I rushed to the Internet for confirmation.
The Internet threatens final confirmation of Adorno and Horkheimer's dictum that the culture industry allows the "freedom to choose what is always the same".
The leading lights of the Frankfurt School, Adorno and Horkheimer, never lived to develop social media profiles, but they would have seen much of what the internet offers as confirmation of their view that the culture industry allows the "freedom to choose what is always the same".
The problem is when, as Jeff Bezos has said, the internet becomes a "confirmation bias machine". That's what I see we risk when we police speech under the guise of brand safety concerns.
But while the Internet waits for confirmation of a Google-Groupon agreement, Groupon is rolling out two new social features, Groupon Stores and the Deal Feed, both of which will streamline the service for users and merchants.
The results indicate that perceived enjoyment, perceived usefulness, internet self-efficacy, and confirmation of expectations all significantly influence the participants' satisfaction with use of the internet.
The data, collected by Arbor Networks, is the first quantitative confirmation that Internet traffic into and out of Bahrain has suffered an anomalous drop over the past days.
Much to my delight, the Internet agency sent my confirmation promptly, with a chit for a free cappuccino in a cafe near the Uffizi.
Where tweeters provide links, you can jump off to other places on the internet and often find confirmation of what they say: grainy videos of riots and demonstrations, and the dead and dying in hospitals.
While murky questions remained about the Internet company program, the confirmation of the calling log program solved a mystery that has puzzled national security legal policy observers in Washington for years: why a handful of Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee were raising cryptic alarms about Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the law Congress enacted after the 9/11 attacks.
This is as good as confirmation — by internet rumor-mongering standards, at least.
