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Skip to comments. Google’s Monopoly on Speech Townhall.com ^ | May 11, 2020 | Katie Kieffer Posted on 05/11/2020 4:31:40 AM PDT by Kaslin Don’t be evil” was explicit to Google’s motto and code of conduct for some 15 years. In 2015, Google updated its motto to “Do the right…

Apr 28, 2020 at 16:35 UTCUpdated Apr 28, 2020 at 18:16 UTCBlockstack co-founder Muneeb Ali speaks at Consensus 2017. (Credit: CoinDesk archives)Blockstack Pledges to Enforce Patents for ‘Defensive Purposes’ OnlyBlockstack, the firm building a decentralized backbone for Web 3.0, is open sourcing its patents – kinda.CEO Muneeb Ali told CoinDesk…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. During the second week of March, as the stock market and many U.S. businesses slumped, Peter Spenuzza’s company, Rise Bar, enjoyed an unexpected boost. Amazon, where the protein…

LONDON, April 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- While the current market is trouncing traditional investment themes, sustainable investing--already a $30-trillion mega trend--is calling all the shots in a world where big money has realized one critical truth: This is a game of survival, and the key is mitigating risk. Mentioned in today's…

While COVID-19 is trouncing traditional investment themes, sustainable investing--already a $30-trillion mega trend--is calling all the shots in a world where big money has realized one critical truth: This is a game of survival, and the key is mitigating risk. It’s no longer about dogma, ideology, or even politics. Big money…

The coronavirus pandemic is one of the biggest and unprecedented seismic shifts in the global economy that we’ve ever seen in modern history, and it’s just getting started.     Already, economies around the world are shutting down. The federal reserve has pumped trillions into the United States economy in just…

The coronavirus pandemic is one of the biggest and unprecedented seismic shifts in the global economy that we’ve ever seen in modern history, and it’s just getting started.               Already, economies around the world are shutting down. The federal reserve has pumped trillions into the United States economy in just a…

A German app developer has warned that the Covid-19 pandemic gives Silicon Valley tech giants perfect cover to suck up personal data. However, while the government may intervene, the tech firms aren’t known for listening. Apple and Google unveiled an app last week that uses bluetooth connections to trace the…

Not content to merely harvest your private information, your driving whereabouts, music listening tastes and spending habits, as well as recognizing your face, conducting psychological experiments without your knowledge as well as listening in on your private conversations, now Big Data wants to track your every move, for the good of your health.…

The global internet continues to disintegrate into regional internets.Yesterday, the FCC authorized a Google subsidiary, GU Holdings, to open a submarine fiber optic link between the U.S. and Taiwan, while continuing to block the company’s expansion of the cable to Hong Kong.The cable, operated by Pacific Light Data Communication, has…