Stephen E. Arnold: Openness is Search — Does Money Displace Ethics & Efficacy?

A Call for Openness in Search “Opening Up Search Is an Ethical Imperative” presents an argument for opening up search. “Opening up” appears to mean that Google’s grip on ad supported search and retrieval is broken. The write up states: LONG POST EVERY WORD WORTH READING Advertisers go where the eyeballs are. Money can alter …

Betty Boop: Online “Behavior” Scores — The New Fascism?

Your online activity is now effectively a social ‘credit score’ Especially when the Morality Police get acquired. …people who have “authored online content with negative language” will be marked down. Phi Beta Iota: The President is not protecting the 1st, 2nd, or 4th Amendments of the US Constitution. What is being done by BigTech / …

James Fetzer: Why Sandy Hook “Pozner v. Fetzer” Lawsuit Matters: What’s Really at Stake

Why the Sandy Hook “Pozner v. Fetzer” Lawsuit Matters: What’s Really at Stake The case before the Court represents a gross abuse of process, because its underling motivation has nothing to do with defamation but with the First Amendment, our freedom of speech and freedom of the press, in the absence of which the United …