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🔗 linkblog: In The End, Trump Will Screw Over Anyone: Including His ‘Own’ Social Media Company | Techdirt'
Welp, all the more reason to leave birdsite behind.
🔗 linkblog: As Elon Fires More Trust & Safety Staff, Twitter’s Moderation Efforts Fall Apart | Techdirt'
Repeat after me: Content moderation is a good thing.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Tries (Badly) To Defend The Banning Of Journalists As Twitter Starts Blocking Links & Mentions Of Mastodon | Techdirt'
I’ve posted a bunch of articles about this already, but Masnick’s take is super helpful.
🔗 linkblog: Elon’s Commitment To Free Speech Rapidly Replaced By His Commitment To Blatant Hypocrisy: Bans The JoinMastodon Account | Techdirt'
Musk is getting pettier and more self-centered.
🔗 linkblog: Elon’s Promise Not To Ban Account Tracking His Jet Didn’t Last Very Long At All; Also Bans Guy’s Personal Account | Techdirt'
How does such an already bad story get so much worse over the course of a single day?
🔗 linkblog: Before Musk Riled Everyone Up With Misleading Twitter Files About ‘Shadowbanning,’ Musk Used The Tool To Hide Account Tracking His Plane | Techdirt'
If I could pick one story to demonstrate that Musk’s Twitter tenure has been blundering and inconsistent…
🔗 linkblog: Elon Admits His Content Moderation Council Was Always A Sham To Keep Advertisers On The Site | Techdirt'
I’m glad I began reading Techdirt before this whole mess started… Masnick’s persective has been a helpful guide.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk’s First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter’s Strong Free Speech Stance | Techdirt'
Interesting read here from Masnick. I’m not familiar with everything he writes about here, but I always appreciate his perspective.
🔗 linkblog: Right Wingers ‘Fight’ AT&T By Embracing ‘Anti-Woke’ Cell Carrier…That’s Just Rebranded AT&T | Techdirt'
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
🔗 linkblog: Ye’s ‘Buyout’ Of Parler Looks Very Much Like A Failed Company Taking Advantage Of Troubled Rich Guy | Techdirt'
Insightful speculation by Masnick. Ye’s said some horrible things recently, but that doesn’t mean Parlement can’t be taking advantage of him.
🔗 linkblog: Arizona GOP Secretary Of State Candidate Insists ‘Deep State’ Google Is Blocking His Website; Turns Out He Requested It Not Be Indexed | Techdirt'
Politicians need to better understand the internet. This is just as dumb (and perhaps more devious) than the nonsense the governor of Missouri was up to.
🔗 linkblog: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/09/26/subreddit-discriminates-against-anyone-who-doesnt-call-texas-gov'
This is juvenile enough that I feel guilty finding it funny, but it’s a good demonstration of the problems with this backlash against content moderation.
🔗 linkblog: The Most Famous Blunder Of Content Moderation: Do NOT Quote The Princess Bride | Techdirt'
Great movie, great example of the difficulty of content moderation.
🔗 linkblog: New Book Says NSA Pressured GCHQ To Shut Down Publication Of Snowden Leaks By UK Journalists | Techdirt'
Americans should be more worried about the NSA than they are.
🔗 linkblog: The Public Paid For Moderna’s mRNA Vaccine Tech; The Fact That Moderna Is Suing Over The Patent Is A Travesty | Techdirt'
Intellectual property is a social justice issue.
🔗 linkblog: Twitter Removes Florida Political Candidate Advocating Shooting Federal Agents; If DeSantis Won His Lawsuit, Twitter Would Need To Leave It Up | Techdirt'
I appreciate the way that Masnick uses examples from the news to call out how dumb some of these laws are.
🔗 linkblog: Gab Users Somehow Astounded To Discover Gab Will Comply With FBI Requests For User Information | Techdirt'
I read Torba’s blog post last week but hadn’t been aware of the context. Interesting read.
🔗 linkblog: Google Maps Is Misleading Users Searching For Abortion Clinics… And The GOP Is Threatening The Company If It Fixes That | Techdirt'
Masnick makes two good points here: The GOP seems to only care about content moderation in self-serving ways, but also we should be wary of political mandates for content moderation.
🔗 linkblog: Absolutely Terrible Textbook Publishing Giant Pearson Wants To Make Everything Even Worse With NFTs | Techdirt'
Masnick’s critiques of Pearson here are better than anything I could have written.
🔗 linkblog: Study Says Trump’s Truth Social Is Much More Aggressive, And Much More Arbitrary, In Moderating Content | Techdirt'
Unsurprising, but still a valuable read.
🔗 linkblog: Facebook Is So Sure Its Erroneous Blocking Of Music Is Right, There’s No Option To Say It’s Wrong | Techdirt'
Intellectual property is important, but copyright filters are an absolute mess.
🔗 linkblog: Arizona Makes It Illegal To Record Cops From Less Than Eight Feet Away | Techdirt'
It’s funny how conditional the GOP’s concerns about free speech are. That’s not to say that free speech isn’t a complicated topic to be weighed in conjunction with other concerns—it absolutely is. But if a party wants to use a simplistic view of free speech as a rallying cry, stunts like this show how just how simplistic that view is.
🔗 linkblog: Ubisoft Teaches Customers They Don’t Own All That DLC They ‘Bought’ | Techdirt'
Ugh. We “buy” too many things this way.