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Why Privacy will always be more impactful than Safety
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[ai-control] prevent robots.txt entries from becoming law | Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive, weighs in re: legally enforceable statements in robots.txt
2025/07/23
Civil Society: Cloudflare’s latest change {blocks, unblocks} network use by {people, software} that we {hate, love} – {yay, boo} this is {great, terrible}!
2025/07/02
Copium & Puerversiveness: when geeks aren’t as clever as they think they are
2025/02/06
In Case You Missed It: CNN on the Internet Archive being used to protect government climate sites | … “scraping” is dual-use, can also be good
2024/11/21
Zuckerman vs: Zuckerberg: why and how this is a battle of the public understanding of APIs, and why Zuckerman needs to lose and Meta needs to win
2024/05/09
Federal judge rules against Meta in data scraping case | …this is going to be a headache for Civil Society, if they think hard enough
2024/01/26
This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI | …I’m always torn whether to call these things “pettyware” or “get off my lawn-ware”
2024/01/15
Abuse Prevention is Tradecraft (Was: “Como is Infosec” by @doctorow) #ContentModeration Is Not #Infosec
2022/08/07
This is your occasional reminder that some self-styled “privacy” activists will unwisely demand ALL of 1/ software monoculture 2/ gratuitous interoperability 3/ scraping protection; these are bad ideas singularly, and worse when combined
2021/06/15