The internet has given, and it has taken away. It has created abundant riches for some, and brought about staggering, even ruinous losses for others – and nowhere has this dichotomous paradigm been more apparent than in industries supported by copyright. People employed in the production of books, journalism, movies,... Read more
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is at it again – doing the bidding of their largest benefactors to the detriment of millions of American creatives who are looking toward their representatives in Congress to help them survive the scourge of digital piracy. We all know that the EFF starts tweaking... Read more
Since the 2016 Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook’s reputation has been on a much-deserved downward spiral, while Google has happily stepped back and watched them grab the bulk of the bad news headlines. Meanwhile, during that same time, Google has paid an aggregate nine billion dollars worth of antitrust fines dished out by... Read more
By Justin Sanders
The typical Facebook or YouTube comment thread is often a swamp of hate speech, bullying, misinformation, and outright lies. Sometimes, it is obvious that whomever is writing these comments is clueless, or never even experienced the thing they’re commenting on – and may just be malicious. Comments should be a... Read more
We’re Americans. We love sports. We get all wrapped up in the players on the field, or the court, or the ring, and we totally forget about the thousands of people who work behind the scenes to make our most exciting and treasured sports moments a reality. There are over 450,000... Read more
By Justin Sanders
Spotlighting the vital contributions of the creative community is part of our mission at CreativeFuture – especially when those contributions might not be so clear to everyone else. That’s why we’re delighted to now present 88-year-old Marilyn Kagan, whose lifetime of creative output represents the epitome of flying under the... Read more
By Justin Sanders
Facebook and Google have given us enough evidence for the urgency of #PlatformAccountability to last a lifetime… and that’s just in the seven weeks since the last time we published this series. Their burning dumpster fire burns hotter than ever, and the more they claim to be fighting it, the higher its... Read more
By Justin Sanders
Breaking their own exorbitant lobbyist-spending records has become a regular occurrence for Google – but that’s just one tool in their toolkit of political influence. Google also makes friends and influences people by soliciting scholarship at leading university campuses throughout the country. While dressed up as “research grants,” Google enriches a... Read more
Like many public organizations with strong opinions, we find that our social media posts attract a lot of strong support as well as a number of misinformed, mean-spirited, and even downright crazy online comments. We love our supporters and we silently curse the idiots who have nothing useful to offer.... Read more
By Justin Sanders
Even for the most well-adjusted among us, high school is a time when it’s easy to slip into loneliness, depression, and even despair. For Samantha Ramirez-Herrera, whose family moved to Arizona from Mexico when she was six years old, such feelings were a foregone conclusion. “High school was when I started... Read more