3 chapters across the catalog
A discussion emerges regarding whether social media bots possess First Amendment rights to free speech. Referencing a thread on Slashdot, the hosts debate the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling that money is speech. They argue that while bots may have speech rights, they lack the purchasing power that advertisers actually value.
Publications like Slashdot and Hacker News have analyzed the government's Joint Analysis Report on Russian hacking and found a lack of concrete proof. Skilled technical observers are noted for their silence or skepticism regarding the official narrative presented by the Obama administration.
A retrospective on early internet legal and ethical battles, including "bandwidth theft" via deep-linking to images and the practice of "framing" other websites to steal advertising revenue. These issues were prominent in the early 2000s during the rise of blogs and Slashdot.
