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The End of the Open Internet | Foreign Affairs
Europe is following where China and Iran lead, America dithers: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/europe/end-open-internet
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“Signal President Meredith Whittaker threatens again to pull the encrypted messaging app out of the UK”
Signal will not compromise user privacy in order to satisfy the UK Government. They could withdraw from UK app-stores, but further: they could block any account with an associated “+44” phone number – me included. Such a “nuclear option” would beneficially put the burden of responsibility on the UK Gov’t without background narrative nitpicking about
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Some day Civil Society must grapple with whether platforms can differentiate markets on the basis of delivering Privacy & Security features
I blame DRM: the artificial market segmentation of DVDs being “region locked” led to much “free market” backlash from civil society; but now we have: …yet somehow the latter is “bad” and the former two are “good”? Can we please have some consistency?
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I designed a hat for the Age Verification community. We should ship a bunch of them to Westminster.
HT: a7ndrew
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Compare and Contrast: what is the likely consequence of such simultaneous positions?
I would argue that denying kids before 16 the opportunity to use social media would be denial of their access to political information necessary for them to be informed voters.
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Payment apps are watching what you say (feat. Rainey Reitman) – Lock and Code
Quote: “Even if they are well-intentioned, the financial [censorship] systems can end up pulling in a lot of people that are not the actual target… Sometimes we talk about this as dolphins in the fishing lines.” https://lock-and-code.captivate.fm/episode/payment-apps-are-watching-what-you-say-feat-rainey-reitman
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“You can tell by the way complaints or requests are worded that they have used AI technology to be able to ask for that information,” he said
“You say that as if it is a bad thing.” Lincolnshire County Council says AI behind rise in FOI requests – BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx21z6g2421o Via Owen’s thread at:
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Using AI to assist interpretation…
Prompt: Claude This is a genuinely tricky sentence because the rhetorical structure smuggles in a strong claim under the guise of modesty. Let me unpick it. The surface reading is appealingly libertarian/capabilities-flavoured: rather than paternalistic provision, foster agency. Very Sen-adjacent. But you’re right that “we” does a lot of unexamined work. **The core ambiguity:** “we”
