Uberocracy: How the Sharing Economy Changes Politics

“Uber’s request that drivers keep working in areas where the service is illegal is a sign that they know people want the service. The fact that people keep using the service while it is illegal shows that entrepreneurship outpaces politics. While they are technically engaged in civil disobedience, users likely neither care nor know the legal status of the services.  Airbnb hosts rent out their apartments against the terms of their leases. They probably violate some hospitality regulations in their cities. They don’t really care. The experience is so positive that both hosts and users win.  What makes this entrepreneurship new is that the barrier to entry is so low for somebody to engage in the exchange.”

https://medium.com/life-learning/uberocracy-how-the-new-entrepreneurship-changes-politics-99bc515e31b0

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Google rejects French order on global ‘right to be forgotten’

“Google is rejecting an order by the French data privacy agency to remove search results worldwide upon request, saying European law allowing the ‘right to be forgotten’ doesn’t apply globally.  In a statement posted late Thursday, Google said bowing to CNIL’s request would force it also to agree to similar requests worldwide from any government that doesn’t agree with how the company posts content. ‘The Internet would only be as free as the world’s least free place,’ the company wrote on its Europe policy blog.  Europe’s highest court ruled in May 2014 that people have the right to control what appears when their name is searched online.”

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/google-rejects-french-order-world-forgotten-082428875–finance.html

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Windows 10: keylogging, harvesting browser history, purchases, and covert listening

“By default, Microsoft gets to see your location, keystrokes and browser history — and listen to your microphone, and some of that stuff is shared with ‘trusted [by Microsoft, not by you] partners.’  You can turn this all off, of course, by digging through screen after screen of ‘privacy’ dashboards, navigating the welter of tickboxes that serve the same purposes as all those clean, ration-seeming lines on the craps table: to complexify the proposition so you can’t figure out if the odds are in your favor.  Oh, and if you’ve already chosen to use Firefox as your default browser, Microsoft overrides your decision when you ‘upgrade’ and switches you to the latest incarnation of Internet Explorer.”

http://boingboing.net/2015/08/03/windows-10-defaults-to-keylogg.html

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The Man Who Almost Stopped Julius Caesar

“Cato was just five years of age when Rome went to war with its former allies in the Italian peninsula — the so-called ‘Social War.’ Though the conflict lasted just two years, its deleterious effects were huge. The decades to follow would be marked by the rise of factions and conflict and local armies loyal to their commanders instead of the larger society. A ‘welfare-warfare’ state was putting down deep roots as Cato grew up. The limited government, personal responsibility and extensive civil society so critical to the republic’s previous success were in an agonizing, century-long process of collapse. Even many of those who recognized the decay around them nonetheless drank the Kool-Aid.”

http://fee.org/freeman/detail/the-man-who-almost-stopped-julius-caesar

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Realism versus Nonintervention

“In both British and U.S. experience we can see much institutional feedback from overseas empire: transfer of policing models and bureaucratic management techniques, and their cumulative effects on domestic civil liberties. Meanwhile, for domestic reasons, Americans long since encumbered themselves with standing armies of police, which are rapidly adopting military and imperial mentalities and practices directly from U.S. overseas adventures.  Realists and neo-Realists would have us believe that it is actually impossible for a great power to renounce empire. There are indeed few precedents. Most imperial powers learn the hard way.”

http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/realism-versus-nonintervention/

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