Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.
Peter Kreeft
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No one can pretend Facebook is just harmless fun any more
I don’t use facebook for many reasons, lack of time, lack of interest, lack of friends. But as I learn more about facebook’s dark under belly I am starting to wear is as a badge of honor; as a point of pride. Read this and worry.
Academics reeling as market discipline comes to the University of Wisconsin
Thomas Lifson writes that “the reckoning is coming.”
The cohorts of students headed for colleges and universities is declining, and tuition has now priced itself beyond reach for many. The folly of student loan indebtedness is becoming clear to more and more young people and their parents.
At the same time
[…] online higher education is available for a tiny fraction of the cost of physical presence on a campus[.]
He concludes
No doubt, those who celebrate this transition will be castigated as anti-intellectual barbarians. But the real barbarians are those who drove academia into self-absorbed obsessions of the left, making it irrelevant to the needs of students, while overloading their schools with administrative dead weight that has pushed up tuition to unaffordable levels.
All is proceeding as Glenn Reynolds predicted in his book.
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District Judge Rules in Favor of hiQ in Lawsuit Against LinkedIn over Use of Publicly Available Data
LinkedIn blocked HiQ Labs scraping claiming it was in violation of their terms of service. HiQ filed suit and won a preliminary injunction restoring their ability to scrap LinkedIn. The judge is concerned that LinkedIn’s blocking “access to public data, possibly as a means of limiting competition, violates state law.”
This is a developing situation. The ruling could have far reaching implications throughout the web. It is sure to be challenged by the owners’ of data (including Google and Amazon)–there is much money at stake.
Read more here.