2021-03-18
So many of the reform efforts are only going to entrench the largest sites, rather than allow independent sites to gain a community of users. The web is not Facebook, and no one without broad knowledge of running small to medium sites should be trying to reform them. https://twitter.com/...
Techdirt
A new version of the PACT Act, a bipartisan Section 230 reform bill, remains convoluted and bloated with destructive ideas that will spawn entirely new problems
which would kill off our community. The only thing the rules would do is (a) cost me a ton of money and (b) allow trolls to complain to me. Why?
2020-10-28
“Tech” gets shoved together as a single interest group as if anything smaller than gargantuan-sized should ever trust that Facebook is going to act in their interest. https://twitter.com/...
Techdirt
In Mark Zuckerberg's prepared testimony for Wednesday's Senate hearing, he advocates for Congress to update Section 230 to “make sure it's working as intended”
This shouldn't be much of a surprise, unfortunately, but it appears that once again Facebook is the first to crack …
2020-10-23
This is great news and I would only nitpick it to say that WHO is granting *everyone* free use under a CC license! (The IGO “jurisdiction” port of BY-SA 3.0, since you asked.) https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
WHO grants Wikipedia free use of its published data, allowing it to be reposted widely in almost 200 languages and starting with COVID-19 information
making its work openly available for reuse, resharing, and importantly, for translations. #openaccess https://www.nytimes.com/... Anusha / @anushaa100 : So proud of this collaborat...