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Telegram will start moderating private chats after CEO’s arrest | …which they can only do because it’s not encrypted… | TheVerge
*** DON’T *** USE *** TELEGRAM *** … <waits for child safety activists to recommend “safe, unencrypted” telegram for children> … https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/5/24237254/telegram-pavel-durov-arrest-private-chats-moderation-policy-change
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Via @TheEconomist, Rick Jones of the Britain’s National Crime Agency (@NCA_UK) asks “Why does a 13-year-old need [end-to-end] encryption?” | …because everyone needs good security, Rick /HT @ShashJ
There’s a nice article in The Economist by Defence editor Shashank Joshi on “How Encrypted Messaging Apps Conquered The World” — though I’m not convinced they have, not yet. There’s more scope for end-to-end encrypted security by default and by no means is it ubiquitous technology. There’s a footnote: This article appeared in the International…
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Hey, does everybody remember the “monopolistic” & “anti-competitive” WhatsApp blocking of Telegram links in 2015?
No? Those link-blocks are a common tool at Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, although they’ve been controversial in the past. In 2010, Facebook faced criticism for blocking Pirate Bay links in the newly unveiled messaging system, after a long history of blocking similar apps on the News Feed. More recently, it drew criticism for blocking any…
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Perhaps Trump is the next Joyce?
“Riverrun, terrible river, floods, alligators, so many boats, past Eve and Adam’s — so religious, such good people — from swerve of shore to bend of bay, the best bay, the finest bay, brings us by a covfefe of recirculation back to Howth Castle — a great castle. I have a golf club there. So…
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The last few days I’ve listened to any number of podcasts regarding the Durov affair, but if I’d listened to only one I’d have wanted it to be The 9pm Edict by @Stilgherrian
My podcast-listening has taken a nosedive in the past 6 months – probably due to UK elections & the silly season – but Durov/Telegram in particular has led to a spike of talking heads in my feed. If I’d listened to only one of them I would want it to have been this one. I…
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Unpopular Opinion: new Bluesky “anti-toxicity” measures may have just carried us all a smidgen past “peak trust & safety”
An email and a blogpost from Bluesky announce their new anti-toxicity, anti-dunking (i.e. unwelcome quote-tweets) feature… and it’s not that it’s bad so much as it enables people (both “good”, and “bad”, whatever your personal taste) to curate their own echo-chambers to an extent that will certainly fragment communities more deeply into in-groups and out-groups.…
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The Bypass Strategy: Platforms, the Online Safety Act, and Future of Online Speech by @ellenejudson, @beakira & @digitalspeechX | SSRN
Yet another great white paper for your consideration, if a few weeks older (gosh, something must have happened in July to distract me) basically arguing that Ofcom are proposing that the fastest way to satisfy the Online Safety Act is to “chill legal speech”, i.e. to casually block anything that is potentially problematic. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4822405 via…
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Seabird Panopticon Breeding Success
With the innovative designs developed by a team of ornithologists, architects, ecologists and engineers, the structures have narrow ledges and vertical sides to mimic the cliffs on which the kittiwakes normally nest. Each ANS comprises an octagonal topside with capacity for around 500 breeding pairs of kittiwake supported above the water on a single monopile.…
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The AI-Copyright Trap: Essential Reading by @CraigCarys
I found this via Graham and it’s an awesome read (PDF) providing a much-needed and under-reported balancing voice for the popular (and: policymaker) debate surrounding AI, including the concrete issues which we refuse to acknowledge: …including observations which I foreshadowed:
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The secret inside One Million Checkboxes | eieio.games
This is an AMAZING and easy read, but it is also in a nutshell why all attempts by the state to forcibly constrain adolescent access to internet resources will inevitably fail: http://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/