Category Archives: The Market

Domestic Surveillance: FBI and Three Others Like This

I assumed this was already happening, but I guess they are trying to get public approval doe non-stop monitoring. The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance. via FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sitesContinue reading “Domestic Surveillance: FBI and Three Others Like This”

Fadebook? Hilarious.

I would have never seen this coming. I’d previously believed Facebook would not be a good long-term hold, but I had no idea the IPO could come unraveled to such a degree. It’s quite a confidence-shaker, don’t you think? Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has gone from hero to zero as the stockmarket flotation of theContinue reading “Fadebook? Hilarious.”

The War on Information

In America, we’ve seen the poor attacked following the War on Poverty; we’ve seen children jailed in the War on Drugs; and the War on Terror has ripped from us of our rights as American citizens. Now it looks like we may be headed for a War on Information. America may one day use piracy as aContinue reading “The War on Information”

AMC Theatres to MPAA: “Fuck off”

Suck it, Valenti. “This isn’t just about business. This is about overthrowing dead culture.” – Steve Jobs, from The Pirates of Silicon Valley As the concept of intellectual property fades into obscurity, the people of planet earth have reached a major milestone. I don’t think this has ever happened since the creation of that McCarthyisticContinue reading “AMC Theatres to MPAA: “Fuck off””