Pavel Durov, the founder of VKontakte.com, has announced on his VK.com page that he has stepped down as the head of the social network — Russia's largest, with over 100 million users — after he said that it became "increasingly difficult" to run the social network after ownership changes put pressure on the company preserving its freedom of speech ethic.
On October 17th, during a speech on ethics reform, Donald Trump announced, "It is time to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C".
"Independence," he said in a recent speech on ethics, "is being free of foreign intervention, and freedom is giving people the freedom to express their opinions.
In a speech discussing ethics and the Internet, the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has tasked the technology industry and its coder army with paying continuous attention to the world their software is consuming as they go about connecting humanity through technology.
The internet seemed to erupt in collective anger last week when Mr. Spitzer gave a speech on ethics at Harvard Law.
The three-day conference, including off-site activities, was packed with sessions also focusing on media coverage of the refugee crisis, artistic freedom, whistleblowers and source protection, hate speech and ethics, gender issues, and freedom of information.
He said he has turned down offers to deliver speeches on ethics to corporations and other groups because he did not want his action turned into "a different kind of deal".
It can change a person completely — his tastes, sympathies, ethics, speech, dress, politics.
The lefties expect him to make a speech on business ethics wagging a finger at his contributors, which will make him look like a hypocrite.
"Siobhain Butterworth is one of the best media lawyers in the country and is an original and sophisticated thinker about issues around free speech and journalistic ethics.
While Eliot Spitzer gave his unpopular and derided ethics speech, David Paterson, in a terrifying display of exasperation and futility, called the Senate for a special session to approve his budget plan, on which he couldn't inspire them to vote.
