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Linked – A ‘fake news’ crackdown could follow Macron’s election win in France
Some in Silicon Valley breathed a sigh of relief as French voters overwhelmingly backed Emmanuel Macron as their next president over the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen. Whether that’s short-lived, however, depends on what Macron meant when he pledged to “regulate the internet” this month. Watch the people who talk about using legal means…
Linked – I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither should you.
Do I think it will reach this point? In some places, I think it will, yes. Will it get this bad in the US? I don’t know, but it will absolutely become much more common than it is. Have I ever been asked to unlock my phone and have my electronics searched when entering country?…
Linked – Ex-Facebook president Sean Parker: site made to exploit human ‘vulnerability’
It doesn’t matter what Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc, say about what their goals are, they are, and have always been, about getting us to stay on the site and see advertising. He explained that when Facebook was being developed the objective was: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as…
