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The free-market spirit permeated the sweeping Telecommunications Act of 1996. Promoted with great enthusiasm by President Bill Clinton and his technophilic vice president, Al Gore, the legislation stripped away most of the market strictures that had defined the structure of the media industry since the Communications Act of 1934. It erased the
... See moreLike most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade.
Ernest Cline • Ready Player One
Today, if Varoufakis is to be believed, we are up against powerful feudal lords of big tech companies and corporations who have decoupled power from capital; they control not only the factories and farms, but the means to transfer money, and they mediate your access to the rest of humanity. They can de-platform you. They can de-bank you.... See more
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We’ve digitized 2.5 million books. Google has as well, but they’re locked up. They locked up the public domain, which we think of as a sin. The library sort of made elite services around it just for themselves.
Recode Staff • Full transcript: Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on Recode Decode
Kirby Ferguson
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I’m a filmmaker, writer, speaker, educator, and consultant. Best known for the video series Everything is a Remix. As seen on The New York Times and Bloomberg.