Earlier this year, in one of the most absurd court rulings in modern times, federal judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google violated U.S. antitrust law by gaining a monopoly in the search engine markets. In the days or weeks ahead, the courts will decide whether to break up one of America's most iconic companies or to sell off some of its activities and products. The latest reports are that the courts may require Google to sell off its popular Chrome browser. (To whom? China?) It may also require Google to surrender other products to help erase its market lead. With a market cap of roughly $2 ...
I’m back from two weeks in semi-self-imposed Twitter gulag after having refused the tech monopoly’s Darkness at Noon-style demand that I personally delete two of my tweets for being ...
These days, it’s getting harder to tell the calculating and corrupt from the gullible and stupid. A few weeks ago, the journalistic community anally expelled a collective brick when reports ...
Finally, congressional action on internet speech suppression. But let’s not pop the champagne just yet... Some background: In 1996, Congress passed the Communications Decency ...
The Internet’s Free Encyclopedia Hates Me. The first thing I noticed about my Wikipedia page, when someone directed my attention to it, was that they got my name wrong, ...