Letters
Pair data-protection laws with universal opt-out mechanism
Why would Congress protect only a small proportion of citizens? What about victims of domestic violence, teachers, health care workers, our children, ourselves?
Opinion
Innovation doesn’t mean what you think it does
For me, put simply, innovation is about solving problems.
Opinion
Boston’s biotech boom must bring along Black and brown residents
This is immense work, and it will require the collaboration of government agencies, elected officials, developers, biotech companies, schools, and the community.
Ideas
Q&A: Shouldn’t we all just use our real names online?
No, argues Jeff Kosseff. In his new book, the prominent defender of online anonymity wades into the thicket of First Amendment protections for speech on the Internet.
Ideas
Facebook ought to be protecting democracy worldwide every day
Meta has shown it’s willing to “break glass” in case of a democratic emergency. It’s time to make that the norm rather than the exception.
Letters
@FriedrichNietzsche — imagine that
The opportunity to tame and curate the metaphorical heap of information by employing the Internet’s blink-of-an-eye search tools would possibly have led to his amazed approval.
Ideas
Confessions of a professional clickbait writer
Thanks to Google and some canny search engine optimization, my articles are read by hundreds of thousands of people a month. Just don’t mistake them for the best information.
Letters
Do we want social media firms censoring critiques of US role in world events?
Every war has tangled roots and causes, including the one in Ukraine. Academic and political debate about these causes should not be censored by tech companies.