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Does Santa Exist? A Chat with Eric Kaplan (Transcript)

Jan 19, 2015

Jonathan Zittrain: This is Jonathan Zittrain speaking. I’m on the line, wherever that is, with one Eric Kaplan, author of “Does Santa Exist? A Philosophical Investigation,” a book that I had the pleasure of reading and that Eric had the burden of writing—and we thought we would talk about it for a little bit. So, […]

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Rethinking Online Culpability: The Amazon “Keep Calm” Shirts Controversy (Part 4: Concluding Thoughts)

May 31, 2013

In early March, the online retailer Solid Gold Bomb provoked outrage when customers discovered that its Amazon store, which featured apparel bearing dozens of variants on the famed “Keep Calm [and Carry On]” slogan, included a t-shirt that read “Keep Calm and Rape A Lot.” Solid Gold Bomb generated the shirts, and Amazon offered them […]

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Rethinking Online Culpability: The Amazon “Keep Calm” Shirts Controversy (Part 3: (Un)supervised Algorithms)

May 29, 2013

In early March, the online retailer Solid Gold Bomb provoked outrage when customers discovered that its Amazon store, which featured apparel bearing dozens of variants on the famed “Keep Calm [and Carry On]” slogan, included a t-shirt that read “Keep Calm and Rape A Lot.” Solid Gold Bomb generated the shirts, and Amazon offered them for sale […]

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Rethinking Online Culpability: The Amazon “Keep Calm” Shirts Controversy (Part 2: the Extension of Branding)

May 27, 2013

In early March, the online retailer Solid Gold Bomb provoked outrage when customers discovered that its Amazon store, which featured apparel bearing dozens of variants on the famed “Keep Calm [and Carry On]” slogan, included a t-shirt that read “Keep Calm and Rape A Lot.” Solid Gold Bomb generated the shirts, and Amazon offered them for sale […]

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Rethinking Online Culpability: The Amazon “Keep Calm” Shirts Controversy (Part 1: A/B Testing)

May 22, 2013

In early March, the online retailer Solid Gold Bomb provoked outrage when customers discovered that its Amazon store, which featured apparel bearing dozens of variants on the “Keep Calm [and Carry On]” slogan, included a t-shirt that read “Keep Calm and Rape A Lot.” Solid Gold Bomb generated the shirts, and Amazon offered them for […]

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The Future of the Internet: Five Years Later

Apr 1, 2013

In 2008, The Future of the Internet called attention to a “sea change” in the way consumer devices interact with the Internet. “The future is not one of generative PCs attached to a generative network,” the book warns; “it is instead one of sterile appliances tethered to a network of control.” In response to the […]

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About 7 hours ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

The reporting isn’t clear whether the reason for the firings is the unionization; the affected workers are part of a larger group. But this is another reason for the law to set a fair and level playing field for those doing this very real and, in these days, risky labor. twitter.com/verge/status/1…

Yesterday from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@hackylawyER @BKCHarvard @JulieOwono @leonardcortana @Senficon @carolinarossini @dsearls @jonniepenn 😂

Yesterday from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@CitizenCohn Ambitious math! 330m people x2 shots x75% = 495 million shots in ~7 months or 210 days. The rate of 100m in 100 days only gets 25% of the way there, so there'd have to be a quadrupling from the current stretch goal at the 100 day point.

About 2 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web App

Here's a great explainer from @evelyndouek on Facebook's referral of its indefinite suspension of Donald Trump's account to its new external content @OversightBoard, both for a binding ruling and for policy advice. @lawfareblog lawfareblog.com/facebook-has-…

About 2 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web App



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