Dominic Young

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I’ve been around the news media and the internet since the beginning. I am interested in copyright as the basis for a thriving and balanced creative sector and society. Also interested in how the failure of copyright and other laws has led to terrible outcomes for the internet and everyone who uses it. I’ve done a lot of things around these issues.

Category: Facebook

  • Fake news and the faded idealism of the web

    Tim Berners Lee issued an epistle recently, a call to action to save the web from some dangers which concern him. One of them “misinformation” (or “fake news” as it rather more commonly and hysterically known). It’s a problem, he says. Everyone says it, and they’re right. Tim doesn’t identify the solution but he does…

  • When is a link not a link?

    When is a link not a link? When someone posts a link on Facebook, the first thing that Facebook does it make a little abstract of the page they’re linking to and post it underneath. The headline, a picture or logo, a little bit of text. Takes a second or two to appear. Very handy.…

  • About that photo on Facebook… we’re blaming the wrong people

    Not long ago there was an eruption of anger and indignation about Facebook’s repeated censorship of Nick Ut’s upsetting and famous picture of a Phan Thi Kim Phuc running from napalm in Vietnam. The thing that surprised me about it wasn’t what Facebook did, but that news organisations went to the trouble of inviting them to do…