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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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@davidshor @MattWeiner19 @ksusys @WayofDade @acid_communist @mattyglesias How does this dynamic play out on the right? Are mainstream Rs not much distinguished by voters from the America First Almost-Caucus firebrands? (To the detriment of electability?)

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@MattZeitlin Yeah, and I imagine lots of families are wondering about traveling with kids who aren’t yet eligible for vaccines.

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I’m trying to square these remarks with any conception of the responsibilities of public service and the rule of law, and coming up short. twitter.com/atrupar/status…

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@BostonJoan @jkosseff Why would CC require payment? Just because of changed dynamics once everything had to be carried? Or because payment is typically the predicate for carriage for planes and trains and Verizon service?

About 2 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@jkosseff And we haven’t even mentioned Wiki yet. I guess it would just be categorically exempt.

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