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Feds sue pharmacy gatekeepers over high insulin costs
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Feds sue pharmacy gatekeepers over high insulin costs

Politico  

The action is just the latest government effort to take aim at high drug costs in the U.S., where patients and insurers spend more on medicine than other countries. “The FTC’s administrative action seeks to put an end to the Big Three PBMs’ exploitative conduct and marks an important step in fixing a broken system — a fix that could …

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European Union Investigates Tech Giants Apple, Google, Meta Under New Digital Law
9 months, 2 weeks ago

European Union Investigates Tech Giants Apple, Google, Meta Under New Digital Law

News 18  

The EU on Monday hit Apple, Google parent Alphabet and Meta with the first ever probes under a mammoth digital law, which could lead to big fines against the US giants. Since March 7, six of the world’s biggest tech companies — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, TikTok owner ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft — have had to comply with the EU’s landmark …

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The problem with India’s science management
11 months, 3 weeks ago

The problem with India’s science management

The Hindu  

Sustained economic progress which can satisfy national ambition is invariably fuelled by scientific advances translated into deployable technologies. Alive to this reality, the government is overhauling India’s science establishment, which includes setting up the new National Research Foundation and restructuring the Defence Research and Development Organisation. An outsized role by scientists The defining feature of India’s science administration is the …

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Agra director Kanu Behl: 'It is not a matter of the audience's taste or need, its more on the gatekeepers'
1 year, 2 months ago

Agra director Kanu Behl: 'It is not a matter of the audience's taste or need, its more on the gatekeepers'

Hindustan Times  

Kanu Behl is ready with his latest film Agra. After its World Premiere at the Director's Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, Agra is ready to meet its home audience at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. In this exclusive chat with Hindustan Times, director Kanu Behl opened up about his film, and the larger conversation pertaining to a certain …

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Big Tech's core businesses face overhaul under EU tech rules
1 year, 4 months ago

Big Tech's core businesses face overhaul under EU tech rules

The Hindu  

The EU Commission on Wednesday designated 22 services of six major tech companies as "gatekeepers" of online services providing messaging to video sharing in its latest crackdown on Big Tech. Under the DMA, which came into force in November, companies with more than 45 million monthly active users and a market capitalisation of 75 billion euros are considered gatekeepers providing …

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Billy Porter calls out the ‘gatekeepers’ responsible for Harry Styles’ Vogue cover
1 year, 4 months ago

Billy Porter calls out the ‘gatekeepers’ responsible for Harry Styles’ Vogue cover

LA Times  

Billy Porter has elaborated on his widely circulated remarks about Harry Styles’ historic Vogue cover — and called Anna Wintour a “b—” in the process. “It’s not Harry Styles’ fault that he happens to be white and cute and straight and fit into the infrastructure that way,” Porter told the Telegraph. “And I was so taken off guard that I …

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Betjeman banned, Auden ‘too filthy’ – why do we still have politicians acting as gatekeepers to the poetic tradition?
1 year, 5 months ago

Betjeman banned, Auden ‘too filthy’ – why do we still have politicians acting as gatekeepers to the poetic tradition?

The Independent  

I spend half my life banging on about how awful the government is and yet the thought that some of them might pass comment on my poetry deeply offends my artistic sensibilities. I haven’t rushed to buy a copy but it did at least lead to an amusing exchange on Twitter where centrists mistook lines from Shelley’s “The Masque of …

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Explained | What is the E.U. Digital Markets Act?
2 years, 2 months ago

Explained | What is the E.U. Digital Markets Act?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Digital Markets Act entered into force in the European Union on November 1, seven months after it was agreed for by the European Parliament in March this year. In addition to managing a ‘core platform service’, a company must have accrued an annual turnover of at least €7.5 billion in each of the last three …

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NFT Music: the gatekeepers are changing
3 years, 5 months ago

