All EFF’d Up

The lords of the internet care very little about user privacy—what they want to preserve, is their own commercial license against government regulation of any kind. By Yasha Levine.
Read more: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/all-effd-up-levine?source=Snapzu

Netflix Terminates Contract With The Weinstein Co.

Netflix won a U.S. Bankruptcy Court’s approval to terminate its output deal with The Weinstein Company, a settlement that means the streaming service won’t be obligated to stream a third season of MTV’s Scream. The agreement, filed today (read it here), comes as Lantern Entertainment continues to work through various objections stemming from The Weinstein Co.’s bankruptcy, in hopes of establishing productive relationships in Hollywood.
Read more: https://deadline.com/2018/07/netflix-terminates-contract-weinstein-co-lantern-1202428247/?source=Snapzu

Say goodbye to black food, NYC. New ban prohibits use of activated charcoal

A dark day for NYC Instagrammers, indeed.
Read more: https://matadornetwork.com/read/black-food-nyc-ban-activated-charcoal/?source=Snapzu

Can Truth Survive Trump?

WaPo Fails to Ask How Well Truth Was Doing to Begin With. By Dean Baker.
Read more: https://fair.org/home/can-truth-survive-trump-wapo-fails-to-ask-how-well-truth-was-doing-to-begin-with/?source=Snapzu

Walmart may launch a video streaming service to battle Netflix, Amazon

The retail giant wants to offer video streaming at a more accessible price point.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/walmart-may-launch-a-video-streaming-service-to-battle-netflix-amazon/?source=Snapzu

Australians tried to do the right thing by recycling but then we discovered we’d been played for mugs

Keep America Beautiful managed to shift the entire debate about America’s garbage problem. ... the ‘litterbug’ became the real villain, and KAB supported fines and jail time for people who carelessly tossed out their trash, despite the fact that, clearly, ‘littering’ is a relatively tiny part of the garbage problem in this country.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2018/jul/19/its-not-recycling-its-collecting-how-australians-were-sucked-into-the-crisis?source=Snapzu

An Alaska National Park as Big as Connecticut. Annual Visitors? 23,000.

You can get to gorgeous Lake Clark National Park and Preserve only by boat or plane. That’s kept the hordes away.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/travel/lake-clark-national-park-alaska.html?source=Snapzu