by editor | Mar 27, 2019 | Top Page Links
International Slam Poet Rob Montz gives us a heaping dose of reality in his new video, Is Instagram Destroying Teenage Girls? The short answer: Yes. The math: A platform prizing physical appearance above all + the promise of micro-celebrity + notifications +...
by editor | Mar 27, 2019 | Top Page Links
The Express marks the passing of the EU Copyright Directive with a deep concern for memes. Article 11 requires search engines to pay news sites for links, while Article 13 will compel online-content platforms to filter posts that haven’t secured...
by editor | Mar 26, 2019 | Top Page Links
By Daniel McGroarty GeoPolicy, Defense Editor Don’t make those travel plans just yet: The much-awaited Trump-Xi trade “summit” seems to be sailing deeper into calendar 2019, with word over the past 24 hours (Reuters) that the meet “won’t happen in March,” may “push...
by editor | Mar 26, 2019 | Top Page Links
Henny Sender in the FT: SoftBank and its $70 billion-in Vision Fund are privately hyperfinancing start-ups, they argue, to spur rapid growth and occasionally to beat their chests. These well-intended torrents of cash have created a bubble in the tech sector,...
by editor | Mar 25, 2019 | Top Page Links
In her column at The Times, Angela Mills Wade maintains that proposed new EU copyright laws will bolster independent journalism — not break the Internet as its detractors contend. The detractors, according to Mills Wade, are well-funded tech companies whose...
by editor | Mar 25, 2019 | Top Page Links
Writing in The Guardian, Carlos Fernandes, a World Economic Forum young global leader, argues that the proposed EU copyright law, intended to break tech juggernauts’ grip on European media, will have precisely the opposite effect. By penalizing organizations...
