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“Spoiler: it is likely @X will be blocked soon in Brazil” | Thread by @1lucabelli
I wonder if it will be greeted by Civil Society as wise avoidance of control, or terrible avoidance of responsibility? Wait. It’s Musk. Who am I kidding? In case you have heard that @X has closed its office in Brazil, that Brazilian Supreme Court ( @STF_oficial ) ordered to imprison one of Twitter’s executives and
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Postbox closed because ‘snails eating mail’ | BBC News
A whole new meaning for ‘snailmail’ Links to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2nlym5y2jo
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Italian Ministry of Justice defines Rickrolling as a cybercrime, provides definition
Yes, really: https://www.giustizia.it/giustizia/en/mg_2_5_12_1.wp?contentId=GLM1144706#
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“How Find My Device protects your data” | Google turns Android devices into Airtag equivalents, I’m waiting for screams from privacy & safety activists
The announcements have gone out, and people – including me – are finding out about the new Google “Find My Device” network. I think this is a good idea but I’m absolutely sure that people are going to throw rocks at it (a) because “Google” & (b) because civil society have equally spent the last
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With @realDonaldTrump reposting fake images of @taylorSwift13 endorsement we should see restructuring of the AI debate: “who cares if it’s AI, look at the impact”
Personally I think that Taylor, if she’s going to endorse anyone at all, should leave it until early November for maximal impact; and in the meantime she should use some new Tennessee laws to sue anyone who spreads such fake endorsement, not to mention spark some “state regulation of speech” first-amendment lawsuits against the Tennessee
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“my son’s iPhone died after trying to play fortnite, PLEASE HELP!” | Oops…
Feel the EU-enabled freedom of a cohort of users previously convinced that nothing can ever go wrong, suddenly being exposed to the Windows-like risks of installing random code… https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/s/5RrWNMiPFb via:
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Has anyone yet seen explicit carve outs for surveillance of end-to-end encrypted messenger systems such as ChatControl?
As usual with authority “…we only want to facially recognise the bad people, not us…” — where of course anyone who is not-us is implicitly bad, or at very least a potential risk to us. The NFL is using facial-recognition technology this season for those credentialed for games, including for players, media and vendors. The
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The evolution of expert communities | @lcamtuf
I wonder if this is a general observation of civil society? > In almost every instance, [online communities of experts] followed the same trajectory — so today, I’d like to put forward a general lifecycle model for expert-led communities: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-evolution-of-expert-communities
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No, the government isn’t planning to introduce ID cards | @Psythor on the companies which are trying to become essential middlemen for the internet
Because rent seeking is always popular: https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/trust-but-verify
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Republicans Pump Brakes on KOSA After Realizing It Could Censor Them Too | Techdirt
…according to a new report in The Hill (which claims that there is still work going on behind the scenes to get KOSA moving again), the real reason is that the GOP has realized that the censorial portions of the bill could be used to suppress their own culture warrioring speech: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/16/republicans-pump-brakes-on-kosa-after-realizing-it-could-censor-them-too/
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A key part of California’s online safety law for kids is still on hold after appeals court ruling | The Verge
the state’s law “attempts to indirectly censor the material available to children online, by delegating the controversial question of what content may ‘harm to children’ to the companies themselves.” https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/16/24221907/california-age-appropriate-design-code-appeals-court-preliminary-injunction-netchoice
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Barnstorming thread by Ari Cohn on the fear-mongering that surrounds modern technology
Read the whole thing, linked at: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1824252178380316839.html We love, and I mean LOVE, to panic about stuff that there’s no evidence is actually happening in this country. You’d think we’d have learned by now.