Below are posts associated with the “Mike Masnick” tag.
🔗 linkblog: The Most Famous Blunder Of Content Moderation: Do NOT Quote The Princess Bride | Techdirt'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: 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: 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: Musk’s Attempt To Get Out Of The Twitter Deal Proceeding Exactly As Predicted; What Happens Next? | Techdirt'
I always appreciate Masnick’s going into the legal details that are above my head. Techdirt has proven to be one of the most helpful sources for understanding this fiasco.
🔗 linkblog: Impossibility Theorem Strikes Again: YouTube Deletes January 6th Committee Video | Techdirt'
Good example here of how content moderation can absolutely overreach. Arguments that platforms shouldn’t moderate are nonsense, but I appreciate Masnick’s emphasis on the need to be very careful about how we moderate.
🔗 linkblog: The Internet Can Still Be Small And Nice, But It’s On All Of Us To Make That Work | Techdirt'
Some good thoughts by Masnick on a good op-ed by Wheaton.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk Demonstrates How Little He Understands About Content Moderation | Techdirt'
I have only been reading Techdirt for a short amount of time, but I increasingly appreciate Masnick’s perspectives on issues like this.