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by sqdbps 9y ago
It's not just a shield for Facebook and Google it's a shield for every website and app out there,and it's the greatest facilitator of free speech online. Not only did the headline conveniently omit that fact but the whole pie
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by sqdbps 9y ago
Hyenas all of 'em. One has to remember that these news orgs are in competition with Facebook and their coverage should be considered with that in mind. The eurocrats must be loving this, instead of scrutinizing their discriminatory tax
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Computer Chip Visionaries Win Turing Award(nytimes.com)
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"The move has left organizations offering services to the LGBT community unable to directly target their audiences." Some of the benefits of ad targeting that some want to restrict and regulate into oblivion.
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It may be beside the point but Psychographic Targeting is useless Pseudoscience(wired.com)
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Facebook Has Sins to Atone For, but 'Selling Data' to CA Is Not One of Them(techdirt.com)
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WTO and counter measures by affected countries.
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This needs to come with an asterix: profiles of the rise of the Chinese tech industry or its supposed move from "imitation to innovation” often forgo how Chinese companies are entirely protected from foreign competition in their domest
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by sqdbps 9y ago
That is ungrateful on his part. Much like #deleteuber this #deletefacebook tantrum is about Trump. Facebook was roundly lauded for helping Obama get elected.
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Allegedly. That aside: Ireland has a lower corporate tax rate than say france, so for example a soap company based in ireland doing business in france pays the irish corporate tax rate, it's not illegal and they're not part of the
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by sqdbps 9y ago
If you are going to benefit from the EU's consolidated market you can't complain about the benefits companies are extracting from that same arrangement. Not to mention that taxing specific companies that happen to come from the sa
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We have far lower tariffs and fewer business barriers than any other market.
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"...other member states like Ireland have opposed changes to a system in which they can use tax policy to attract businesses." They don't like it.
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by sqdbps 9y ago
"... that push has prompted complaints from American tech giants, which argue that they are being unfairly singled out by Brussels. European officials strongly deny those claims..." After so many targeted requirements, restriction
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EU's Mandatory Copyright Content Filter Is the Zombie That Just Never Dies(techdirt.com)
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That's neither here nor there, we're discussing China's actions in the context of free trade being the global norm and having established organization like the WTO to ensure a certain level of reciprocity. The larger point is
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by sqdbps 9y ago
What you're refrencing is a pactice by emerging or developing nations to protect what economists call "infant industries". None of that is applicable to China. They don't even brother with tariffs they prohibit all compe
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by sqdbps 9y ago
Journalists cannot keep profiling the rise of the Chinese tech industry or its supposed move from "imitation to innovation” without focusing on how Chinese companies are entirely protected from foreign competition in their domestic ma
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by sqdbps 9y ago
Will Broadcom still move their HQ to the US? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-qualcomm-m-a-broadcom/sin... And will Intel buy any of the companies involved? https://www.wsj.com/articles/inte
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by sqdbps 9y ago
More like 3 days ago: https://www.wsj.com/articles/intel-considers-possible-bid-fo...
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Even If the Troll Factory Abused Our Openness Against Us, We Shouldn't Close Up(techdirt.com)
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The Times tech columnist ‘unplugged’ from the internet, except he didn’t(cjr.org)
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China's Xi Wins Constitutional Backing for New Strongman Era(nytimes.com)
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Conspiracy theories and disagreeable speech are still speech and are still protected, I understand not wanting to run ads against that content but advocating to memory-hole it altogether is the morally wrong argument. People will choose wha
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That is a half assed attempt at revisionist history. Did all the conspiracy sites disappear (!) for you to cite google's own sales page!?
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Germany's Speech Laws Are a Raging Dumpster Fire of Censorial Stupidity(techdirt.com)
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Maybe that is true for a startup you just launched otherwise that doesn't scale (or make sense).
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Either everyone contributes and cares or no one does? I can't deal with hyperbole. Everyone has a job to do, and I'm sure that some sort of a bug tracker is attainable for everyone by now, it's not a company DNA thing, you al

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