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- The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy…
- Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
- If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if…
- When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable…
- If you want a free email service that doesn't use your words to target ads to you, you'll have to figure out how to port…
- Most Americans don't think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website…
- My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so…
- The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information…
- The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families. They're trying to pay for health care and send…
- The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's…
- We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk…
- When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites…
- Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how…
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