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How is something called "MIT Technology Review" not MIT? This is how they describe themselves: > Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899,
by capableweb 5y ago
How is something called "MIT Technology Review" not MIT?
This is how they describe themselves:
> Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, analysis, reviews, interviews and live events explain the newest technologies and their commercial, social and political impacts.
Take a look at their website: https://www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/about/ https://www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/about/
The name "MIT" is literally all over the place. If it wasn't actually MIT, I'd expect MIT to sue these "Technology Review" people.
- drdeca 5y agoIt may be MIT legally or whatever, but calling it “MIT” could still be misleading when people expect “MIT” to refer to the research and education institution. Just because Facebook decided to rename itself (but not the website) “Meta” instead of “Facebook”, doesn’t mean I should respect that decision and call the organization Facebook by the name “Meta”. Similarly, but in kind of the opposite way, here.
- capableweb 5y agoIs it similarly misleading calling "Stripe Press" "Stripe"? Since people expect Stripe to just handle payments and related areas, while "Stripe Press" describes themselves the following way: > Stripe Press produces works about technological, economic, and scientific advancement I'd say, call things the way they want to be called. If you put "MIT" in your organizations name, then I'm gonna assume your organization is associated/related to MIT. If you're not related to MIT but your name is "MIT $ORGANIZATION", then I'd say that is misleading, not the other way around.