Readings

The readings for this week focus on corporate personhood and antitrust:

Corporate Conscience

• How Corporations Got The Same Rights As People (But Don’t Ever Go To Jail)

• This Is the Hidden Nazi History of IBM — And the Man Who Tried to Expose It

• Tech workers pledge to never help Trump build Muslim registry

• Why Tech Worker Dissent is Going Viral (mirror: outline)

• The Techlash Has Come to Stanford

Antitrust

• How Google and Amazon Got Away With Not Being Regulated

• Long antitrust saga ends for Microsoft

• EU Hits Google With Record $2.7 Billion Antitrust Fine

• Tech and Antitrust

• The Right Way to Regulate Big Tech

Optional: Corporate Personhood

These articles discuss the idea of corporate personhood.

• If Corporations Are People, They Should Act Like It

• Corporate Personhood’s Long Life

• What is Corporate Social Responsibility?

Optional: Antitrust

These articles discuss the recent growing discussion over antitrust regulation.

• Watch out, Google, Amazon, and Facebook: the Justice Department just launched a major antitrust review

• The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do

• Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big?

Case Study: IBM and the Holocaust

These articles describe IBM's involvement in the Holocaust:

• IBM Statement on Nazi-era Book and Lawsuit

• IBM and the Holocaust

• I.B.M.'s Sales to the Nazis: Assessing the Culpability

Case Study: Muslim Registry

These articles describe a recent pledge to avoid building a Muslim Registry in the US:

• "Muslim registries", Big Data and Human Rights

• Apple, Google, and Uber join list of tech companies refusing to build Muslim registry

• America Already Had a Muslim Registry

Case Study: Microsoft Antitrust

These articles discuss the historic Microsoft Antitrust case:

• ‘Crush Them’: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley

• U.S. VS. MICROSOFT: The Overview; U.S. Judge Says Microsoft Violated Antitrust Laws With Predatory Behavior

• The eternal antitrust case: Microsoft versus the world

Case Study: Google Antitrust

These articles discuss the recent Google Antitrust cases:

• How did Google get so big?

• The Case Against Google

• Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary

Here are some related podcasts:

• 'World Without Mind': How Tech Companies Pose An Existential Threat

• Episode 787: Google Is Big. Is That Bad?

Quiz

Once you have completed the readings, fill out the following quiz:

Note, you can view the initial quiz score after you submit your responses. If you get any answers wrong, you can go back and adjust your answers as necessary. After the deadline has passed, any wrong answers will be given partial credit.