Information Interruptus: Bing, Google and The News Media Bargaining Code

Information Interruptus: Bing, Google and The News Media Bargaining Code

It’s looking a touch quixotic, but the News Media Bargaining Code has become Australia’s weapon of choice in attempting to redistribute proceeds from big tech into the coffers of a withering fourth estate. It has now reached a point of sufficient concern for Google as to become threatening, winding its way to a Senate Committee…

Collective Hysteria: Western Leaders Work to Alter the Definition of Reality

Collective Hysteria: Western Leaders Work to Alter the Definition of Reality

U.S. leaders seek to suggest that America still has the power to alter ‘reality’ to fit to its own exceptionalist myth. President Putin in 2007 (at Munich) challenged the West: ‘We didn’t. You did; You continuously attack Russia; but we shall not bend’. The audience sniggered. Now, speaking at (a virtual) Davos this last month,…