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Sen. Ron Wyden: Why I voted against the Kids Online Safety Act
Good article: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kids-online-safety-act-ron-wyden-rcna164576
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It was recently in vogue for academic digital-rights campaigners to demand that platforms (e.g. Facebook) NEVER update user experience without user consent; this HN article…
…this HackerNews article describes a different but not dissimilar chaos scenario that would be close to what would happen if those activists had gotten their way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41147787
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“Pump and Trump” | The Bitcoin community goes MAGA | The Verge
Best headline of the century. https://www.theverge.com/24211345/bitcoin-conference-2024-nashville-trump-maga-crypto
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The irony is that if this actually worked as described, @Nextdoor would be the richest platform on the planet
A lot of “Techlash” Civil Society seems hung up on the idea that (a) advertising is evil and (b) targeted (i.e. “relevant”) advertising is even moreso. Hence soundbite vitriol like this:
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Meet the teens lobbying against the Kids Online Safety Act | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/24210795/kosa-kids-online-safety-act-senate-teens-student-lobby
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Ding Dong KOSA’s Dead (For Now) | Techdirt
I think tonight I might have a very small celebratory dram. The news does not yet seem to have landed with the radical anti-privacy child safety activist community. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/01/ding-dong-kosas-dead-for-now/
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Modest Proposal: if “infinite scroll” is to be banned in the USA, they should also ban 24-hour news channels
For instance: Fox News would be obligated to show an entire Hallmark movie after every 90 minutes of news coverage.
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JD Vance’s Drunken College Photo Met With Shrugs | …as someone put it: “we finally have a test case”
Personally I’m in favour of people having ever more control over how they share information, but it will be a hard lesson for the power hungry techlash advocates that “nobody cares about the stupid harmless shit you did as a teenager” https://gizmodo.com/jd-vances-drunken-college-photo-met-with-shrugs-as-the-facebook-generation-runs-for-office-2000481212
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Nice little thread which (to paraphrase) thoroughly punctures the style & trend aspects of applying modern cryptography to software architecture
It’s worth reading linearly and some of the branches:
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The IWF, Thorn, & WeProtect are polling people’s opinions of a list of “horizon technologies” that may harm or help children; I offer sample responses that you may consider…
Via the tweet attached below, with my stake as a parent and as an engineering expert in the relevant technical fields, I responded to a questionnaire provided by the Internet Watch Foundation, Thorn, and the WeProtect Global Alliance. I found the questions to be interesting, not merely from the perspective that there were probably only
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Ferrari CEO Deepfake Shows Growing Threat of AI Scams Impersonating Executives | Bloomberg
How to simply and cheaply resist the increasing risk of tech-enabled fraud: better processes, better relationships, better employee awareness: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-26/ferrari-narrowly-dodges-deepfake-scam-simulating-deal-hungry-ceo Archived at: https://archive.ph/2024.07.28-114508/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-26/ferrari-narrowly-dodges-deepfake-scam-simulating-deal-hungry-ceo