Controlling the Words: Big Tech’s AI Assault on the Newsroom Heralds the Illusion of News
Orwell warned us. Big Tech is corrupting journalism and wants to grind it into disjointed words that bring the illusion of news.
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News from the Goolag: Thank you Alex @Winter and @GunnerGale Anne Hurd for taking on Google in the @YouTubeEffect Coming July 7
Save the date: July 7 “The YouTube Effect” documentary written and directed by Alex Winter and produced by Gale Anne Hurd.
An Insult to the Heart: Lobbyists Organize Big Tech Rallies in Europe
Big Tech’s lobbyists organize rallies for surveillance capitalists in the ancient capitals of Europe “pulling the wires which control the public mind.”
Why is there a Google Books? Part 1: Machine Translations and Customer X
The Author’s Guild has appealed the ridiculous Google Books decision imposed on the world’s authors courtesy of Google’s Silicon Valley hotshot lawyer Daralyn Durie (who is currently representing GoldieBlox against the Beastie Boys, and who appears to be evolving a subspecialty of attacking artists–even if it means unseating the Orrick firm in the rush to […]
Canadian, German and New Zealand Authors Oppose Google Book Settlement: The Smartest Guys in the Room Can’t Handle the Truth–AGAIN
In the latest round of Google’s “make me” litigation strategy, the biggest bully in the schoolyard is confronted by yet another group of angry authors opposed to Google’s wholesale landgrab of the works of civilization. The objection to the Google Books Settlement filed on 1/28 by Canadian authors (although not yet in the docket as […]
Google Fouls Up Again: Google Book Search is a Disaster for Scholars AND Copyright Owners
Google’s Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars. Now that title caught my eye, not the least because it appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The article is extraordinarily honest and well written, with solid research and supporting evidence. We’ve become accustomed to librarians and academics uncritically fawning over the disaster that is Google Books […]
Marian the Librarian Gets Jilted or Google’s Bad Advice Redux
Andrew Keen calles it “the great seduction“, but the greatest seduction was how Google seduced Marian the Librarian into giving away copies of the works of authorship that the libraries of the world had been entrusted to hold for eternity. (See US Register of Copyright Marybeth Peters, “State Soveriegn Immunity and the Protection of Copyright” […]
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