“People have a fundamental right to travel without being tracked.”
PRIVATE EYES ARE WATCHING YOU. AND SO ARE PUBLIC ONES, FROM MA TO …
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TELL CONGRESS: IT’S TIME TO INVESTIGATE AMAZON’S SURVEILLANCE EMPIRE
We need lawmakers to intervene. A Congressional hearing will help to expose Amazon’s invasive data harvesting practices and restrict it from acting as a paid informant for the surveillance state.
WELCOME TO HELL WORLD: DEMONSTRATORS IN BOSTON PROTEST AN UNRESPONSIVE AMAZON OVER ICE SALES
“They like to present these tools as being neutral ... but these tools are being sold to ICE and DHS specifically to track immigrants, to track activists, and to use that information across law enforcement networks to terrorize communities and split families apart."
NO MOONSHOT REQUIRED
Can a neoliberal columnist for a billionaire’s newspaper understand that a better MBTA is possible if we tax the rich (and make public transportation truly public)?
It’s hardly a secret that I’m no fan of Boston Globe columnist Shirley Leung’s writing on matters political and economic. Which clearly reflects her belief that bringing big corporations to Boston and shovelling public money at them is the best way ...
WEEKEND WARRIORS: BOOZY MASS-BASED STONER SHOW ON AMAZON PULLS ZERO PUNCHES
We asked about his comedy adventure and about getting his show about “a group of immature losers” on Amazon.
GUEST OPINION: BOSTON MUST REJECT AN AMAZON HEADQUARTERS FOR THE SAKE OF SMALL BUSINESSES
Overall, rather than creating countless exemptions worth billions in corporate welfare to the third richest company in the world, lawmakers should focus on supporting the growth of local small businesses, which pay their fair share in taxes without asking for special treatment.
BROKEN MEDIA, BROKEN POLITICS
YOUR MOVE, BOSTON
Only a massive protest movement can stop government giveaways to megacorps
Boston politics—in both its state and local variants—seems to consist largely of backroom deals between government officials and major corporations punctuated by rituals of representative democracy that are increasingly put on just for show. Perhaps ...
HUBWEAK: THE BOSTON GLOBE HAS HIT ROCK BOTTOM
Their “Dear Jeff” apple bob was a pathetic cornucopia of thick yellowish liquid produced in infected tissue, bubbling with rhetorical bacteria and mayonnaise.
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More reasons Boston should take a hard pass on Amazon
There are myriad practical reasons why Boston should walk away from the Amazon headquarters sweepstakes: an out-of-control real estate and rental market, chronic transit and traffic problems, and an overheated tech sector, which is exacerbating inequality. But ...
