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" ... "They could be used for the wrong purpose," said David Fink, a partner at Kelley Drye & Warren who specializes in media and entertainment litigation. He cited the 1947 case of the Hollywood Ten, when filmmakers accused of being communist sympathizers were jailed and blacklisted from the industry. Back then, studios used morality clauses to terminate their contracts. ... "
" ... Almost every investor I know believes that the tools of surveillance and Big Data are only used against the marginalized Other – terrorist “sympathizers” in Yemen, gang “associates” in Compton – but not us. Oh no, not us. And if those tools are trained on us, it’s only to promote “transparency” and weed out the bad guys lurking in our midst. Or maybe to suggest a movie we’d like to watch. What could possibly be wrong with that? I’ve written a lot (here, here, and here) about what’s wrong with that, about how the modern fetish with transparency, aided and abetted by technology and government, perverts the core small-l liberal institutions of markets and representative government. ... "
" ... An exaggerated comparison? Yes. But enough to fire her? Doubtful. She’s more guilty of a bad comparison. Gina should have likened today’s conservative cancel culture to the 1950s Congressional hearings held to expose entertainment people who were members or sympathizers of the Communist Party. Ten influential actors and screenwriters were eventually jailed and blacklisted by the major movie studios for denouncing the hearings and refusing to name those who had expressed Communist sympathies. That’s a better comparative. Ironically, when Disney fired Gina for her opinions it inadvertently proved her point. ... "
" ... As its customer base grew, however, cracks began to show in Palantir's idealistic culture. In early 2011 e-mails emerged that showed a Palantir engineer had collaborated on a proposal to deal with a WikiLeaks threat to spill documents from Bank of America. The Palantir staffer had eagerly agreed in the e-mails to propose tracking and identifying the group's donors, launching cyberattacks on WikiLeaks' infrastructure and even threatening its sympathizers. When the scandal broke, Karp put the offending engineer on leave and issued a statement personally apologizing and pledging the company's support of "progressive values and causes." Outside counsel was retained to review the firm's actions and policies and, after some deliberation, determined it was acceptable to rehire the offending employee, much to the scorn of the company's critics. ... "
" ... The six-episode Civil War drama Mercy Street, which debuted Jan. 17 on PBS, follows the lives of doctors, nurses soldiers and sympathizers on both sides of the war who are in some way connected to a luxury hotel that’s been turned into a Union hospital in Alexandria, Va. Both television critics and historians agree the show stays true to the era not only with its historically appropriate costumes, hairstyles and accessories but also with its detail-oriented eye for medical accuracy. ... "