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Is Business Just Business? The Questions We’re All Asking About Decide’s Ties to Alt-right

3 years 6 months ago

"Online advertising is everywhere. And, —even the annoying ones with the clickbait headlines or dramatic claims about cures your doctor will hate— those ads are likely the backbone of the way your favorite websites make money.

You read their content, click their ads, and that click becomes cash.

And not just for the website you’re on. But for the companies which placed those ads using algorithms to automatically spread them at vast scale across the internet."

- Danny Wicentowski, reporter for St. Louis Public Radio

In this brief but informative podcast episode from St. Louis On the Air, another journalist discusses LockerDome's business with the Alt-right; and gets straight to the ethical concerns on every startup founder's lips:

If you're making money, where do you draw the line? Should you even draw a line?

Jonathan Allen

EA Announces New Anti-Cheat Tech That Operates At The Kernel Level

3 years 6 months ago
It seems anti-cheat technology is the new DRM. By that I mean that, with the gaming industry diving headfirst into the competitive online gaming scene, the concern over piracy has shifted into a concern over cheating making those online games less attractive to gamers. And because the anti-cheat tech that companies are using is starting […]
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