https://web.archive.org/web/20241111010722/https://thetech.com/2024/11/07/daniela-rus-research-must-end

archive.org link to the “the tech” opinion piece that was redacted.

Instagram has a shit algorithm, yt shorts are generally just worse forms of yt or reposts from ticktok/insta. People are willing to tolerate a lot of data selling already, so why should they care that it’s being shared with the CCP?

if the (US and many others) governments weren’t run by fascists I might agree, but I know that politics change and facist, homophobic, racists are always going to have a chance to be elected in a democratic (republic) system.

the main problem I have with the government doing this is that they would be the ones to define who the minoritys are. If I remember correctly the US consider veterans to be a protected class, what if a government decided to extend minority status to those that themselves (as part of their “culture”) codified intolerance to existing protected minorities (such as certain religions with respect to homosexuality)?

the law shouldn’t dictate this because that would require rigid definitions of misinformation and minorities. are Nazis minorities? What about Israelis? Or Palestinians?

is spreading a rumor misinformation? What if it is later found out to be true?

how would you ban any internet service without firewalls or routing? DNS bans are trivial to bypass and maybe I’m not thinking hard enough but I’m out of practical ways to prevent access to Twitter or meta.

Ukraine and other countries where fixed infrastructure is failing iirc benefit from having low cost Internet access.

usernames are the only form of attribution that makes sense and has ever been used (aside from email, which is again practically a username)

probably was the internal id number, but still scummy behaviour.

some idiots think personal freedom is overrated and like to imagine the web browser as a mysterious black box that “just works”.

Thankfully all but the shitty national ones can be turned off on most Android phones.

can/should the protocol used to deliver emergency alerts support images/video, if so what formats and size limits?

sounds like one of the few cases where more restrictions on browser extensions would be a good thing. Or at least letting users prevent extensions from modifying cookies by default.

Shoving basic settings under “accessibility” is not intuitive in the slightest.

yay

will ti 84 calculators have to follow this?

openrc exists

*it can produce data identical to data that has been copyrighted before

it at least allows larger files than mms* and has reactions.

*size may vary significantly with MMS and is rarely if ever communicated.

actually it’s white