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Whose job is it to provide consequences when someone breaks the law?
It seems like this issue shouldn’t be that complicated. We expect law enforcement to deal with it when someone breaks the law. Not private individuals or organizations. Because that’s vigilantism.
Yet, on the internet, over and over again, we keep seeing people set the expectations that tech companies need to provide the...
“AI,” or semi-cooked language learning models are very cool. There’s a world of possibility there in terms of creativity and productivity tools to scientific research.
But early adoption of AI has been more of a rushed mess driven by speculative VC bros who are more interested in making money off of hype (see: pointless AI badges), or cutting corners (see: journalism), or badly automating...
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is That One Guy with a comment about the lawsuit between cops that resulted more than $23 million in damages:
‘They hospitalized a cop, but he’s a black guy and they’re white so…’
The injuries:And he’s already secured a settlement from the city for $5 million, so at least he’s getting something out of this beyond two titanium plates in his...
Five Years Ago
This week in 2019, Texas began pushing its bill that would allow the state to sue Twitter for banning conservatives, while Facebook filed a questionable lawsuit over fake followers and likes, and a New York saxophonist became the latest to join the bandwagon of suing Fortnite developers. The Supreme Court asked the White House to weigh in on the copyrightability of APIs, while the...
Roberto Escobar appears to want to keep banging his head against this particular brick wall for some reason. Roberto, brother to infamous drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, has been trying to assert trademark and other rights to his brother’s name for years now. It started in Columbia, in which the country flat out refused to grant him the mark out of concern that the public would not be served by any...
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In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined...
As much as I dislike and distrust Axon (formerly Taser and the leading proponent of the “excited delirium” theory of cop exoneration), I just don’t think there’s much going on here. Sometimes there are actual monopolies. And sometimes, one business is just better at business than its competitors.
But that’s what a few cities are claiming in a new lawsuit, first reported by Cyrus Farivar for...
Schools have always kept tabs on students using school-issued devices. Prior to the pandemic, this had mostly been limited to filtering software that prevents students from accessing content schools don’t approve of. Of course, this has also kept students from accessing content that might be useful to them personally (self-harm prevention, LGBTQ+ content) or scholastically (because Wikipedia is...
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It’s almost laughable that these two stories happened so close to one another. The Australian government has just announced a pilot program to test an online age verification system:
And then, just hours later, it was reported that law enforcement is investigating an apparent breach of club and bar patrons’ personal data, which the venues are required to collect by law for people entering such...