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Mike Godwin

@sfmnemonic
14 posts
2023-11-30
[Lunacy is a harsh mistress.] Unhinged Elon Musk Tells Advertisers: ‘Go F-ck Yourself’ https://www.rollingstone.com/ ... via @RollingStone
2023-11-30 View on X
CNBC

Elon Musk scoffs at advertisers leaving X because of his controversial posts: “If somebody's going to try to blackmail me with advertising ... go fuck yourself”

- In recent weeks, Musk has promoted and sometimes verbally endorsed what the White House called “antisemitic and racist hate” …

2023-07-04
The precise thing that Musk's imposed (and later amended) limit on reading tweets seems to have profoundly broken is Tweetdeck, in all versions. That matters a lot to the experience of those of us who use Tweetdeck, who find that it makes Twitter more curated and less annoying.
2023-07-04 View on X
@twittersupport

Twitter says that in 30 days users must pay for Blue to use TweetDeck, the new version of which supports full composer functionality, Spaces, polls, and more

We have just launched a new, improved version of TweetDeck. All users can continue to access their saved searches & workflows via https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ by selecting “Try t...

2023-01-27
‘And access to internal documents and tools has been granted to outside writers handpicked by Musk to support a narrative — disputed by former staffers — that before he stepped in, Twitter was servile to US intelligence and federal health agencies’ https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2023-01-27 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources describe how Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin has become the chief executor of Elon Musk's whims, even when they go against established protocols

On a day hundreds of Twitter Inc. employees were debating whether to resign, Ella Irwin showed up with a pep talk.

2023-01-26
TikTok tried being quiet and inoffensive. But the low-key approach hasn't worked. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-01-26 View on X
New York Times

Under increasing pressure in the US, ByteDance and TikTok shift their strategy for dealing with officials by going on the offense and speaking out publicly

Keeping its head down has not paid off for the company, which now faces regulatory pressure on many fronts.  So it is starting to speak out.

2021-03-04
(This is a big deal.) Google said it plans next year to stop using tracking technologies that uniquely identify web users as they move from site to site across the internet. The move could reshape the digital advertising industry. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
2021-03-04 View on X
The Verge

Google promises it will not build alternate identifiers to track users after phasing out third-party tracking cookies

Google says it wants a ‘privacy-first web’  —  Google is slowly phasing out third-party tracking cookies, and today, it's making it clear that it won't just replace …

2020-10-07
This Times is playing this as if it reflects a recent development, but the incoherence of the spectrum of theories informing the moral panic about Big Tech has been broadly evident for quite some time. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-10-07 View on X
CNBC

After a 16-month probe, House Democrats say Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, and Apple enjoy “monopoly power” and suggest antitrust changes that could break them up

- After a 16-month investigation into competitive practices at Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google …

(It turns out you have to have a coherent theory to reform Big Tech.) Big Tech Was Their Enemy, Until Partisanship Fractured the Battle Plans https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-10-07 View on X
CNBC

After a 16-month probe, House Democrats say Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, and Apple enjoy “monopoly power” and suggest antitrust changes that could break them up

- After a 16-month investigation into competitive practices at Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google …

This Times is playing this as if it reflects a recent development, but the incoherence of the spectrum of theories informing the moral panic about Big Tech has been broadly evident for quite some time. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-10-07 View on X
New York Times

Sources: US House report investigating Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook's power has been delayed as Democrats and Republicans are split on the remedies

Good morning!  This Wednesday, let's take a deep breath … Karl Bode / Techdirt : Stop Pretending The Trump GOP Genuinely Cares About Monopoly Power Reuters : U.S. House antitrust f...

(It turns out you have to have a coherent theory to reform Big Tech.) Big Tech Was Their Enemy, Until Partisanship Fractured the Battle Plans https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-10-07 View on X
New York Times

Sources: US House report investigating Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook's power has been delayed as Democrats and Republicans are split on the remedies

Good morning!  This Wednesday, let's take a deep breath … Karl Bode / Techdirt : Stop Pretending The Trump GOP Genuinely Cares About Monopoly Power Reuters : U.S. House antitrust f...

2020-08-22
A shoe drops. https://www.reuters.com/...
2020-08-22 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Alphabet considered participating in a group bid for TikTok but talks among companies in the nascent consortium ended recently

- Google parent would have used an investment unit for deal  — Talks among firms in nascent consortium said to end recently

2020-02-16
(My new article on Slate.) I've fought for a free internet for more than 30 years. Here's where I think we went wrong, and right. https://slate.com/... via @slate
2020-02-16 View on X
Slate

EFF's first staff lawyer reflects on how the debate around online speech has evolved and where he thinks the early internet activists got things right and wrong

I've fought for a free internet for 30 years.  Here's where I think we went wrong, and right. Tweets: @codinghorror , @jangles , @ahmed , @mpawlo , @sfmnemonic , @blakereid , @harr...

2020-02-15
(My new article on Slate.) I've fought for a free internet for more than 30 years. Here's where I think we went wrong, and right. https://slate.com/... via @slate
2020-02-15 View on X
Slate

EFF's first staff lawyer reflects on how the debate around online speech has evolved and where he thinks the early internet activists got things right and wrong

I've fought for a free internet for 30 years.  Here's where I think we went wrong, and right. Tweets: @sfmnemonic , @mpawlo , @paulmbaker , @blakereid , and @harrisonstephen Tweets...

2019-11-04
How the Internet Archive and Wikipedia are collaborating in ways that help preserve history and remediate fake news. https://www.wired.com/... via @wired
2019-11-04 View on X
Wired

Wikipedia partners with The Internet Archive to turn book citations into links to two-page previews, using Archive's scanned-in books as sources for ~130K links

The operator of the Wayback Machine allows Wikipedia's users to check citations from books as well as the web.

2018-01-08
“If you asked me whether intelligence agencies found this years ago, I would guess certainly yes.” http://www.wired.com/...
2018-01-08 View on X
cyber.wtf

Meltdown researcher Anders Fogh explains how multiple researchers discovered the same vulnerabilities in modern CPUs at around the same time