geoffmanne · TEXXR

We already knew this, but before it was inferred from documents; now it's confirmed. I'm not even sure the WH denied it — I think they said it was justified. Regardless, it's a good reminder that, yeah, the gov't absolutely does (unconstitutionally) censor speech it doesn't like. [image]

2024-08-27 View on X

Wall Street Journal

In a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan, Mark Zuckerberg says he regrets Meta wasn't more outspoken about Biden administration pressure to restrict some COVID-19 content

Meta CEO also says he won't repeat 2020 efforts to fund local elections, which Republicans criticized as ‘Zuckerbucks’

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The expected hs happened. Now we'll have to see what happens to iRobot. It's not likely to be good. https://www.businesswire.com/ ... [image]

2024-01-30 View on X

CNBC

After Amazon ended its acquisition, iRobot plans to lay off 31% of its staff, or ~350 people, and says chair and CEO Colin Angle would step down; IRBT drops 5%+

Rohan Goswami / CNBC :

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And now we know. iRobot is in for restructuring, reduced R&D, job losses. I'm sure the scolds will be just as hard on the EU for these job losses as they were on Microsoft following the Activision merger. To be clear: The entirety of the blame for this is on the EU's... [image]

2024-01-30 View on X

CNBC

After Amazon ended its acquisition, iRobot plans to lay off 31% of its staff, or ~350 people, and says chair and CEO Colin Angle would step down; IRBT drops 5%+

Rohan Goswami / CNBC :

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And now we know. iRobot is in for restructuring, reduced R&D, job losses. I'm sure the scolds will be just as hard on the EU for these job losses as they were on Microsoft following the Activision merger. To be clear: The entirety of the blame for this is on the EU's... [image]

2024-01-29 View on X

CNBC

After Amazon ended its acquisition, iRobot plans to lay off 31% of its staff, or ~350 people, and says chair and CEO Colin Angle will step down; IRBT drops 15%+

- Amazon and iRobot mutually agreed to call off their planned acquisition, writing that there was “no path” to regulatory approval and sending iRobot shares down 15%.

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The expected hs happened. Now we'll have to see what happens to iRobot. It's not likely to be good. https://www.businesswire.com/ ... [image]

2024-01-29 View on X

CNBC

After Amazon ended its acquisition, iRobot plans to lay off 31% of its staff, or ~350 people, and says chair and CEO Colin Angle will step down; IRBT drops 15%+

- Amazon and iRobot mutually agreed to call off their planned acquisition, writing that there was “no path” to regulatory approval and sending iRobot shares down 15%.

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The expected hs happened. Now we'll have to see what happens to iRobot. It's not likely to be good. https://www.businesswire.com/ ... [image]

2024-01-29 View on X

Bloomberg

Amazon ends its $1.4B acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot after clashing with EU regulators and will pay a $94M fee; iRobot has $500M in net losses since 2021

- IRobot CEO steps down and company cuts workforce by 31% — Tech giant to pay $94 million to iRobot over deal termination

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And now we know. iRobot is in for restructuring, reduced R&D, job losses. I'm sure the scolds will be just as hard on the EU for these job losses as they were on Microsoft following the Activision merger. To be clear: The entirety of the blame for this is on the EU's... [image]

2024-01-29 View on X

Bloomberg

Amazon ends its $1.4B acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot after clashing with EU regulators and will pay a $94M fee; iRobot has $500M in net losses since 2021

- IRobot CEO steps down and company cuts workforce by 31% — Tech giant to pay $94 million to iRobot over deal termination

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Wow, the NYT's techno-panic game is strong. The essay itself is stupid (one sentence on AI democratizing access, but that's not as sexy as the rank speculation it will kill democracy). But the headline is just pure clickbait. cc ⁦@AdamThierer⁩ https://www.nytimes.com/...

2023-01-16 View on X

New York Times

AI tech like ChatGPT can be used by bad actors to lobby within democracies at incredible speed and scope, costing far less than troll farms like Russia's IRA

New York Times : Tweets: @intuitmachine , @willwilkinson , @pstasiatech , @nytopinion , @orinkerr , @arfung , and @geoffmanne Tweets: Carlos E. Perez / @intuitmachine : Is the sid...

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This is the key error. Just b/c the majority of content users post doesn't offend the community doesn't mean platforms can't exercise editorial discretion over *any* content. On this logic, the more cohesive the community, the better the editorial judgment, the less 1A protection https://twitter.com/...

2022-09-18 View on X

Bloomberg

A US federal appeals court upholds the Texas social media content moderation law, lifting an injunction that blocked it and remanding it back to the lower court

Justice Department Appeals Parts of Judge's Ruling on Documents Seized at Trump's Mar-a-Lago David McCabe / New York Times : A federal court clears the way for a Texas social media...

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This is the key error. Just b/c the majority of content users post doesn't offend the community doesn't mean platforms can't exercise editorial discretion over *any* content. On this logic, the more cohesive the community, the better the editorial judgment, the less 1A protection https://twitter.com/...

2022-09-17 View on X

Bloomberg

A US federal appeals court upholds the Texas social media content moderation law, lifting an injunction that blocked it and remanding it back to the lower court

A federal appeals court upheld the validity of a Texas social-media law that companies like Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc …

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