South Korea has progressed immensely in infrastructure since the 1970s. Technological companies such as LG and Samsung and other hi-tech chaebols alike have shaped the modern economy of the country: bringing massive economic prosperity to the country on the brinks of poverty half a century earlier and establishing an edge in technologies such as semiconductors, displays, and mobile phones. South Korea also is partnered with Russia in its space exploration, according to the article A Closer ...
Ajit Pai, FCC chairman appointed by Donald Trump and supporter of repealing net neutrality has played a substantial role in leading the agency to repeal net neutrality in 2017. The ABC article, Net Neutrality Vote’s Major Players outlines some of the other major players are the five members of the commission who repealed the bill with their 3-2 vote in favor of abandoning net neutrality established in 2015 and Tom Wheeler, the former chairman of the FCC during the Obama Administration who ...
Taylor Swift, U2, and 120 other artists signed an open letter calling on lawmakers to reform the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, or DMCA, according to the article titled, The Music Industry’s New War is About So Much More Than Copyright. Further, this open letter targets ad-supported streaming as a major hurdle for artists, the letter specifically ‘takes aim at “Section 512 of the law, which gives user-generated content platforms “safe harbor’ from liabilities related to copyright ...
In 2012 Christopher Otey, an Astoria resident from Oregon sued Crowdflower for violating the Fair Labor Standards Act on the basis that the company paid less than the $7.25 minimum wage to employees. He used Crowdflower as a full-time position since he could not find work. According to the article Tech Company CrowdFlower Denies Labor Violation, Companies like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and Crowdflower allows users to complete “minute, repetitive tasks that are too subjective and subtle for ...