Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Source: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – Movie Quotes – Rotten Tomatoes
Author: Nitesh Gautam
On how companies hide money of Superrich
A massive trove of documents, data, and recorded phone calls showing how British company Formations House works to hide money for the superrich is being reported on by journalists all over the world, with the first stories dropping at midnight on Wednesday.
On Tuesday The Times of London showed, via undercover reporting, how Formations House sets up shell companies for its clients.
McClatchy reported on how Formations House helped Iran’s national oil company avoid sanctions.
On policies
Algorithms are based on policies, and policies are created by humans – humans with bias, and humans who are often working to protect the interests of their corporate clients.
Exclusive: Victoria’s Secret Influence on Instagram’s Censorship Policies
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On Internet as a city
If the contemporary internet is a city, Wikipedia is the lone public park; all the rest of our public spaces are shopping malls—open to the general public, but subject to the rules and logic of commerce.
A public service Web invites us to imagine services that don’t exist now, because they are not commercially viable, but perhaps should exist for our benefit, for the benefit of citizens in a democracy.
Source: Building a More Honest Internet – Columbia Journalism Review