Fascinated by this article for so many reasons. First, it’s a great example of meaningful practices in online spaces; second, it brings it back to the need for more, smaller platforms.

Reading about Mike Lee’s attempts to interfere with the election reminds me of the missionary companion who dreamed of rising high enough in the FBI to be ready to help Salt Lake carry out a coup if needed.

I have only been reading Techdirt for a short amount of time, but I increasingly appreciate Masnick’s perspectives on issues like this.

Worrying stuff out of Utah.

Content moderation is a necessity, and Musk’s take here is wildly irresponsible.

Losing dumb TVs is not an acceptable option.

This story just keeps getting worse.

Please be skeptical of anyone who describes platform content moderation as censorship.

Seems to me that folks truly concerned about the integrity of women’s sports would have more to say about this.

This matches rhetoric I’m reading while doing research on Gab. We need respectable conservative movements in the U.S., but our contemporary mainstream right is flirting with these ideas instead of denouncing them. It’s troubling

Faut pas oublier ces liens quand-même.

Litmus tests like this are making me even more worried about the future.

Wish that I’d been paying better attention to this legislation. Libraries are pillars of our communities and ought to retain partisan independence.

I think today demonstrates both the superority of France’s two-round presidential elections to U.S. first-past-the-post BUT ALSO the inferiority of both compared to ranked-choice voting.

Faut pas transformer l’Ukraine un héros irréprochable.

Insightful piece on trolling and feeding trolls.

All platforms moderate content, most content moderation isn’t censorship.

If I can help it, I will never buy a smart TV. I appreciate the suggestion to consider a monitor as a dumb TV.

Weaponization of copyright filters is awful, and it’s not even the worst thing about this story.

Keeping an eye on France’s elections in April and then Idaho’s in May, I guess.

Frustrating to see steps that feel like progress seem to shore up the tech giants I hoped were being kept in check.

I have been meaning to read this for quite some time, as it is the first volume in the most recent official history of Community of Christ. I’m also looking forward to the next two volumes, since they cover history that I am not familiar with, but it was especially interesting to read a Community of Christ perspective on the 1830-1844 era.

I appreciated the frankness and openness of the volume—it’s impossible to imagine an LDS version of this book taking the same approach. As open as the Saints books are compared to previous takes on LDS history, they don’t compare to this. My only complain about the book is the sometimes-stilted writing and the seeming tangents—ti was sometimes hard to tell why particular subjects got the focus they did.

Worries about this picking up. General Assembly took steps in a bad direction this session, but they could go further next time.

GOP needs to do more about MTG.

Not that I was inclined to believe Russian cries of fake news anyway, but I still appreciate Bellingcat on the case.