“Between the passage of the ITFA and 2015, Amazon essentially managed to wipe out the local bookstore and, to some extent, the local record store from the American landscape. During those years, 2,300 independent bookstores (as well as the Borders… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“The cultural critic Leon Wieseltier angrily noted, “The streets of American cities are haunted by the ghosts of bookstores and record stores, which have been destroyed by the greatest thugs in the history of the culture industry.” The bitter irony… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“The privacy issue was reignited in early 2014, when the Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook had conducted a massive social-science experiment on nearly… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“If Facebook becomes my primary source of news, with the ability to filter what I see, then the civic square will no longer exist.… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“The stunning thing about a zero-marginal-cost digital distribution system is that we forget that it could allow artists to run a nonprofit distribution cooperative… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“Huxley’s assertion was that technology would lead to passivity. The ease with which we could consume mind-numbing entertainments and distractions would ultimately rot our… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“The first question that needs to be asked is why we are so willing to surrender our labor and our personal data for free… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“The effect of Amazon’s monopsony in the book business is to constantly force authors and publishers to work for less money. In Bork’s view,… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“Those seeking political and economic change should consider embracing art. Part of our role as citizens is to look more closely at the media… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what techno-determinists want us to believe, inequality is not the inevitable by-product of technology and globalization or even the lopsided distribution of… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“Dear Alexis, Last week at our debate, I talked about the essential unfairness that my friend and colleague Levon Helm had to continue to… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“the fact that his businesses were built on copyright theft (Napster) and deep consumer surveillance (Facebook) leads us to question what exactly these attention… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“So assuming one could argue that Google is a monopoly and needs to enter into a consent decree, would the Bell Labs model work?… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“Between the passage of the ITFA and 2015, Amazon essentially managed to wipe out the local bookstore and, to some extent, the local record… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“In this zero-marginal-cost economy, the only way to make money is to scrape consumer data from your users and sell it to advertisers. In… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“If PBS shrank the number of stations and used the money from spectrum sales and government grants for programming, we would have a genuine… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“Software is eating the world,” and soon the technologists will be coming for your job, too, just as they will continue to come for… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
