April 19, 2018

Astonishingly, There are Things Happening in the World Besides Term Papers and Exams

This is one of the most interesting...



The bit about the Black Financial University site getting demonetized is interesting and downright scary. It looks like algorithims and outrage mobs are threatening to turn the internet into something as bland and even more risk averse than the 3 networks were pre-cable. 

As a child growing up in the era after the first attempts by network standards and practices departments to appease the outrage mobs, I can attest to the sort of place that leads to.


 

Oh. Dear.

Yeah kids, the future's gonna be THAT bad if GoogleFacebookAmazon runs it. 

A quick perusal of Maven's activism page leaves me somewhat less sanguine than Mr. McCollum, but still very hopeful. We eagerly await further developments there and elsewhere.

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