We hear a lot about how social media platforms should do a better job of content moderation, and keep us from having to see things we don’t want to see. Have we considered whether anyone actually wants that job? Techdirt’s Mike Masnick makes an interesting point in a recent article – Before Demanding Internet Companies…
I’m not a lawyer. However, I’d agree with this assessment of the First Amendment, social media platforms are actually free to censor as much, as little, and with as much bias as they want, and this latest ruling on a public access cable station seems to confirm that. “So, uh, yeah. If you’re arguing that…
Over the years of my career in technology and training, I’ve always held two beliefs about how people are measured when it comes to their use of the technology they have at work. The first, of course, is that “you get what you measure”. So, for example, if you measure your support people by the…
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I’m aware that these tools exist for monitoring kids, but yeah anyone can use them to monitor anyone: “In the report, titled The Predator in Your Pocket, researchers at The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy examined eight popular spyware apps sold as tools to keep…
When I saw a recent news story about Google Stadia, and the fact that other console makers, like Microsoft and Sony, are seriously considering moving to an all online gaming platform, and away from selling consoles, I immediately began to wonder how that would work with ISPs that have data caps and charges for using…
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