.The F Word: Solving the Irish Crisis
November 23, 2010The financial crisis in Ireland is leading to a political crisis on the heels of a bailout and more “austerity measures.” The coalition that currently rules is falling apart, the Green Party detaching from the prime minister's Fianna Fail party, and elections loom.Dean Baker, Noor Elashi & Medea Benjamin, and Flooding in Pakistan
August 11, 2010The favorite bogeyman of the Right, Social Security insolvency, is rearing its ugly head once again. Obama's deficit commission has been told that no solution is off the table, and Dean Baker notes it wouldn't be the first time that a Democratic administration went forward with plans that a Republican couldn't sell to the American people.The F Word: Evil Inequality In the Works for the Web
August 11, 2010Google's corporate motto, it's been noted, is “Don't Be Evil.” They're going to be sorry they ever said it. By siding with Verizon vs. those fighting for a free and equal Internet -- that may be exactly what they're doing.Can You Sue The Internet?
March 3, 2010Google has gone from being a search engine to being a world power: it has been pitted against governments and, as Clay Shirky notes, has its own foreign policy. In Italy, on February 24, three Google employees were convicted--with suspended jail sentences--of violating Italy's privacy statutes in relation to a video posted on YouTube, owned by the Web giant.Google and Italy, Wage Theft and Karl Grossman
March 2, 2010Google has gone from being a search engine to being a world power: it has been pitted against governments and, as Clay Shirky notes, has its own foreign policy. In Italy, on February 24, three Google employees were convicted--with suspended jail sentences--of violating Italy's privacy statutes in relation to a video posted on YouTube, owned by the Web giant.Google Vs. China: Human Rights or Intellectual Property?
January 27, 2010In recent weeks, the tensions between the U.S. and China have escalated in a strange place: cyberspace. Specifically, Google decided that it was no longer willing to continue censoring results on Google.cn, and may potentially shut down its operations in China.
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