@andreworlowski: Nothing says freedom like getting away with it: Google quietly takes gag off Mississippi AG after wrecking ads probe

Americans are freedom loving people, and nothing says freedom like getting away with it. From Long Long Time, by Guy Forsyth Andrew Orlowski reports in The Register: Google has, without fanfare, dropped its legal action that muzzled an investigation into the ad giant’s conduct by the State of Mississippi. The state’s elected attorney general, Democrat […]

Corporate Astroturf and Manipulation of Media Messages by @SharylAttkisson at TEDxUniversityofNevada

Uncle Sugar Shows Us a Regular Guy on a Lobbying Trip As we enter the a new session of Congress, we can anticipate being assaulted by the combined forces of Google, Facebook, Pandora and SiriusXM, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, the Digital Media Association, the Computer & Communications Industry Association and its host of […]

For State Attorneys General, the Human Trafficking Investigations Should Start at YouTube

January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness Month.  Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is one of the 47 state Attorneys General who is leading the AG’s initiative against human trafficking of young girls, especially online: General Bondi emphasizes the need to make parents aware of the dangers that young people face online that parents […]