Free Post Newsletter Assets: Does the Rise of Bitcoin Mean the Decline of America? The new world order in question has been coming for a long time. It is driven by an inevitability - the decline of great nations. There has never been an empire that did not decline. The reason? Capitalism.
Free Post Newsletter Garbage in, Garbage Out There is not a problem to solve. Section 230 already provides the right balance. It allows me to publish on your platform without you becoming liable. It allows you to take down what I post if you have a solid enough reason. It does not expect you to scrutinise everything published. It works.
Free Post Newsletter Who is in Charge? Tech Elites or the Digital "Mob"? The slippery slope to top-down authoritarianism
Free Post Newsletter Disruption This week’s That Was The Week has an obvious theme — disruption. The news of Gamestop’s crazy stock — growing by hundreds of per cent due to a Reddit group r\WallStreetBets — is evidence enough. But the out of control stock is only one story.
Free Post Newsletter Wanted: An Internet Bill of Rights “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Free Post Newsletter On Liberty Commercial interests owning platforms used by the majority of society as a modern printing press are no more suited to deciding what is allowed to be published than the first printing press owners were suited to deciding what newspapers were allowed to print.
Free Post Newsletter Facebook: Not a Monopoly The Federal Trade Commission and 48 State Attorney Generals filed a suit against Facebook on Wednesday this week. It alleges that Facebook, through its acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp, exhibited antitrust behaviour.
Free Post Newsletter Who Dies? Slack or Teams? Stewart Butterfield, the Slack founder and Bret Taylor, Chief Product Officer at Salesforce, represent a formidable team. Together with Salesforce's market weight and sales energy they are likely to play a major role in helping to evolve the operating system that enterprises run on.
Free Post Newsletter Capitalism Deformed? Capitalism cannot innovate without investing. So Venture does not deform capitalism. It enables it.
Free Post Newsletter Should Facebook Ban Bannon? "To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them."
Free Post Newsletter After Trump The end of Intel should be as smooth as the end of Trump. Both the Whitehouse and Apple will be fine.
Free Post Newsletter Playing With Fire This week I highlight contributions from a wide range of points of view. Some call for the modification of Section 230. Others want it to remain untouched. Some want it ended altogether.
Free Post Newsletter Tech to Titans: Please Don't Kill the Internet Are the Tech Titans Caving in to the Republican Party?
Free Post Newsletter All Change in Silicon Valley I’m drawn to Bill Gurley again this week. He has been relentless in calling out the Investment Banks for “stealing” money from founders and employees’ pockets. He does not mince words.
Free Post Newsletter Elections, Rejections & the FCC What is the alternative to this open approach? It can only be that some people designate themselves as more capable of truth than others and impose that truth on everybody. Such a 'benevolent', big brother, brave new world, approach goes against any sense of freedom and democracy.
