2024-12-03
We may not be getting the lame duck Dark Brandon era we wanted but we're getting a rad goose FTC era: www.404media.co/ftc-bans-loc...
404 Media
FTC bans location data providers Gravy and subsidiary Venntel as well as Mobilewalla from using or selling data related to sensitive locations and more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced sweeping action against some of the most important companies in the location data industry on Tuesday …
2024-02-17
Kind of obsessed with Air Canada going with portraying its own chatbot as an incompetent employee they're unable to control as a defense in this lawsuit. https://www.cbc.ca/...
Vancouver Sun
Canada's Civil Resolution Tribunal rules that Air Canada must give a passenger a retroactive discount, which was erroneously promised by the airline's chatbot
Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support — https://arstechnica.com/... Jeffrey P. Bigham / @jbigham@hci.social : open season on “redteaming” these ann...
2022-11-29
Y'all, Apple is almost certainly threatening to pull Twitter because they've stopped following Apple's objectionable content policy. (Follow @AuschwitzMuseum which is tracking how suddenly reports of antisemitic content are being found “within policy” at Twitter.) https://twitter.com/...
MacRumors
Elon Musk says Apple threatened to “withhold” Twitter from App Store “but won't tell us why” and calls out Apple's lower Twitter ad spend and alleged censorship
Apple has cut back on its Twitter advertising, according to Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
Apple, for liability reasons, takes their content policies pretty seriously. When I worked for a social media company, our app once got pulled **WITHOUT NOTICE** because Apple reviewers found *two* violating pieces of content on an app with millions of videos.
MacRumors
Elon Musk says Apple threatened to “withhold” Twitter from App Store “but won't tell us why” and calls out Apple's lower Twitter ad spend and alleged censorship
Apple has cut back on its Twitter advertising, according to Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
2022-05-15
Wait. So the Republican agenda is to get rid of Section 230 (which would mean you can sue social media platforms for what people post on them) and then make it illegal for social media platforms to remove users' posts? I... WELL THEN. Hmm. https://twitter.com/...
Techdirt
Texas' content moderation law is clearly unconstitutional and forces social media services to allow a torrent of spam or face a deluge of frivolous litigation
So, I already had a quick post on the bizarre decision by the 5th Circuit to reinstate Texas' social media content moderation law …