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“#DigitalMarketsAct: Commission creates High-Level Group to provide advice and expertise in implementation” – Gosh, what will happen when the infeasible reality hits?
This High-Level Group may provide the Commission with advice and expertise to ensure that the DMA and other sectoral regulations applicable to gatekeepers are implemented in a coherent and complementary manner. It may also provide expertise in market investigations into emerging services and practices, to help ensure that the DMA is future-proof. The High-Level Group
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This thread by Phillip Hallam-Baker (@hallam) is a historical- and business-reality-checking response to the UK Minister for Geekery (@michelledonelan) and well worth a read re: who can foster / claim credit for fostering innovation #PHB
Unrolled Thread (my emphasis) The Web was created at CERN, it was the work of a multi-national team. The only other Brit on the CERN team was myself and I was an EU fellow, the EU paid my salary. The only government that took a direct interest in the Web early on was the US
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Andy Burrows has insinuating questions about WhatsApp Security; I don’t work for WhatsApp but I think I can answer most of them: The War On Regular Expressions
So Andy posted this thread, and I thought I would have a go at answering it here because (a) he blocks me for previous corrections I’ve issued to his posts, and (b) he’s restricted who can respond… https://twitter.com/_andyburrows/status/1637770139314561025 A few days ago @WhatsApp VP of Engineering @nagupta made the charge I was spreading ‘misinformation’ about
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“Mercury Shrugged” — how can end-to-end #encrypted messenger platforms threatening to “take their ball home” be “…a threat to ‘the nation state?’” #OnlineSafetyBill #MercuryShrugged @SignalApp @WhatsApp
[EDIT: Updated July 2023] The secure messenger platforms are promising to leave the UK. This will impact everyone, bad and good, politicians included. Over the past two weeks we have seen both Signal, and now WhatsApp [and now Apple] threaten to withdraw their service from the UK because (and let’s be precise about this) the
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Thought for the Day
Just off a phone call with someone who proposed that the modern-day problem with “free speech” as espoused by the likes of JS Mill et al — that speech, even odious speech, should be aired so that falsehood can be shot down and so that truth can be found — the problem apparently is that
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So I forgot that I am literally the person who in 2007 requested that Twitter add a “Reply” button
Back in the old days (2007) it was necessary to manually type-out: @whomever YOU ARE WRONG AND I HATE YOU! …in order to reply to a Tweet; replies were denoted by @ being the first character of a tweet. This also presages putting a dot — as in .@whomever — at the start of a
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The Execution of Mark Zuckerberg …
…or, possibly, of Nick Clegg Back in 2009 a TV drama was broadcast called The Execution of Gary Glitter: The Execution of Gary Glitter is a ninety-minute television drama, produced by Juniper Communications Limited and broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK, which follows an imaginary trial and execution by hanging of former glam rock
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Things from an 80s childhood which were actually awful…
This is very very true: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFESBcMj/
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Anyone who wants to understand how crowdsourcing works, simply needs to do a Google search for “{doing,pulling} a Trump”, which became suddenly popular yesterday.
Tons of people suddenly having exactly the same idea on how to describe the situation in Brazil. https://twitter.com/search?q=%22doing%20a%20trump%22%20OR%20%22pulling%20a%20trump%22&src=typed_query&f=live
