I am setting up this blog to address a number of technical and legal issues that, over the long run, can affect the freedom of media newbies like me to speak freely on the Internet and other low-cost media that have developed in the past ten years.
Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!
Baby boomers and hyperindividualism; paywalls and the lack of neutrality
Sean Illing has a damning interview article on Vox, “How
the baby boomer – not millennials – screwed America”,link.
Illing interviews Bruce Gibney, author of “A Generation
of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America”. The boomers. If born
after 1946 (I was born in 1943) never new personal sacrifice, so they took the
world for granted.
But then should this become a condemnation of
individualism?
The boomers were willing to let their own kids and
grandkids get squeezed into increasing debt.
An essay by Jason Furman on Project Syndicate expresses
a similar concern less directly.
With this site I ran into a rather aggressive paywall. It sounds like the site wants to hook you
into therm, and not visit other opinions sites.
If you think about it, that’s how the website world could work some day
in a no-neutrality environment. Only
relatively few aggregate speakers compared today can be heard, so they have to
charge and get you to join them. It’s a
kind of forced tribalism.
Update: Dec 25 Here's anothersite, shared by Rick Sincere, with good articles, that now has a free-content max per month (paywall). It's as if some of these companies want a world where only sites with paywalls are up so that everybody has to compete to become "your news provider". That is how some people see things.
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