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A Tale of Two Internets - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Wikipedia Volunteers Av...
 ) Ben and I discuss whether we're entering the age of the Victorian internet, in which people expect a kind of moralistic virtue in terms of how you use the internet & what that might mean. [A Tale of Two Internets - Ctrl...](
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A Tale of Two Internets - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Wikipedia Volunteers Av...
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Kevin, when you put it that way... it sounds pretty bad. RE:
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Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social)
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ba...
(FWIW I had an inspiration for something built on ATprotocol four days ago, and got a prototype working last night and it's soooo cool. Needs some more work before I say more, and I wasn't going to talk about it yet, but I can't wait to share more about it...) RE:
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
Had missed this but looks like an admission that Elon's plan, to destroy independent developers building on ExTwitter by charging tens of thousands...
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Had missed this but looks like an admission that Elon's plan, to destroy independent developers building on ExTwitter by charging tens of thousands of dollars for API access, has failed, and they're switching over to usage based pricing. Of course, you can just build here in the Atmosphere for free https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreig3leeob2d75vbvr5up7swqhydoaxl64ra2ao4rw2h3epan2g6nly
The war on Christmas. RE:
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The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com)
Christmas decor suppliers and retailers are warning that tariffs will lead to higher prices and less inventory, as the bulk of the manufacturing an...
Great job, pushing Canada right into China's arms. RE:
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Bloomberg News (@bloomberg.com)
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney hopes to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit nex...
It's like a horror story written by... oh... wait... RE:
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Stephen King (@stephenking.bsky.social)
Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!
There are downsides to the current paradigm. The problem, though, is that in not taking the time to actually understand the root causes of the problems, you jumped on 230 as the key issue. It's not. There are plenty of reforms that could be made. Wrecking the internet is not a good one. RE:
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Brian Reed (@brihreed.bsky.social)
I don't believe or suggest Section 230 has only resulted in harms. I've been defensive of 230, personally, until pretty recently. There would be li...
I thought this was just yet another "don't scrape us" lawsuits, but holy shit, this is way, way dumber. Having looked at the details, this lawsuit by Reddit is one of the worst, anti-internet lawsuits I've seen in a while. It's so dumb. Will need to write about it... RE:
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The Verge (@theverge.com)
Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly ripping its content to feed AI https://buff.ly/AhEpGQU
What, the shift to "free markets and personal liberties" didn't boost the underlying business? RE:
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Jon Passantino (@passantino.bsky.social)
Some news: The Washington Post is preparing to cut newsroom staff even after several high profile exits. Bezos’ new opinion editor has privately ...