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Remove Big Tech's Boot From Neck of Local News Jun. 19, 2019
The decline of the news industry is not entirely the fault of Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon, bu... Read More
Selfie-Inflicted Deaths a Sign of Bigger Problems Jun. 07, 2019
By November 2013, the term "selfie" had been used so frequently that the Oxford English Dictionary c... Read More
It's Springtime, Not Screentime. Teens Need to Put Their Phones Down and Live. May. 28, 2019
High school students from four St. Louis-area districts gathered on a Saturday afternoon in mid-May ... Read More
Don't Let Zuckerberg Kill Free Speech May. 15, 2019
This week, representatives from Facebook, Google and Twitter will join with European leaders and the... Read More
Continuing Oversight Is Needed to Ensure Facebook Takes Privacy Seriously May. 14, 2019
Facebook's recent revelation that it expects to be fined up to $5 billion by the Federal Trade Commi... Read More
Dealing With Debbie Downer May. 05, 2019
Dear Annie: What do you do with an old and dear friend who now says something negative at every oppo... Read More
Zuckerberg Cronyism Apr. 10, 2019
Please, regulate me! That was Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's message to Congress recently. "La... Read More
Playing Monopoly for Real Apr. 10, 2019
Shouting "Down with big government," today's tea party Trumpateers claim to be tax rebels — di... Read More
Zuckerberg's Plan for the Internet Would Be a Disaster for Free Expression Apr. 05, 2019
In a recent op-ed, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg implored the state to get more involved in gover... Read More
The Russians Didn't Need Trump Apr. 01, 2019
In between the Confederate monument and the tiki torch parade, there's a party goin' on. And there a... Read More
They Were on a Break Mar. 29, 2019
Sarah and Mark were engaged when she was "a very young 19." "I truly loved him, but few months prior... Read More
Will Consumers Drive Facebook Out of Business? Mar. 28, 2019
It's no secret that firms such as Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple have extraordinary levels of po... Read More
Elizabeth Warren's Plan to Break Up Big Tech Would Be Bad for America Mar. 15, 2019
Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has a new plan to break up Big Tech companies. The proposal en... Read More
The Attention Trap: Why We Suffer in the Social Media Economy Feb. 21, 2019
By now, many people are aware of the fascinating experiment conducted by Microsoft to track and inte... Read More
Uber-Gullible: Was a Woman Nearly Sex Trafficked by Her Driver? Feb. 21, 2019
When urban myths about stranger danger spread far and wide, we come to believe that the world is too... Read More
Quit Communicating Through the Internet! Jan. 27, 2019
Dear Cheryl: I intercepted a message from my wife of 30 years to her nephew. She was using our Faceb... Read More
Social Media Is Harming America; We Need to Do Something About It Jan. 18, 2019
By now, we know that social media is more likely to bring out the worst in us than the best in us. O... Read More
Social Media Is People Jan. 11, 2019
In the 1973 dystopian film "Soylent Green," Detective Frank Thorn, played by Charlton Heston, invest... Read More
Congress Needs to Understand Tech Issues; Shuttered Office of Experts Could Help Jan. 08, 2019
There once was a group of technology experts whose job was to educate members of Congress on cutting... Read More
Facebook Has Betrayed Users' Privacy More Than We Knew; Congress Must Act. Dec. 21, 2018
A New York Times probe has revealed the shocking true depths of Facebook's data mining of its users,... Read More
