According to the National Journal (“Senate to Investigate White House Role in Google’s Antitrust Victory“): A Senate panel plans to investigate whether the White House inappropriately derailed a federal investigation into accusations that Google was stifling online competition. Sen. Mike Lee, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary’s Antitrust Subcommittee, plans to contact the Federal Trade […]
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. H.L. Mencken You may have read one of many, many recent news articles about an internal Federal Trade Commission report about the Google antitrust investigation released by the FTC under a Freedom of Information Act request by […]
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As we posted, there are very few details about the recent direct deal between Naxos Records and Pandora. The two big points that aren’t getting discussed is the Pandora special “steering payola” that Naxos and Pandora refused to discuss with the RAIN Newsletter. The big issue that Naxos and Pandora…
Right on cue, Google’s YouTube video monopoly platform is distributing yet another terrorist propaganda video: According to The Long War Journal: The Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda’s official branch in Syria, has released another video showing its fighters using American-made TOW missiles. As The Long War Journal reported earlier this week, Al Nusrah released a video featuring […]
As we have seen in Google’s attempt to stop being investigated by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood and other members of law enforcement, Google are quick to cast themselves as the defenders of free speech under attack from law enforcement–as they serve ads on YouTube against ISIS recruitment videos as reported by CNN, NBC an […]
Remember when a UK Member of Parliament called out Google for providing material support for the terrorist group Jund al-Aqsa by distributing recruiting and aspirational videos for the group? That’s right, in the UK House of Commons, Diana Johnson, a leading Labour MP, had quite a lot to say about Google’s involvement with jihadi recruiting: We recognise, of […]
What do you pay for when you pay for a subscription to an ad supported service like Spotify or Pandora? It stops being ad supported. So who benefits from that? Fans and artists who hate advertising. Artists who get a higher royalty rate. Who doesn’t benefit? Well, who do ya think? Here’s a risk factor […]
Sorry, couldn’t resist. They tell you that if you want to have a clickable post make it about lists of things, so after reading “SXSW: The 7 Hottest Topics in Music Tech“, I thought I’d give it a try. The thing to remember about the conference part of SXSW is that there’s two conferences. One […]
OK, now that you’ve stopped laughing, that’s not a trick question. We all know why Google has never been prosecuted by the U.S. government. One way or another, they buy their way out of it through Google’s unprecedented network of lobbyists, fake academics and shadowy nonprofits like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge. (For […]
As discussed in Part 1, Ben Sisario reported in the New York Times that “Big Radio”, including Entercom Communications based in Bala Cynwyd, PA, is lobbying the FCC for a waiver of the long standing payola rules. Right about the same time that Entercom’s payola waiver filing was released by the FCC, “Big Radio” launched the Free Radio Alliance to […]
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