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David Lazarus: Shadowy data brokers make the most of their invisibility cloak (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 11/06/2019 - 12:36How the Google walkout transformed tech workers into activists (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 11/06/2019 - 12:35Editorial: Facebook hands its microphone to lying politicians, Twitter takes it away (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 10/31/2019 - 06:3850 years ago, I helped invent the internet. How did it go so wrong?
When I was a young scientist working on the fledgling creation that came to be known as the internet, the ethos that defined the culture we were building was characterized by words such as ethical, open, trusted, free, shared. None of us knew where our research would lead, but these words and principles were our beacon. We did not anticipate that the dark side of the internet would emerge with such ferocity. Or that we would feel an urgent need to fix it. How did we get from there to here?