“There is a very real tension here — criminals either have encryption like the rest of us, or no one does — and it's on us to make the argument that we collectively have much more to lose than criminals have to gain”Tagged: Encryption, Backdoor, Golden Key, Senate Intelligence Committee Encryption Bill 2016, Apple
“Let me be absolutely crystal clear: this bill, absent massive changes (which, given the previous statements of its authors — Democrat Diane Feinstein of California and Republican Richard Burr of North Carolina — is highly unlikely) is an unmitigated disaster. The only way for any company to abide by…”Tagged: Apple, Encryption, Backdoor, Golden Key, FBI
“More broadly, the righteousness with which Thiel acted, and with which many on Twitter reacted, combined with a seeming lack of obliviousness to how this might look to the outside world, very much reconfirmed fears I have voiced repeatedly that the tech industry is headed for a regulatory disaster…”Tagged: The Present Of Media, Peter Thiel, Facebook, Gawker, Thiel vs Gawker
“Remember, everything is a system. And, given the changes wrought by the post 1970s wave of globalization, it is foolish to think that a core component of society — labor — can be fundamentally changed without there being knock-on effects on the other components of that system.”Tagged: Brexit, Corporate Colonialism, Tech Morality
“It is in Facebook's interest to make sure media organizations have the means to produce the content that makes Facebook the front door to the Internet; that Facebook would make this change knowing it will hurt media organizations (the company wrote in a second blog post that "We anticipate that this…”Tagged: Facebook, Facebook Referral Traffic, The Present Of Media, Facebook Prioritizes Friends June 2016
“[F]or many years, not just the post-World War II era but also the colonial era, governments saw one of their chief roles as being the creation and protection of markets for large companies (which in turn employed large amounts of the governments' citizens). My question at a very fundamental level is…”Tagged: Brexit, Corporate Colonialism, Tech Morality, New World Order
“The fact of the matter is that Facebook is a whole lot closer to a common carrier or infrastructure than any information-providing service we have seen before.”Tagged: The Present Of Media, Facebook, Election 2016, Fake News, Digital Monopolies
“The risk for the technology industry is that we are now the incumbents: we have a stake in keeping things exactly as they are, and we build products for ourselves — we’re our own best customers. That, though, cedes the future to the powerless — those with nothing to lose under the current system…”Tagged: State Of Technology 2016, Disruption, Silicon Valley, Future Capitalism
“More importantly, though, is that calling the United States a democracy is incomplete; we are a (small 'l') liberal democracy: that is not only do we elect our representatives, but we also are governed by the rule of law and the guarantee of individual rights and personal liberty. That our…”Tagged: Trump, Democracy, Election 2016, Liberty, Liberalism
“And yet, right there in the first two paragraphs, are two Trump statements that should be deeply unsettling for those interested in defending the (small 'l') liberalism I discussed yesterday: "I'm here to help you folks do well" and "We're going to be there for you". First off, these sorts of…”Tagged: Trump, Trump and Tech, Election 2016
“If you raise the floor of competence, you inevitably lower the ceiling of achievement.”Tagged: Creating Successful Social Frameworks, Environment Building, Institutional Conditioning
“Spotify is an impressive product and company, and CEO Daniel Ek and team deserve credit for reaching this point. Being a true aggregator, though, means gaining power over supply; Spotify doesn’t have that — the company doesn’t even have control over its marginal costs — and it’s hard to see where…”Tagged: Spotify, Saas Model, Media Cliff Notes, Media Aggregator
“Advertising can augment a publisher, but it’s hard to believe it can support one, even one expressly built for the Internet. That is now the realm of Aggregators.”Tagged: Media Cliff Notes, Buzzfeed, Business Model