Do Media Producers Have Obligations to the Greater Society?

I wrote an article a few years ago that generated some positive responses and ended up being cited as a source in another random article that I had come across on the web, in which I laid out an argument for professional media producers to take responsibility for the products they create in terms of their affect on society at large. While that article is still valid, it does not address the growing issues of spontaneous mobile media creation in light of the rise of smartphone and tablet use.

While I do not see this as a censorship issue, it is hard to get around the fact that we are in an era when it is increasingly more difficult to protect

Does SCOTUS Intend to Grant Human Rights to Robots?

In the wake of the Hobby Lobby verdict, which rested heavily on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, it becomes increasingly important to question the direction that the Supreme Court of the United States of America has taken in terms of granting Human Rights to Corporations.

Corporations have existed in legal terms with a sort of mysterious "personhood" since their inception. It was a clever construct that allowed for better governance structures for big businesses and also as a means for privately held businesses to be separated from their owners. This is all well and good as long as the "personhood" aspect is understood to be metaphorical. In the reality that most humans live in,

Where You Can Find 3rd Party Political Discussion on Facebook

You may have noticed that this blog is not updated on a regular basis. Part of the reason for this is that we are trying other social networking venues as well. Each platform is suited to particular forms of discussion and trying to keep them all interlinked can be tedious. However, our efforts are currently on our Facebook presence. This forum will remain open for original content, though Facebook will probably be more frequently updated with links to outside sources as well as links back here and discussions that are unique to the Facebook page.

We hope that you will all take the time to Like the Facebook page for the 3rd Party. Looking forward to seeing you there!