You're taking a v specific comparison out of context to claim I believe China and the US are the same across the board. I never make this claim. Further, you're doing it to defend protectionist policy that 10 years ago at Google you'd have called "the authoritarian splinternet"
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Public Reaction to Proposed Bill Generates Significant Debate
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Thank you Sanjukta!!! This means a lot and I'm so glad it resonated. I was genuinely surprised to see the number of people defending this bill given…
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TikTok Ban Speech Defense Platform Regulation Policy
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NEW FROM ME! On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state "outside the scope of this paper" leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose.
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Government Account Political Fundraising Raises Hatch Act Ethics Concerns
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Process point: using a gov-affiliated account for political fundraising and mudslinging is, if my FTC ethics training memory serves, a Hatch Act violation. https://
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Corporate Narratives Hide Real Talk About Concentrated Capital
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YES! The civility politics that proscribe real talk about $ serve only corps narrating concentrated capital as scientific progress + funders engaged in chronic underfunding that produces potemkin 'solutions' with no chance of irl addressing the problems they're expected to solve.
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AI Company Exploits Real Tragedy for Marketing Purposes Ethically Questionable
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I'm not making fun of them I'm calling out the bad taste (to be diplomatic) of using a real tragedy that impacted real people as a marketing hook for their AI services, particularly when they're actively contributing to the conditions that enabled the tragedy to begin with.
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Zero to One: Foundational Reading on Technology Innovation
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I see you, too, have read zero to one
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Microsoft AI Oil Gas Vertical Raises Sustainability Concerns
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Did this ad get you interested in Microsoft and climate? Then you need to run not walk to check out their AI oil and gas vertical, dedicated to selling AI to big oil to help ID & extraction of fossil fuels. The more you know https://
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Signal Clarifies Phone Registration and Metadata Encryption Privacy
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I don’t have time rn to go into detail, but tldr you’re conflating many different things to reach v inaccurate conclusions. Signal requiring a phone #—any phone#—for registration does not enable ANY of these other capabilities. We encrypt metadata, do not track location. Etc.