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The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that | Quinn Slobodian
The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that | Quinn Slobodian
The convergence of money and politics isn’t new. What’s different is the Silicon Valley right’s hostility to the nation state
* Quinn Slobodian is author of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
In the last…
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that | Quinn Slobodian
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Update: After this blog post was written, we learned Meta revised its public "Hateful Conduct" policy in ways EFF finds concerning. We are analyzing these changes, which this blog post does not address.
January 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Update: After this blog post was written, we learned Meta revised its public "Hateful Conduct" policy in ways EFF finds concerning. We are analyzing these changes, which this blog post does not address.
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The Guardian view on content moderation: Meta did far too little. Now it wants to do even less | Editorial
The Guardian view on content moderation: Meta did far too little. Now it wants to do even less | Editorial
Loosening already limited safeguards on social media platforms is not just damaging. It could ultimately prove deadly
Mark Zuckerberg famously boasted that Facebook had a saying: “Move fast and break things”. His product has not just destroyed industry…
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The Guardian view on content moderation: Meta did far too little. Now it wants to do even less | Editorial
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“If the media covered climate change the way it covers Trump, and Trump the way it covers climate change, we'd have neither.”
- Peter Kalmus
- Peter Kalmus
April 27, 2024 at 10:27 AM
“If the media covered climate change the way it covers Trump, and Trump the way it covers climate change, we'd have neither.”
- Peter Kalmus
- Peter Kalmus
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the most interesting part of the story so far imo is how much corruption at the Court has been exposed with a relatively small amount of effort
i said this on slate’s amicus podcast but i really think we are only scratching the surface of the entanglement between certain members of the court and assorted billionaires and influence peddlers
NEW NYT story on another club of billionaires Clarence Thomas was welcomed into: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/clarence-thomas-horatio-alger-association.html
July 9, 2023 at 3:47 PM
the most interesting part of the story so far imo is how much corruption at the Court has been exposed with a relatively small amount of effort