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theatlantic: “ Netflix, ‘House of Cards,’ and the Golden Age of Television “ “The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us.” […] Netflix’s original-programming move is competition for cable. Our attention is finite, as is time. The more...
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Netflix, ‘House of Cards,’ and the Golden Age of Television

“The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us.”

[…] Netflix’s original-programming move is competition for cable. Our attention is finite, as is time. The more time we spend with Netflix, the less time we spend on cable, the less valuable cable is, blah blah blah, this argument is familiar to all of you. But for now, don’t consider the Netflix Effect — and, in particular, its foray into exclusive shows — a turning point in cord-cutting wars. Consider it instead simply a great moment for great television. The market for super-deluxe-high-quality TV programming is getting deeper.*

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Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and other journalists are being punished for covering the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Local authorities recently issued an arrest warrant for Goodman and arrested at least two independent reporters —...

Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and other journalists are being punished for covering the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Local authorities recently issued an arrest warrant for Goodman and arrested at least two independent reporters — and this crackdown on press freedom will continue if we don’t speak up now.

Urge the authorities to drop all of these charges TODAY.

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How Facebook plans to take over the world

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“Disrupting Facebook would be like trying to disrupt telephone calls, it’s so ubiquitous,” says Paul Adams, former Facebook staffer.

If live video is Facebook’s phase four, then artificial intelligence and virtual reality look like being big parts of phase five. Both of these fit its strategy of monetizing as many of our social interactions as possible.

Source: theguardian.com
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accessnow: “ Lawyers Speak Out About Massive Hack of Prisoners’ Phone Records: “The mass recording of inmate calls is itself a fairly recent practice, sold by private telecommunications companies, like Securus, to jails and prisons as a security...
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Lawyers Speak Out About Massive Hack of Prisoners’ Phone Records:

The mass recording of inmate calls is itself a fairly recent practice, sold by private telecommunications companies, like Securus, to jails and prisons as a security measure — a way to thwart violent uprisings, for example, or curb the introduction of contraband into a facility. This bulk surveillance — the recording and long-term storage of millions and millions of routine communications — raises serious concerns about the privacy rights of incarcerated persons and their loved ones, says David Fathi, director of the ACLU’s National Prison Project.

Source: theintercept.com
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accessnow: “ Verizon just launched FreeBee, its plan for ‘sponsored data’: “It’s a growing trend in the wireless space as companies look for ever more ways to hook data-hungry mobile users. But the practice has drawn scrutiny from net neutrality...
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Verizon just launched FreeBee, its plan for ‘sponsored data’:

It’s a growing trend in the wireless space as companies look for ever more ways to hook data-hungry mobile users. But the practice has drawn scrutiny from net neutrality advocates who argue that sponsored data or “zero rating” lets rich, powerful companies pay to win, tilting the playing field against entrepreneurs and start-ups who can’t afford to pay the new fees.

Source: Washington Post
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