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The master’s voice | Radio | The Guardian # how much are we still talking about regulating Radio and TV, as opposed to Social Media?
“For five years all that people in the borderlands have had to do is to turn a switch and Nazi ideology from the German stations has flowed directly into their homes – it goes without saying that they all tuned into stations that they could understand! … As a counter to this, all we offered…
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PGP FAN [The Call of the Open Sidewalk] # this is fun
https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:index
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Please remember that illiberal countries *also* make use of democratically-sanctioned processes: “Interpol Has Been Weaponized By Governments Seeking To Hunt Down Critics And Activists | Techdirt”
Something, something, “…this ‘lawful access’ mechanism for end-to-end encrypted messages will only be used when necessary…” When governments straight up lie to Interpol, it can be difficult for Interpol’s vetting staff to disprove allegations or suss out the real reason for the notice. Things get past the filtering system all the time, like the case…
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I’m just waiting for the inevitable Senator, MP, Politician, or Apparatchik who assumes that all “meta data” is something to do with the former-Facebook, and wants to drag Zuck into some random data-protection proceedings
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the social media giant will change the name of its holding company to Meta, in a rebrand that comes as the company faces a series of public relations crises. Zuckerberg revealed the new name at Facebook’s annual AR/VR conference on Thursday, where he outlined the company’s virtual-reality vision for the…
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How To Spot And Critique Censorship Tropes In The Media’s Coverage Of Free Speech Controversies | Popehat
…it’s harder to detect the subtle pro-censorship assumptions and rhetorical devices that permeate media coverage of free speech controversies. In discussing our First Amendment rights, the media routinely begs the question — it adopts stock phrases and concepts that presume that censorship is desirable or constitutional, and then tries to pass the result off as…
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Three Generations of a Hackneyed Apologia for Censorship Are Enough | Popehat
People tend to cite the “fire in a crowded theater” quote for two reasons, both bolstered by Holmes’ fame. First, they trot out the Holmes quote for the proposition that not all speech is protected by the First Amendment. But this is not in dispute. Saying it is not an apt or persuasive argument for…
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It’s Time to Stop Using the ‘Fire in a Crowded Theater’ Quote – The Atlantic
Without fail, whenever a free speech controversy hits, someone will cite this phrase as proof of limits on the First Amendment. And whatever that controversy may be, “the law”–as some have curiously called it–can be interpreted to suggest that we should err on the side of censorship. Holmes’ quote has become a crutch for every…
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Why Falsely Claiming It’s Illegal To Shout Fire In A Crowded Theater Distorts Any Conversation About Online Speech | Techdirt
This post therefore intends to do two things: explain in greater detail why it is an incorrect statement of law, and also how incorrectly citing it as the law inherently poisons any discussion about regulating online speech by giving the idea of such regulation the appearance of more merit than the Constitution would actually permit.…
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Public Report – WhatsApp End-to-End Encrypted Backups Security Assessment – NCC Group Research # check out the final results!
Check out page 21: During the summer of 2021, WhatsApp engaged NCC Group’s Cryptography Services team to conduct an independent security assessment of its End-to-End Encrypted Backups project. End-to-End Encrypted Backups is an hardware security module (HSM) based key vault solution that aims to primarily support encrypted backup of WhatsApp user data. This assessment was…
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It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and @Verge are characterising “Car-Park USB Drops” as means of Whistleblower Entrapment. Because of course that’s a thing. Not.
Other Silicon Valley leakers have not been so lucky and often face more serious consequences for speaking out. Facebook itself has reportedly resorted to some fairly extreme tactics to crack down on leakers, including monitoring internet use and phone calls, randomly searching bags and vehicles, and leaving decoy USB drives out in the open as…
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Question: “What do you mean by ‘standalone end-to-end encryption’ and what does [Frances Haugen] mean?”
A journalist meant “what do [I] mean by ‘standalone’ end-to-end encryption”: Here’s my response: What is Standalone End-to-End Encryption? What are the alternatives? Some products [e.g. apps] aim to do one thing, and one thing well. They are unifunctional, and it’s easy to see where end-to-end-secure-message-passing plays its role. Signal is one: there are people,…