TIDBIT: DAILY BELL CHIEF ANTHONY WILE CALLS IT QUITS
July 16, 2013 / /
Well folks, it looks like The Daily Bell is to be no more. I don't know about you, but I will miss their consistent libertarian and "Austrian school" take on things:
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question is: why now?
This is a surprise as they’d announced an expansion of features just last week as I recall.
Another sad day in the digital commons. A commons that was bred from the hacker culture that emerged, typified by its committment to information being free and available. There was, at the same time, a hostility to centralized authority and secrecy. And the backdrop to it all was the joy o learning knowledge.
Thus, it is ne suprise that nothing enraged the internet community more than advertising & commercialism.
So both worlds collide; and, as in elections, it’s money vs. money. In other words – no choice.
No Daily Bell.
No democracy.