Well done, California. This new law lets Californians force every data broker to delete the fruits of their data harvest with one, much needed single click. #privacy #AIEthics #data gizmodo.com/governor-new...
CA's New Delete Act Is One of the World’s Most Powerful Privacy Laws
A new law in California gives consumers real power to hit back at the companies buying and selling their data for the very first time. The Delete Act lets Californians force every data broker to delet...
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is it even possible to do content moderation *at scale* without vast financial resources though? yes, you can have healthy self-managed online communities without a lot of money, but probably not a Twitter replacement.
dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 3y agoi get why people want anti-racism hardcoded. it should be that way. but i don’t get why people think badly of having the power to write & enforce their own community rules. if this experience says anything, we can’t trust profit-minded companies, no matter how nice they seem, to do the right thing.
Law enforcement has cracked down on dark web fentanyl for years. But new research found more than 90 Chinese firms selling ingredients to manufacture that deadly opioid on the open web. If those, 90% accepted crypto. https://www.wired.com/story/fentanyl-ingredients-chinese-labs-cryptocurrency/
Chinese Labs Are Selling Fentanyl Ingredients for Millions in Crypto
And it's happening in plain sight.
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Etsy surrendered to Alibaba sellers long ago, but it’s still weird to me that they aren’t not aggressive, given that it’s sorta their whole thing. Maybe it’s the equivalent of social platforms addicted to spam and fraud revenue.
Perspective | Etsy promised shopping with a soul. Then the scammers came.
Dropshipping and knockoffs threaten the whole point of a platform that was supposed to be for artists
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A little legal realist/ law & tech inside-baseball thread about what the Gonzalez/Taamneh cases In my opinion, the narrative arc of these cases is more interesting than what was in the cases or the issues presented by the cases themselves. Here's what basically happened: 1/
The idea behind strikes and warnings is to allow users to correct their behavior. It assumes good faith. Accounts with deliberate and systematic abuse need to just get terminated.
TheMarco@handle.invalid · 3y agoFascists tend to get really upset when social media platforms don't just let them do their fascist stuff in peace.
This was baked into the original policy principles at YouTube (before the growth folks blasted Alex Jones everywhere). Fostering free expression means curtailing chilling effects as well. Or put more simply, “no one wants to post cute cats and babies on the Hitler website.“
👀 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/technology/tiktok-bytedance-lawsuit-china.html
Ex-ByteDance Executive Accuses Company of ‘Lawlessness’
The former executive sued ByteDance, which owns TikTok, for wrongful termination and accused the company of lifting content from rivals and “supreme access” by the Chinese Communist Party.
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I agree, we need to build in to clients defaults to services that help block / ban nazis. We should track those instances and make it, so clients by default use the block lists. Same with why we should have users opt-in to seeing adult content.
Yoel Roth@yoyoel.com · 3y agoThe best I can come up with - for a lot of things - are great defaults. One option could be opt-in inclusion of accounts from known-nazi (or otherwise harmful) instances across various parts of the client, rather than opt-out/block.
@dethveggie.bsky.social does anyone have a backup of Dem0nseed we can port over?
Is there some internet law for how long it takes or how big an online community must become until everyone involved wants to discuss/debate community norms? (Nostalgic feels about the September that never ended…)
Classic new app vibes. I see Bluesky had opted into the “launch with age gate that isn’t COPPA compliant” rite of passage. Love the energy, looking forward to the remediation.
