ethics

The most active "user" on the news.YC turned out to be the site creator. Wow. Especially after his most recent essay on intellectual honesty.

"I do know, though, that the TV, movie and record companies' problems have only just begun. Right now, the customers who can't even *see* why file sharing might be wrong are still young. But 10, 20, 30 years from now, more...

“UK operator, O2 has reportedly sacked at least six staff who used their staff discount to buy Apple iPhones - then later sold them on the eBay auction website for a significant profit. It's understood that the employees, all based more...

The computer-networked, digital world poses enormous threats to humanity that no government, no matter how totalitarian, can stop. A fully open society is our best chance for survival.

A senior member of the Bush dynasty is about to get a large sum of money from a company with a history of ethical violations. Stop me if you've heard this one before. Jeb Bush, the president's brother and former more...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to pay a million dollars for fake meat -- even if it has caused a "near civil war" within the organization.

Progressive film director Robert Greenwald is scheduled to testify at a hearing on Thursday, May 10 about war profiteering. He requested to show a few minutes of one of his films, but Republicans blocked his request. Here’s what Congress won’t more...

“Manufactured meat, in theory, provides an end run around these issues. What if you can have your meat, be ethical, and environmental, too? (And presumably they’ll engineer the bad fats out as well….)”

You can look at it two different ways: 1) Alberto Gonzales has been revealed to be at best an incompetent amnesiac and at worst an apparatchik determined to cover up the White House's total control of the Justice Department. He's more...

The US house of representatives today passed a bill outlawing illegal domestic wiretapping by the government.