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Mueller: "What to do about .ORG"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 27, 2019

Nov. 27, 2019

*What to do about .ORG* /Milton Mueller//[1] / On November 13, the Internet Society announced that the .ORG domain registry will be sold to a for-profit private equity firm. Much of the community that pays attention to ICANN is in an uproar about it. There is now a movement to “Save .ORG;” there are claims that the sale was corrupt or unethical; there is loose talk about major price increases, wailings about “soulless capital” taking over the Internet, and a lot of interesting speculation about the role of former ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadi in the sale. Most of the basic facts about the sale have been reported elsewhere. A good summary from Samuel Klein is here <http://blogs.harvard.edu/sj/2019/11/23/a-tale-of-icann-and-regulatory-captu…>. Not so clear is what should be done about it. We are still debating the appropriate response by ICANN, the Internet Society, and the noncommercial domain registrants for whom .ORG was supposed to be their special place. In this article, we outline what we think is the problem and the appropriate responses to it. IGP believes that there is cause for concern, but civil society groups are in danger of losing credibility with poorly thought out or ineffectual responses. [...] continua qui: https://www.internetgovernance.org/2019/11/25/what-to-do-about-org/ [1] Milton Mueller is a founder of IGP an internationally prominent scholar specializing in the political economy of information and communication. He is the author of Will the Internet Fragment? (Polity, 2017), Networks and States: The global politics of Internet governance (MIT Press, 2010) and Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2002)

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The Next Big Cheap
by Carlo Blengino Nov. 27, 2019

Nov. 27, 2019

Le metafore sul BigData, la narrazione e la realtà: "Because cheap things don’t stay cheap forever, and the ongoing cheapification of big data will require an ever-expanding appropriation of land, labor, and human life." Da leggere: https://reallifemag.com/the-next-big-cheap/

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La Mairie de Paris veut maîtriser et taxer les livraisons d’Amazon
by Luigi Scorca Nov. 27, 2019

Nov. 27, 2019

https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2019/11/25/anne-hidalgo-veut-maitri… Luigi

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Il corriere Amazon
by don Luca Peyron Nov. 27, 2019

Nov. 27, 2019

Non un articolo tecnico, ma l'opzione umana, sotto Natale, perchè no? Buona lettura a chi desidera dl https://franzrossi.com/il-corriere-amazon/?fbclid=IwAR1G9KJPgddXa92h31THBFL… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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by fabio chiusi Nov. 27, 2019

Nov. 27, 2019

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U.S.-based chip-tech group moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears
by Giacomo Tesio Nov. 27, 2019

Nov. 27, 2019

Interessante rinculo del mercato globale. Ci sarebbe da riflettere sulla scelta della Svizzera come territorio neutrale. Giacomo _____ A U.S.-based foundation overseeing promising semiconductor technology developed with Pentagon support will soon move to Switzerland after several of the group’s foreign members raised concerns about potential U.S. trade curbs. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-semiconductors-insight/u-s-bas… The nonprofit RISC-V Foundation (pronounced risk-five) wants to ensure that universities, governments and companies outside the United States can help develop its open-source technology, its Chief Executive Calista Redmond said in an interview with Reuters. She said the foundation’s global collaboration has faced no restrictions to date but members are “concerned about possible geopolitical disruption.” “From around the world, we’ve heard that ‘If the incorporation was not in the U.S., we would be a lot more comfortable’,” she said. Redmond said the foundation’s board of directors approved the move unanimously but declined to disclose which members prompted it. [...] “There is a message for the government. The message is, if you clamp down on things too tightly this is what is going to happen. In a global supply chain world, companies have choices, and one choice is to go overseas,” he said. [...] Some Republican U.S. lawmakers said they are concerned the United States will lose influence over RISC-V chip architecture, which can be used to make microprocessors for almost every type of electronic device, making it a crucial building block of a modern economy. The technology came from labs at the University of California, Berkeley, and later benefited from funding by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). [...] “The Chinese Communist Party is trying to circumvent our export control system to support national security threats like Huawei - we cannot let it succeed,” Representative Mike Gallagher, a Republican from Wisconsin, told Reuters. Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton said moving the foundation to ensure it could retain Chinese members was “short-sighted at best.” He added that “if American public funds were used to develop the technology, it’s also completely outrageous.” [...] Morgan Reed, president of The App Association, which receives funding from major U.S. technology firms such as Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) in Washington, likened the RISC-V Foundation’s work to efforts between U.S. and Chinese companies to jointly develop Wi-Fi chip standards. “The notion that China can be barred from participating in standards alongside the U.S. and the EU is simply not viable,” Reed said. “China is too important as a manufacturer and an end-market to ignore.” [...] Alibaba claimed in July it had developed the fastest RISC-V processor to date. The company declined to comment for this story. The RISC-V Foundation’s move shows how U.S.-China trade tensions could make the United States a harder place to host technology standards groups, according to two attorneys who represent such groups. [...] The groups warned Ross that the Huawei restrictions posed a “serious risk” that standards work could move out of the United States, which could end a long-held trend where U.S.-based groups set de facto standards for the rest of the world, they wrote. [...] The RISC-V Foundation’s Redmond does not yet see a “credible threat” to international collaboration. “But we’re taking out an insurance policy against that type of action by moving our incorporation,” she told Reuters. [...] In response to Reuters questions, a Huawei spokesman said: “We support RISC-V Foundation identifying Switzerland as a neutral venue for open source development. Making open source as open as possible is important for the industry.” He said that RISC-V “might fit well into Huawei’s vision of this heterogeneous, open world.”

