(Black Voices) — When U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) seized hip-hop blogs OnSMASH.com and dajaz1.com last Thursday, we were left asking, “When did rap become a threat to national security?” For ICE it was a matter of copyright infringement, and the same way they’d crack down on a site for selling counterfeit goods, they […]
(Chicago Tribune) — The longest Samuel Johnson has ever been able to give up menthol cigarettes is three months. Every time he tries to quit, he said, that cool, minty flavor that first drew him and other African-American smokers to menthols lures him back. “Everybody has a habit and mine is smoking cigarettes,” said Johnson, 20, […]
(New York Times) — When insider-trading scandals plagued the financial markets in the late 1980s, lawmakers created a bounty program for whistle-blowers, allowing regulators to reward tipsters who uncovered evidence of manipulation. The effort largely failed, in part because the issue of whether to make a reward payment was left to the discretion of regulators. […]
The administration seeks new laws and a regulator to check an increasingly absorbing digital space.