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In Attack On Commercial Speech, Law Professor Sadly Supports Selective Rights | Forbes

June 11, 2013

The latest such complaint comes from Columbia Law Professor (and former senior adviser to the Federal Trade Commission) Tim Wu in a New Republic article, “The Right to Evade Regulation: How Corporations Hijacked the First Amendment.” What such ...

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'Quit Google, Facebook' Suggests Tech Expert As Surveillance Scandal Deepens | Wired.co.uk

June 10, 2013

In an interview with Wired.co.uk, Professor Tim Wu of Columbia Law School suggested that consumers had a responsibility to leave social networks found out to be collaborating secretly with intelligence services such as the US National Security Agency:.

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The Long War on Patent Trolls Has Begun | The Atlantic Wire

June 4, 2013

A law already exists to fight trolls — the America Invents Act, among other consumer protections — and they sit "largely unused," according to The New Yorker's Tim Wu. The laws remain unenforced, he argues, because fearful of coming out against ...

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Europe's Digital Power Grab | The Commentator

June 4, 2013

The phrase net neutrality was coined by Tim Wu in a pre-web 2.0 era before the introduction of smart phones. Net neutrality is effectively the idea that all content should be treated equally over an Internet access network. This usually means that ...

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Twitter Suffers Brief Outage | All Things Digital

June 3, 2013
The center of gravity at the university appears to have shifted. The school now looks like a giant tech incubator with a football team. — Nicholas Thompson, in a New Yorker article entitled, “The End of ...
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Five Reasons Drones Are Here to Stay

  • By
  • Romesh Ratnesar,
  • New America Foundation
May 23, 2013 |
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How Social Commerce Tightens China's Grip On The Internet | Global Voices Online

May 22, 2013

The greatest danger comes when netizens are unaware of how power is being exercised over them, as Global Voices co-founder Rebecca Mackinnon, author of “Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom”, noted in an article for ...

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Orchestrate.Io Closes $3 Million Seed Round | All Things Digital

May 21, 2013

... in Personal Technology. View all reviews ». The center of gravity at the university appears to have shifted. The school now looks like a giant tech incubator with a football team. — Nicholas Thompson, in a New Yorker article entitled, “The End of ...

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Strongbox: New Yorker's Salvo in the 'War Between Data Capture And Privacy' | The Guardian

May 17, 2013

Nicholas Thompson, editor of newyorker.com, hopes that the new anonymous information sharing service will help redress the imbalance in what he calls the "data arms race". "Technology for surveillance and data capture by companies monitoring our ...

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What's Wrong With The Internet? | The Awl

May 14, 2013

You may be right that such generalizations sometimes obscure rather than illuminate our conversations." Tim Wu, in The Washington Post: "[...] tech thinkers do have a bad tendency to believe a little magic dust can fix any problem. [...] And I tend to ...

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