NFT Music: the gatekeepers are changing

The Hindu  

Earlier this year, Singaporean-Tamil entrepreneur Metakovan aka Vignesh Sundaresan ignited an entire movement about the way art is valued in the digital world when he purchased an NFT artwork for $69 million. Then in late April, Metakovan once again made headlines for purchasing an NFT of Tamil singer-composer Kaber Vasuki’s 2012 demo version of a song called ‘Vasanam’. It’s currently …

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Dibakar Banerjee on 'polarised' reviews of Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar: 'Gatekeepers need to be more nuanced'
3 years, 7 months ago

Dibakar Banerjee on 'polarised' reviews of Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar: 'Gatekeepers need to be more nuanced'

Hindustan Times  

Dibakar Banerjee has addressed the 'polarised' reviews that his film Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar got upon its release, before it was accepted more enthusiastically on streaming. Parineeti Chopra and Arjun Kapoor in a still from Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar. Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar, starring Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra, languished on the shelf for some time before being given a …

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When the gatekeeper’s party was gate-crashed!
3 years, 11 months ago

When the gatekeeper’s party was gate-crashed!

The Hindu  

Social media has, for a significant while, been an effective tool for sportspersons to communicate with their fans directly and without any barriers. Sites like The Players’ Tribune, founded in 2014 by baseball icon Derek Jeter after his retirement from the New York Yankees, work with athletes to tell their own stories. “Journos can either accept this situation, play second …

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White Mughals, Whitewashing, Whitesplaining: The neo-colonial manipulation of our history by its self-appointed gatekeepers
4 years, 5 months ago

White Mughals, Whitewashing, Whitesplaining: The neo-colonial manipulation of our history by its self-appointed gatekeepers

Firstpost  

As long as we allow people with colonial mentalities to act as the self-appointed gatekeepers of our own history, culture, and knowledge systems, placing them upon a pedestal because of their accents or social circles, the process of decolonisation is incomplete. Those three flowery words sure are a strange way to say, “abducted at age 12, enslaved, groomed, trafficked, and …

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Smart assistants are becoming gatekeepers to Digital Economy
4 years, 5 months ago

Smart assistants are becoming gatekeepers to Digital Economy

Live Mint  

The Apple Watch and the Siri digital assistant inside it; Amazon.com Inc’s Echo speakers and Alexa service; the data about eating habits recorded by internet-connected refrigerators -- all are potential targets in a European Union competition probe. Vestager’s probe is likely to examine issues such as Siri’s preference for using Apple Music rather than Spotify Technology SA’s service, and Amazon …

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Sushant Singh Rajput passes away: Ranvir Shorey calls out 'self-appointed gatekeepers of Bollywood' on Twitter
4 years, 6 months ago

Sushant Singh Rajput passes away: Ranvir Shorey calls out 'self-appointed gatekeepers of Bollywood' on Twitter

Firstpost  

Ranvir Shorey, in a series of multiple tweets, has spoken about the possible role of the ‘Bollywood privilege club’ in Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. The latest celebrity to shine some light on the “self-appointed gatekeepers of Bollywood” is actor Ranvir Shorey. — Ranvir Shorey June 15, 2020 Elaborating on the so-called ‘gatekeepers’ of the film industry, Shorey wrote that it …

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Billie Eilish’s obliviousness shows sports stars the way in fighting back against the gatekeepers of nostalgia
5 years, 1 month ago

Billie Eilish’s obliviousness shows sports stars the way in fighting back against the gatekeepers of nostalgia

The Independent  

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It's hard to tell exactly where we are in the life-cycle of …

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Dubious environmental group Gatekeepers of Our Reef 'infiltrates' Stop Adani movement
5 years, 8 months ago

Dubious environmental group Gatekeepers of Our Reef 'infiltrates' Stop Adani movement

ABC  

A mysterious environmental group fronted by dubious online identities — including one endorsed by a former Liberal party staffer — has spent more than a year trying to forge ties with the Adani protest movement while urging activists to target Clive Palmer. Key points: An 'environmental organisation' Gatekeepers of Our Reef has spent more than a year cultivating contacts in …

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