😮 Wow. Had checked for your name and was kind of wondering!

Notice in the piece that Meta would love for the focus to be entirely on children (and solved with age verification) -- where in reality, the design of these bots is wronging people of all ages

Yes!!! I stand by my point / comparison here:

I agree with this too! And considered including initially, but didn't b/c their core impact /value for me was not the usual, "i wish [dominant class] knew/understood this!!!" (though yes) but "wow, this unlocked something inside", so a specific empowering for those who more need it, vs general info

"Burned After Reading: Endless Mayfly’s Ephemeral Disinformation Campaign" citizenlab.ca/2019/05/burn... (long enough ago that all the coverage is back in that place formerly known as twitter: xcancel.com/gabriellelim... / @gabriellelim.bsky.social )

"HKLEAKS: Doxxing Explained Role of Online Harassment Tactics to Repress 2019 Hong Kong Protests" citizenlab.ca/2023/07/hkle...

"JUICYJAM: How Thai Authorities Use Online Doxxing to Suppress Dissent": citizenlab.ca/2025/04/how-...

"We Say You Want a Revolution: PRISONBREAK – An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime": citizenlab.ca/2025/10/ai-e...

“It is unacceptable that the Liberal government continues to use the excuse of protecting ‘national security’ to justify laws that will make people across Canada less safe, that threaten our privacy, that erode protections for migrants and refugees, and that will force people... 4/

As a member of the network of orgs holding today’s news conference, ICLMG supports the ongoing call to withdraw Bill C-12, which will significantly undermine the Charter rights & civil liberties of people across Canada, and especially migrants and refugees already facing threats to their safety. 3/

10/ Instead of centering men who missed the boat (and still don't seem to get it), let's lift up the work of Paulina Borsook, who saw it all very clearly and tried to warn us 25 years ago.

Someone should do a profile of her very interesting life. And hey, let's drop some cash into her GoFundme!

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive.

Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:

www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

7/ During a decade in which the USA's favorite “tech critics” were busy shining the shoes of people like Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, Borsook saw very clearly where things were headed. Because these things were obvious by the late 90s, at least to journalists like Borsook.

6/ Borsook described “paranoid” anti-government rantings and a tech libertarian culture in which the “gestalt is of testosterone-poisoned guys with chips on their shoulders and too much time on their hands.”

And soon, these guys would morph into multi-billionaires...

4/ Borsook divided the tech ”libertarians” into two main types: the Ravers and the Gilders.

The Ravers are the ones who go to Burning Man and project countercultural ideas. The Gilders are the Peter Thiel types, more overtly focused on money and power.

But they are birds of a feather.

3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!