Micah Schaffer

oh no! 😥

Viacom case wasn't really forgiveness though. It was vindication- we won it on summary judgement no less!

Pretty cool starter pack

go.bsky.app/3urfrLt

can we bring back Fucked Company too?

Nothing says "definitely old enough to be drinking" than makeshift krazy straws!

oh wow, I remember this. I don't think I was 21 yet, maybe I hid in @dethveggie.bsky.social's pocket or something.

And also release the hostages, right? Is eliminating Hamas implicit in your wish for safety for Jews? If so, it would be helpful to make that clear, because Hamas is explicitly opposed to that outcome.

CA's New Delete Act Is One of the World’s Most Powerful Privacy Laws A new law in California gives consumers real power to hit back at the companies buying and selling their data for the very first time. The Delete Act lets Californians force every data broker to delet...

Well done, California. This new law lets Californians force every data broker to delete the fruits of their data harvest with one, much needed single click.

#privacy #AIEthics #data

gizmodo.com/governor-new...

RIP

is it even possible to do content moderation *at scale* without vast financial resources though? yes, you can have healthy self-managed online communities without a lot of money, but probably not a Twitter replacement.

baby witches?

cc @eve6.bsky.social

Chinese Labs Are Selling Fentanyl Ingredients for Millions in Crypto And it's happening in plain sight.

Law enforcement has cracked down on dark web fentanyl for years. But new research found more than 90 Chinese firms selling ingredients to manufacture that deadly opioid on the open web. If those, 90% accepted crypto.

https://www.wired.com/story/fentanyl-ingredients-chinese-labs-cryptocurrency/

Perspective | Etsy promised shopping with a soul. Then the scammers came. Dropshipping and knockoffs threaten the whole point of a platform that was supposed to be for artists

Etsy surrendered to Alibaba sellers long ago, but it’s still weird to me that they aren’t not aggressive, given that it’s sorta their whole thing. Maybe it’s the equivalent of social platforms addicted to spam and fraud revenue.

A little legal realist/ law & tech inside-baseball thread
about what the Gonzalez/Taamneh cases

In my opinion, the narrative arc of these cases is more interesting than what was in the cases or the issues presented by the cases themselves.

Here's what basically happened:

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I doubt YouTube will take his bait. But seriously, declaring “war” against a service provider should probably get you kicked off that service, riiiight?

The idea behind strikes and warnings is to allow users to correct their behavior. It assumes good faith. Accounts with deliberate and systematic abuse need to just get terminated.

This was baked into the original policy principles at YouTube (before the growth folks blasted Alex Jones everywhere). Fostering free expression means curtailing chilling effects as well. Or put more simply, “no one wants to post cute cats and babies on the Hitler website.“

sure hmu

Ex-ByteDance Executive Accuses Company of ‘Lawlessness’ The former executive sued ByteDance, which owns TikTok, for wrongful termination and accused the company of lifting content from rivals and “supreme access” by the Chinese Communist Party.

👀 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/technology/tiktok-bytedance-lawsuit-china.html

I’ve been blocking a bunch of these too. Clearly there’s a lot of rate limiting needed that hasn’t been built yet.

I agree, we need to build in to clients defaults to services that help block / ban nazis. We should track those instances and make it, so clients by default use the block lists. Same with why we should have users opt-in to seeing adult content.

Only just now understanding his handle lol

Not to be confused with the BBS for Jewish kids that I got banned from when I was 12, called ALEPHnet

I’m going to tell my children this is EFnet

@dethveggie.bsky.social does anyone have a backup of Dem0nseed we can port over?

prettttty good

Even just a commitment to remove on platform, run of the mill hate speech would be reassuring at this point.

Just based on their identity? I don’t doubt that they are anti-Nazi, but I assume there was some behavior or speech that got them banned, right? Perhaps it fell under harassment or rudeness? My point is: have they removed polite Nazi hate speech? I hope they would, but there’s no policy, is there?

"I’ve also seen some people claim (falsely) that Bluesky would refuse to remove Nazis based on this" Are you sure? Have they said this? Just going off the CGs https://bsky.app/support/community-guidelines Harassment and slurs are out, but it does seem that hate speech (like nudity) is just labeled?