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““They created a world dominated by tech elites, with a set of rules that we are now condemned to live by. Peter Thiel declared that “competition is for losers,” and the following decade would prove just who the losers would be.””

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“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…

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“If Facebook becomes my primary source of news, with the ability to filter what I see, then the civic square will no longer exist.…

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“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…

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“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…

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“The first question that needs to be asked is why we are so willing to surrender our labor and our personal data for free…

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“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,…

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“Those seeking political and economic change should consider embracing art. Part of our role as citizens is to look more closely at the media…

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“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…

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“Dear Alexis, Last week at our debate, I talked about the essential unfairness that my friend and colleague Levon Helm had to continue to…

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“the fact that his businesses were built on copyright theft (Napster) and deep consumer surveillance (Facebook) leads us to question what exactly these attention…

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“So assuming one could argue that Google is a monopoly and needs to enter into a consent decree, would the Bell Labs model work?…

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“Between the passage of the ITFA and 2015, Amazon essentially managed to wipe out the local bookstore and, to some extent, the local record…

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