FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
The lesson we should draw from Eoin Higgins’ book, Owned, is that unless we build up an alternative, democratic media to fill the current void, an ideologically driven cohort of rich industrialists will monopolize the communication space, manufacturing consent for an economic order that, surprise, puts them at the top.
“States have the ability to simply say, ‘You can’t sell this stuff…and then unsell it using an unfair and deceptive contract.'”
Industry still argues that that cellphone isn’t really “yours,” in the sense that you can’t fix it if it breaks.
“They’re saying, hey, it might be a tractor, but it has a computer in it, and we own the software on the computer. And you have an implied license to operate the software on the tractor, but you don’t actually own the software that’s on the tractor.”
“They’re saying, hey, it might be a tractor, but it has a computer in it, and we own the software on the computer. And you have an implied license to operate the software on the tractor, but you don’t actually own the software that’s on the tractor.”
