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Black Out Day

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Well today is the day many of your favorite websites may be going dark to protest against legislation that is under consideration in the US that would give the government the ability to remove websites from the internet based on complaints of violating copyright, without much in the way of an ability of any site…

Linked: The Platform Challenge: Balancing Safety, Privacy and Freedom
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Linked: The Platform Challenge: Balancing Safety, Privacy and Freedom

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

Yes, this lecture from Alex Stamos is an hour long, but if you’re interested in the struggle we face when it comes to social media, misinformation, privacy and freedom, it’s worth your time. A couple of points after watching it myself: 1. The balance he spends a lot of time talking about is real. For…

Linked – Why It’s Virtually Impossible to Moderate Social Media Sites
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Linked – Why It’s Virtually Impossible to Moderate Social Media Sites

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I’m sure at some point, Elon Musk thought for sure that he could buy Twitter and do a better job of content moderation. I’m sure most of us have had a similar thought. We just didn’t have $44 billion lying around.

He did, and now he gets to realize something the rest of us should know by now. There’s no easy way to do it.

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Linked – Two in a thousand people ‘view child sexual abuse images at work’

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

“NetClean’s founder and CEO Christian Berg said that more effort should go into identifying paedophiles within the workplace because as many as two people in a thousand use work computers to view child sexual abuse material.“While it may appear strange for people to do this at work, many people actually find their work computer to…

Linked – Do You Have a Constitutional Right to Use Facebook and Twitter? Supreme Court Weighs In
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Linked – Do You Have a Constitutional Right to Use Facebook and Twitter? Supreme Court Weighs In

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

This is interesting: “Justice Elena Kagan noted that President Donald Trump, every governor and every member of Congress has a Twitter account. “So this has become a crucially important channel of political communication,” Kagan said. “And a person couldn’t go onto those sites and find out what these members of our government are thinking or…

Linked – Why Is Innovation So Hard For Lawyers And Firms?
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Linked – Why Is Innovation So Hard For Lawyers And Firms?

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Bob makes some good points in response the Lisa Bodell’s keynote from last week’s ILTA conference. I highly suggest you go read his column. Bodell was a good speaker and an inspiring one. But I felt her message of organizational change failed to take into account one major factor: We’re talking about the legal profession…

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