As we face more of these complex choices the role of regulators, competition authorities and consumer intermediaries becomes even more important in protecting, promoting and improving the choices consumers make.
The company's activities in mainland China, including an attempt to set up a trade center in Beijing and create a sponsored basketball team, as well as tens of millions of dollars in payments the Sands made through a Chinese intermediary, had become a focus of the federal investigation, according to reporting by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal in August.
They establish the situations in which the intermediary platform becomes liable for its users' content.
An intermediary can become a parasite.
It may not appear unreasonable at first glance, but taken seriously, this legal theory seems to encourage banks and other intermediaries to become "too big to jail".
The sites, which invited members to post a photograph and a few personal details—a profile and link to other members, exploited the peculiar logic of networks, by which large numbers of people are connected through a small number of intermediaries and become part of a vast virtual community.
An active trust in technology (smart meters), markets (reputation management, sanction systems), and organizations (supervision, trust intermediaries) will become indispensable for the prospective ES to work, given the critical role of decentralized consumption and feed-in units for system performance.
The identity of United as the club with principal interest in Mata could therefore have been masked by intermediaries until it became clear that there was business to be done.
Scholar-officials lost prominence in administration as eunuchs became intermediaries between the aloof emperor and his officials; any senior official who wanted to discuss state matters had to persuade powerful eunuchs with a bribe simply to have his demands or message relayed to the emperor.
Yousef also told me about Salem and other relatives, and he became an intermediary for them.
