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CURRENT STREET EDITION

DIG 23.02 – 1/28/21

Amazon

PRIVATE EYES ARE WATCHING YOU. AND SO ARE PUBLIC ONES, FROM MA TO …

Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Posted September 22, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“People have a fundamental right to travel without being tracked.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Alexa, Amazon, Massachusetts Pirate Party, Right to Repair, surveillance

TELL CONGRESS: IT’S TIME TO INVESTIGATE AMAZON’S SURVEILLANCE EMPIRE

Written by ALEX MARTHEWS Posted February 25, 2020 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

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.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Amazon, Boston Trolling, cameras, Congress, Digital Fourth, doorbell, Massachusetts, ring, surveillance

WELCOME TO HELL WORLD: DEMONSTRATORS IN BOSTON PROTEST AN UNRESPONSIVE AMAZON OVER ICE SALES

Written by LUKE ONEIL Posted September 10, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

“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."

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Amazon, Boston, DHS, ice, Luke O'Neil, Never Again Action, protests, Welcome to Hell World

NO MOONSHOT REQUIRED

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 24, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

MBTA Red Line train on the Moon (with astronaut and Moon Lander)

 

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Amazon, Apparent Horizon, Boston Globe, Civil Rights Movement, Column, Democracy, General Electric, Gov Charlie Baker, Jason Pramas, MBTA, Moon, neoliberal, neoliberalism, public transportation, Shirley Leung, socialism, socialist, Suren Moodliar, Wayfair

WEEKEND WARRIORS: BOOZY MASS-BASED STONER SHOW ON AMAZON PULLS ZERO PUNCHES

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 16, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Comedy, Film

We asked about his comedy adventure and about getting his show about “a group of immature losers” on Amazon.

Filed Under: A+E, Comedy, Film Tagged With: Amazon, hip-hop. Lowell, movies, Myster DL, TV, Weekend Warriors

GUEST OPINION: BOSTON MUST REJECT AN AMAZON HEADQUARTERS FOR THE SAKE OF SMALL BUSINESSES

Written by BENYAMIN B. LICHTENSTEIN Posted June 13, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

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.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Amazon, Bezos, Boston, H2, headquarters, HQ2, taxes

BROKEN MEDIA, BROKEN POLITICS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted May 1, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Charlie Baker

 

If Mass journalists were doing their jobs, Baker would not be so popular

 

It’s always funny to hear that Charlie Baker is a very popular governor… The most popular governor in the country at the moment,  ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Amazon, Apparent Horizon, biotechnology, boondoggle, Boston, Charlie Baker, Column, convention, corporate, corruption, economy, General Electric, Giveaway, higher education, Jason Pramas, Journalism, journalist, Massachusetts, MBTA, media, news, Politics, public, public transportation, Republican Party, taxes

YOUR MOVE, BOSTON

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 7, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Boston Women's March 2017. Photo by Ryan Dorsey, CC-BY-SA 2.0 Generic.

 

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Amazon, Apparent Horizon, boondoggle, Boston, Charlie Baker, Column, corporate, corruption, Democracy, economy, fight, General Electric, Giveaway, Jason Pramas, Jeff Bezos, Marty Walsh, Massachusetts, news, Politics, Protest, public, socialism, taxes

HUBWEAK: THE BOSTON GLOBE HAS HIT ROCK BOTTOM

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted October 23, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

Their “Dear Jeff” apple bob was a pathetic cornucopia of thick yellowish liquid produced in infected tissue, bubbling with rhetorical bacteria and mayonnaise.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Amazon, bospoli, Boston, Boston Globe, HUBweek, Jeff Bezos

JUST ASK DIAPERS.COM

Written by MO LOTMAN Posted October 11, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Jaguar image

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Amazon, Boston, capitalism, commerce, corporation, criticism, deal, Giveaway, jobs, labor, Massachusetts, monopoly, public, taxes

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