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Doc Searls Project VRM

May 13, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

About: http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/about/ https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2015/09/18/debugging-adtech-assumptions/ Wrong. If people have a real relationship with a company, they want it to be with sales or service. That’s it. For example, I have a great relationship with the service department of East Coast Volkswagen in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. I’m on a first-name basis with the guys there, who know … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Thinking about Tagged: AD BLOCKING, Advertising, Apple Computers, Consumers, Cookies, Doc Searls blog, Facebook, Freedom from annoyance, GOOGLE, Internet ADTECH, Internet Vendors, Malware, Privacy, Spyware, Tracking, VRM

The FCC Speaks to ALEC

May 8, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Read this closely, it is unedited, force yourself, read all the way to the end and see what our new administration is doing and thinking. It makes my skin crawl. Remarks of FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly Before the American Legislative Exchange Council’s Spring Task Force Summit Annual Summit, Charlotte, NC May 5, 2017 Thank you … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Thinking about Tagged: 2015 Net Neutrality Order, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, broadband, common carrier, Congressional Review Act, CRA, FCC, FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly, Federal Communications Commission, Internet, Municipal Broadband, Net Neutrality, Privacy, Title II, Universal Service, Voice over Internet Protocol, VoIP

Our economy is a hellscape for consumers.

April 12, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

An insightful op-ed piece in the Washington Post today, by Jacob Silverman. He says: Our economy is a hellscape for consumers. The United flier is the latest victim. Supposedly we live in a service-focused paradise where you can get anything you want. It’s a lie. The video in which police and airport security maul a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Racism, Thinking about Tagged: Air Travel, Airlines, Consumer, corporate power, dioramas of market dysfunction, marketization, power relationships, Privacy, skyboxification, Tomorrowland, Tracking

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