10 years ago on January 20 (2012) megaupload.com was shut down: torrentfreak.com/10-years-ago-the-feds-shut-down-megaupload-220120.
Jane Kitchen transferred from Bryn Mawr to Hillsdale: bariweiss.substack.com/p/last-year-i-was-a-bryn-mawr-girl. Hillsdale is traditionally regarded as conservative, and they have opted out of any federal support because of the attached strings.
Covid played a role, but a big part of Kitchen's dissatisfaction with Bryn Mawr was the lack of "sit[ting] around with my friends all night arguing about big questions".
One of the goals of this course is to give you, well, at least medium-sized questions to argue about. What are the limits of Fair Use? Do we need privacy regulation? Should Section 230 be changed? If so, which way? Should software be patentable? Should Google be broken up?
Finish Smyth v Pillsbury
What the heck did Judge Weiner think privacy was all about?
Advertising
cookies
trackers
Location information
Muslim Pro
Msgr Burrill
Ad blocking
Target and Pregnancy
Life insurance
RFID
SSN
Price discrimination
Shopper surveillance