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by jdp23 3y ago
Thanks ... but what does that do to the ranking? Tnere were quite a few upvotes on the newer submission that don't seem to have transferred over.
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by jdp23 3y ago
Here's a couple of excerpts highlighting way many LGBTQ+ people see Libs of TikTok as a threat "After gaining a large Twitter following in the spring as she baselessly accused LGBTQ teachers of being pedophiles and “groomers,” Rai
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Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse(privacy.thenexus.today)
197 points by jdp23 3y ago|415 comments
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by jdp23 4y ago
Back in the day Reed told me that he added the leak detection to Purify v1 towards the end of the dev cycle and was very surprised that it wound up being one of their biggest selling points
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by jdp23 4y ago
Mastodon lead developer has resisted including some of the glitch-soc improvements since 2017 -- like "local-only posts", which are valuable both from a privacy and anti-harassment (and are also in Hometown).
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by jdp23 4y ago
Nope. There's been abuse in text-only environments online since forever. And lots of people have left (or rarely post on) HN because of complaints about the enviroment here.
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by jdp23 4y ago
Is there a way to block Javascript? I couldn't find it on a quick tour through the preferences.
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by jdp23 4y ago
None yet. Big tech companies have pushed various versions of the Bad Washington Privacy Act, which is weaker than CCPA. In 2021 and 2022, civil liberties, civil rights, and immigrant rights groups have supported the People's Privacy A
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by jdp23 4y ago
Yep. We've fought them off here in Washington ... but they and Amazon just took it to other, more pliable states. Todd Feathers and Albert Ng had a very good article on this in The Markup a few months ago https://themarkup
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by jdp23 4y ago
There's been some good reporting on the lobbying on ADPPA What Microsoft, IBM and others won as the privacy bill evolved - https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/policy/cloud-enterprise... Privacy bill triggers
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by jdp23 4y ago
It's not clear that ADPPA will move forward. The current version preempts California's CCPA/CPRA legislation, and (big surprise) California doesn't like that. But, that's far from the only issue with it. Here's
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by jdp23 4y ago
Agreed that this has been going on for years and Congress has done nothing to date. But ... The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, sponsored by Senators Wyden and Paul, has a hearing tomorrow morning -- and may actually have decent chan
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Substack is laying off 14% of its staff(nytimes.com)
131 points by jdp23 4y ago|191 comments
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Sequoia, Y Combinator, AZ16 Under Scrutiny in Congress over ‘Tech Bro’ Culture(forbes.com)
37 points by jdp23 4y ago|30 comments
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by jdp23 5y ago
Exactly right. The tech and advertising industries and their allies want weak federal regulations (with no private right of action, and lots of exemptions) that pre-empt stronger state laws. One way to get there is to get multiple states t
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by jdp23 5y ago
Yeah really. In today's polarized political climate, criticizing Facebook is one of the very few things most people agree on! OK, enough unity, now let's get back to partisan mud-slinging :)
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Microsoft Shareholder Resolutions – Facial Recognition, Pay Equity, and More(jedii.tech)
1 points by jdp23 5y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 5y ago
It's only one data point, but here in Washington state grassroots organizers have stopped Amazon (and Microsoft) from passing the Bad Washington Privacy Act three years in a row now. The key has been the Tech Equity Coalition, a loose
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by jdp23 6y ago
That trick never works!
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by jdp23 6y ago
Excellent point!
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by jdp23 6y ago
Many states have requirements that ballots must be received by election day.
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Critique of 2018 Turing Award for Drs. Bengio and Hinton and LeCun(people.idsia.ch)
4 points by jdp23 6y ago|1 comments
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by jdp23 6y ago
Stay-Home Orders: Your Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic (ACLU-Texas): https://www.aclutx.org/en/know-your-rights/stay-home-orders-... How to Think About the Right to Privacy and Using Location Data to Fight COV
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by jdp23 7y ago
Good news: due to strong pushback, they've dropped this proposal, and just did a straightforward short-term extension -- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/senate-short-term-e...
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Lessons from WT:Social(medium.com)
2 points by jdp23 7y ago|0 comments
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WT: Social will have to pick a side(medium.com)
1 points by jdp23 7y ago|0 comments
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Why is an intellectual dark web site at the top of my feed? Thoughts on WTSocial(medium.com)
2 points by jdp23 7y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 7y ago
Great point. Really impressed with how you've approached it!
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by jdp23 8y ago
Great perspective ... and, very impressive work!
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by jdp23 8y ago
Both are true simultaneously: * professional security is needed, and this is what it costs * the cost is more of a barrier to smaller companies (and hence provides an advantage to larger companies) It seems like an inherent tension; I'

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