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by sqdbps 9y ago
"As Google defends its contracts from internal dissent, its competitors have not been shy about publicizing their own work on defense projects. Amazon touts its image recognition work with the Department of Defense, and Microsoft has p
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by sqdbps 9y ago
Of course not. I'm referring to hints of victim blaming in the media: https://www.recode.net/2018/4/4/17196704/youtube-susan-wojci...
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Actually there are no expectations in the text of the first amendment but that is for another discussion. As for libel Google isn't the party that wrote that statement so they aren't liable for libel. The yelling "fire"
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I'm both actually.
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by sqdbps 9y ago
The media’s part in this: For whatever reason they started scouring youtube for “controversial” videos checking if they had ads (no matter how little views they had) then they would contact the advertisers for comment. Advertisers would ini
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by sqdbps 9y ago
Them's the breaks. Free speech is of loftier purpose than preserving the reputation of a hedgefund guy. It's also ironic and quite frankly terrifying that a news outlet would be lamenting the extensive free speech protections in t
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by sqdbps 9y ago
Companies use patents defensively and the Times is fully aware of that so this comes across as cynical clickbait. What I find interesting is that they keep quoting "consumer watchdog" an anti google organization turned anti techno
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Cambridge Analytica Knew How to Sell Cambridge Analytica(bloomberg.com)
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SimCity-like views using satellite imagery(medium.com)
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Satellite images from highly oblique angles are pretty mindblowing(arstechnica.com)
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Media vs. Facebook: This time it's personal(axios.com)
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Algorithms Can't Tell the Difference Between Bad Stuff and Reporting Bad Stuff(techdirt.com)
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Evidently we're at the outraged-explainer-porn stage of the media manufactured panic cycle. They are certainly using every part of that buffalo.
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4 Possibilities for the Future in a Post-SESTA World(techliberation.com)
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by sqdbps 9y ago
This is ridiculous. Google won two jury trials and the CAFC has no business deciding copyright cases.
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The Intellectual we deserve(currentaffairs.org)
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Is Big Business Really That Bad?(theatlantic.com)
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Generally what's good for US companies is good for the US and its people, I'm fine with a legislative response to the equifax breach, something along the line of mandated disclosure and penalties for lax security but we are in the
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by sqdbps 9y ago
The US must not introduce any laws detrimental to US companies especially when China is bolstering their tech firms (and stealing our IP) and the EU is trying everything short of altogether outlawing US tech companies out of their market.
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No one really thinks that the earth is flat it's just attention seeking behavior.
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Facebook Shouldn't Lock Data Away They Should Open Up to Those That Give Control(techdirt.com)
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Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Print ads were always backed by market research and data brokerage (buying lists of magazine subscribers, club memberships etc). As for storing data that is generated by their platform that is these companies' prerogative, it's th
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by sqdbps 9y ago
The Equifax thing didn't result in regulation and that was an actual scandal with real ramification not a pile-on by a press seeking to vilify an ad financed competitor. Funny how the Times is using silly metafilter vernacular now: &
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Campanies are made of people and their economic impact goes far beyond those they directly employ.
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It's not a direct democracy is it? these representatives are not blindly beholden to the whims of every Tom, Dick and Harry, they are also entrusted with the wellbeing of their constituency which ultimately means supporting existing an
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The state's interests are in the companies interests and vice versa, they share in prosperity. At a time when outsiders are going after them at least their home state should be relied upon not to follow suite. Whatever happened to &#x2
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Protect them from what? this is a partisan knee jerk reaction to goings on in DC. More importantly these actions are potentially detrimental to local companies the interests of which are intertwined with the state's.
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Patchwork state privacy and net neutrality regulations are cumbersome and ridiculous. Any such requirements should be debated and enacted on the federal level.
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A timeline of Apollo 11 conversations on the way to the moon(c82.net)
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