Scott Galloway Says Amazon, Apple, Facebook, And Google should be broken up
Report of the San Francisco Conference-‘The Future of Money and Technology’, by Marc Strauch
“Ethical Markets recommends this insightful commentary by Marc Baraka Strauch, MA, MUP, expert on early stage sustainable investing and member of our Advisory Board ([email protected]). We asked Marc to represent Ethical Markets at this conference on “The Future of Money and Technology” in San Francisco, December 2017. This report portrays …
Net neutrality is about to become a campaign issue
Though 2018 is here, don’t expect the net neutrality debate to disappear. Though the FCC’s repeal last month was devastating, it’s had the pleasant side effect of turning the issue mainstream—so mainstream that it’s sure to become a talking point in the midterm elections, argues writer Klint Finley. Senator Edward …
Twitter is cracking down on hateful content
Insights Beyond the Headlines Twitter is cracking down on hateful content Subscribe Today ? Twitter announced it will begin to enforce new rules relating to hateful and violent content on its platform. In addition to threatening violence or physical harm, it will also look for accounts affiliated with groups that …
This Month in the Public Good News :Public Ownership of the Internet!
“There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest… and this public passion must be superior to all private passions.” – John Adams, 1776 In 2017, cities and states have become central architects of a progressive, democratic and sustainable future. Defensive against the encroachment of monopolies, …
Help AlterNet Fight the Google-Facebook Duopoly
Jeff Chester, a foremost, longtime expert on consumer protection and digital privacy as Director of the Center for Digital Democracy, makes crystal clear the impact that Google is having on AlterNet and progressive media: “AlterNet is on the frontlines battling new forms of online censorship promoted by Google. To please …
Net neutrality REPEALED
“Ethical Markets opposes this unwarranted repeal of net neutrality. We believe, as in the law in the European Union and other countries that the internet is a public utility, which should remain under the FCC’s Title 2 rules as a common carrier. Republican appointed FCC chair Ajit Pai, who was …
The FCC just killed net neutrality. Now what?
We here at WIRED believe deeply that information should flow freely and fairly across the Internet. We also don’t like censorship, and we don’t like bots disrupting democracy. So, in the past weeks, we’ve written extensively about the debate at the FCC over net neutrality. Today, we write with both …
Council on Foreign Relations
“Ethical Markets recommends the video of the Council on Foreign Relations conference on dealing with social media and misuse of bots, hackers and fake news. The best discussion on this recently! ~Hazel Henderson, Editor“ This is the second session of the Hacked Elections, Online Influence Operations, and the Threat to …
Epic plan to save net neutrality
We’ve got over 600 nationwide net neutrality protests planned for this Thursday. We’re now less than two weeks from the FCC’s vote to kill net neutrality, but the backlash sweeping the Internet is unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Last week, we called for protests at Verizon stores and Congressional …