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When the state department tells you to write a story you write the story, or face the real prospect of the end of access which will be the end your journalism career. Not an ideal …

I doubt his kind of "dangerous" thinking will be allowed to be spread for much longer in our corporate dystopian internet. It's just a matter of time before speech daring to critic…

Terms like "market" and "gold rush" are probably too generous, more like "pyramid schemes unraveling".

I'm pretty proud of how I got rejected from Google, how I laid into several of their products as bad and slow and missing important features. Now that they've incorporated most of …

With everything that has happened in the past few years, I'd be kind of scared of the people who choose to remain. They must either be true kool-aid drinking zealots or... somethin…

Anti-trust. Anti-monopoly. We needed to revive these movements five years ago.

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There's a lot of informal sharing of info about employees between the tech giants in the area. I don't think they are sharing the lists but people call eachother. The speed with wh…

The weird song and dance of luring developers by offering so much personal data to them for free in the early days of Facebook's API always creeped me out. I remember thinking abou…

Well you know, that whole enabling genocide thing is arguably as bad as poisoning people. Should we just not criticize corporations until the death count gets to a certain threshol…

It's a link to a commentary podcast, not sure which "actual story" you're referencing but there have been several negative stories about Facebook which they talk through and that's…

"Tech will always need to act in a quasi-governmental manner, making judgments on political speech and operating teams in parallel to the U.S. intelligence community," No, absolute…

This page is hilarious, and reminds me of the early days of both open source and cloud services when everyone thought you needed some complicated sounding new phrase & acronym to b…

This is like something a stoned frat boy would come up with as their first attempt at a mission statement.