2/ Link to the full report:
linguasinica.substack.com/p/free_china...

@chinamediaproject.bsky.social

4/ The real freedom comes when you own these definitions. When things don't go as planned (and they won't), you'll have clarity instead of chaos.

Draw that line in the sand early. How are you defining failure in your journey? How will you move forward from what you started?

3/ But neither success nor failure is final. They're just chapters in your story. But you need to write these chapters yourself — no one else will give you permission to succeed OR fail.

2/ It's a recurring theme that I see from a lot of media entrepreneurs: a lack of clear boundaries around how far they could take their startups.

I can’t tell if a figurative gun was put to his head, or if he did this out of ambition and opportunity.

6/ This is staggering.

www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

5/ And it gets worse: Meta will fight any government when it comes to national hate speech laws. “We’re going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more,” said Zuckerberg.

4/ Meta now allows you to call gay people mentally ill. Or to say that Chinese people brought Covid everywhere. Or that women can’t get certain jobs because of their gender.

3/ My worry is not so much about the loss of fact-checking newsrooms around the world, but something bigger in what Zuckerberg called a “cultural tipping point” toward “speech”:

2/ These fact-checking efforts were also unscaleable — social media news cycles are short and fast, making it difficult for any journalist to debunk lies as quickly as they appear. In the age of engagement-optimized generated AI content, this is an impossible fight.

I would like to take credit for that but sorry unfortunately you've got the wrong Splice -- those are the other guys. 😜

Civic duty doesn't matter unless there's a law compelling them to act. :(

Should have been written by A1!