Micah Schaffer
@micahsch.bsky.social
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November 23, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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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...
#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...
gizmodo.com
October 13, 2023 at 4:16 PM
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...
#privacy #AIEthics #data
gizmodo.com/governor-new...
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.
i 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.
My guess is that Bluesky’s response to this is to say “guess what, we’re federated now! Start your own instance and make your own moderation rules!” And then this place hollows out as everyone goes in search of a better platform.
July 14, 2023 at 9:34 PM
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.
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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/
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.
www.wired.com
May 23, 2023 at 7:17 PM
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/
https://www.wired.com/story/fentanyl-ingredients-chinese-labs-cryptocurrency/
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
wapo.st
May 23, 2023 at 2:21 PM
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.
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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:
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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/
May 18, 2023 at 4:44 PM
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/
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.
Fascists tend to get really upset when social media platforms don't just let them do their fascist stuff in peace.
May 18, 2023 at 9:12 AM
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.
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.“
Always a lot of concern about free speech around fascists- and I think it’s important to talk about how fascists actually make it much much more difficult to have free conversation and speech. By protecting their speech we are limiting so much other speech.
May 15, 2023 at 11:56 PM
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.“
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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.
The 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.
May 8, 2023 at 4:11 AM
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.
@dethveggie.bsky.social does anyone have a backup of Dem0nseed we can port over?
May 6, 2023 at 4:04 AM
@dethveggie.bsky.social does anyone have a backup of Dem0nseed we can port over?
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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…)
May 1, 2023 at 2:05 AM
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.
April 29, 2023 at 6:11 PM
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.