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WSJ: "U.S. Tech Companies Prop Up China’s Vast Surveillance Network"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 27, 2019

Nov. 27, 2019

*U.S. Tech Companies Prop Up China’s Vast Surveillance Network* / //Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others aided and profited from China’s multibillion-dollar surveillance industry, used in its Muslim crackdown/ By Liza Lin and Josh Chin Nov. 26, 2019 11:47 am ET Critical pieces of China’s cutting-edge surveillance state share a connection. They came from America. […] Continua qui: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-tech-companies-prop-up-chinas-vast-surveil…

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Amazon Warehouse Reports Show Worker Injuries - The Atlantic
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 26, 2019

Nov. 26, 2019

Ruthless Quotas at Amazon Are Maiming Employees This holiday season, Amazon will move millions of packages at dizzying speed. Internal injury reports suggest all that convenience is coming at the expense of worker safety. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/amazon-warehouse-rep… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Google’s Next Moonshot: Union Busting
by Giacomo Tesio Nov. 26, 2019

Nov. 26, 2019

Four of our colleagues took a stand and organized for a better workplace. This is explicitly condoned in Google’s Code of Conduct, which ends: “And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right — speak up.” When they did, Google retaliated against them. Today, after putting two of them on sudden and unexplained leave, the company fired all four in an attempt to crush worker organizing. Here’s how it went down: Google hired a union-busting firm. Around the same time Google redrafted its policies, making it a fireable offense to even look at certain documents. And let’s be clear, looking at such documents is a big part of Google culture; the company describes it as a benefit in recruiting, and even encourages new hires to read docs from projects all across the company. Which documents were off limits after this policy change? The policy was unclear, even explicitly stating the documents didn’t have to be labeled to be off limits. No meaningful guidance has ever been offered on how employees could consistently comply with this policy. The policy change amounted to: access at your own risk and let executives figure out whether you should be punished after the fact. We knew then, and it’s clear now: this policy change was setting up an excuse to retaliate against organizers, allowing the company a pretext for picking and choosing who to target. Using this policy, Google did all it could to frame our colleagues as “leakers.” This is a lie. And Google confirmed this when pressured. As Laurence, one of those fired today, said during a workers’ rally in San Francisco on Friday November 22nd, “I asked Google’s Global Investigations team, am I being accused of leaking? Their answer was one word: ‘No.’ This isn’t about leaking.” With these firings, Google is ramping up its illegal retaliation against workers engaging in protected organizing. This is classic union busting dressed up in tech industry jargon, and we won’t stand for it. Instead of upholding user trust, Google is choosing to hide unethical behavior instead of correct it, to double down on hostile workplace conduct instead of fixing it. They think this will crush our efforts, but it won’t. For every one they retaliate against, there are hundreds of us who will fight, and together we will win. One of the most powerful companies in the world wouldn’t be retaliating against us if collective action didn’t work. Stay tuned for more. _____ Tratto da https://medium.com/@GoogleWalkout/googles-next-moonshot-union-busting-7bd27… Tenete presente che la pagina informa (come moltissime altre) Google Analytics (e Cloudfront e...) che l'avete letta. In questo caso specifico, farsi tracciare acquisisce una funziona assertiva e politica. MA nutre comunque Google di informazioni che userà per farvi cambiare idea. Giacomo

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L’ex ragazza di Cambridge Analytica «Manipolavamo tutto: voti, comportamenti e coscienze»
by don Luca Peyron Nov. 26, 2019

Nov. 26, 2019

Una bella intervista che ci svela che il cuore dell'essere umano è sempre a rischio... Buona lettura dl https://www.corriere.it/sette/esteri/19_novembre_15/ex-ragazza-cambridge-an… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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