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GRITtv: Can You Sue The Internet?
Google has gone from being a search engine to emerging as a world power: it has been pitted against governments and, as Clay Shirky notes, has its own foreign policy. In Italy, on February 24, three Google employees were convicted--with suspended jail sentences--of violating Italy's privacy statutes in relation to a video posted on YouTube, owned by the Web giant.
Shirky rejoins us at GRITtv along with Juan Carlos de Martin, founder and co-director of the Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Italy's Polytechnic University. They discuss the case, the implications for Google and YouTube, and how the Web continues to change and shape our understanding of the world.
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On February 24, three Google employees were convicted--with suspended jail sentences--of violating Italy's privacy statutes in relation to a video posted on YouTube, owned by the Web giant. Clay Shirky rejoins us at GRITtv along with Juan Carlos de Martin, founder and co-director of the Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Italy's Polytechnic University to discuss the case, the implications for Google and YouTube, and how the Web continues to change and shape our understanding of the world.
Continuing our coverage of the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, we bring you more footage from the Cine Institute, and Victoria Marquez, a member of the Service Employees International Union, tells her story of struggling for fair treatment in the workplace and why the U.S. needs comprehensive immigration reform now.
The owner of several downtown New York boutiques was arrested recently and faces four years in jail as well as civil lawsuits for up to $1.5 million. His crime? Not paying his employees for overtime, and paying some of them a flat rate of $340 a week for over 60 hours of work. Carolina Ferreyra was one of those employees, and when she found a flyer for the Retail Action Project, she helped to launch a protest that led to her boss's arrest. She joins us in studio with Phil Andrews of the Retail Action Project and Paul Sonn, legal co-director of the National Employment Law Project, to talk about wage theft, the problems workers face across the country, and what Obama's administration is doing to fight them.
Gentrification is a problem all over the world, not just in the urban areas of the U.S. In this video from visionOntv, a group of activists in Barcelona, Spain fight back against the pressure on their neighborhood.
Finally, if Warren Buffett is afraid of bankers, why can't regular people get some protection?
GRITtv: Clay Shirky: The Social Media Revolution
Clay Shirky, professor in New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, spoke with GRITtv about the way everyday citizens can use the same technology that brings us videos of a kitten on a treadmill to achieve results that strengthen and spread democracy and engagement around the world.
GRITtv: Nov. 2, 2009
Clay Shirky, professor in New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, talked with GRITtv about the way everyday citizens can use the same technology that brings us videos of a kitten on a treadmill to achieve results that strengthen and spread democracy and engagement around the world. Fahad Hashmi is an American citizen being held in solitary confinement in Lower Manhattan, facing several years in prison for the crime of providing and conspiring to provide material support and making and conspiring to make a contribution of goods or services to Al Qaeda. Jeanne Theoharis, associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College, CUNY and Fahad's former professor, Kathleen Chalfant and Wallace Shawn of Theaters Against War joins us to talk about Fahad's case, free speech and why we need to speak up for people like Fahad. Greenpeace brings us the latest from the global battle against climate change, and The Real News supplies an analysis of the ongoing conflict in Honduras: Will Zelaya return, and what will it change?
