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Comment Not-a-monopoly PR pity-plan (Score 1) 152

by michaelcole (#59380672) Attached to: Apple Announces $2.5 Billion Plan To Ease California Housing Crisis
Apple's monopoly distorts it's markets so badly, it has to spend $2.5B on an after-market PR pity-plan aimed at schmoozing the California government. Luckily, $2.5B = 10,000 people * $250k. So 10,000 people could get $250k homes, except we're going to need to spend 50% of this money on non-profits and government programs for politicians to show they're really "making a difference in communities".

Submission + - Opinions about modern journalism? (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by michaelcole
michaelcole writes: You may have seen the Wall Street Journal's reporting that Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents.

The Register, has a funny and thought provoking article on the politics and integrity of modern news.

"What is remarkable is that the WSJ's investigative team was able to glean this information in a country in which it has but a single reporter. Despite the nation's small impact on the world, or on US interests, the WSJ has seemingly taken an intense interest in Ugandan affairs, covering events in the African nation no less than four times in the past year.

Compare that to, say Hong Kong, which the WSJ has written four stories about in the last four hours, or Mexico which has had three dedicated stories in the past week.

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The WSJ doesn't say how it obtained the documents, though it does reveal that Wine was recently in Washington DC where he had briefed the US government on events in Uganda and had received offers of assistance.

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# Dogged reporting

The fact that the WSJ was aware of Wine's Washington DC visit, and was able to track down internal police documents revealing Wine's surveillance is testament to the extraordinary skills and resources that the newspaper possesses. It appears the WSJ's single Uganda reporter took time out from writing regional reports about emerging and growth markets to track down highly confidential and politically sensitive documents that fingered state surveillance of a politician.

For reasons that are unclear, however, the WSJ story did not lead with the fact that Uganda has put a Washington-friendly politician under surveillance. Instead the main thrust of the piece was, for some reason, focused almost entirely on the smartphone maker whose engineers helped in the probe. In this case, it was, allegedly, the Chinese manufacturer Huawei."

Comment Advertising and Commerce need regulation (Score 1) 117

Whenever a CEO says regulation is needed, you can bet they are pointing at the wrong thing that needs regulation.

Apple, Google, Facebook are ADVERTISING and MEDIA companies.

Branding themselves as technology companies puts the blame on the tools and workers, instead of the owners and choices.

Comment The 13th amendment abolished involuntary servitude (Score 1) 180

"Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

Wanting an education in a high tech economy is not a crime.

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