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Alaska Will Finally Get Its Own Fiber-Optic Line (Wired)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 05/01/2019 - 12:53Tech Lobbyists Push to Defang California's Landmark Privacy Law (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 04/29/2019 - 14:52Visa Rejections for Tech Workers Spike Under President Trump (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 04/25/2019 - 11:15Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Met With President Trump
President Donald Trump lobbed another attack against Twitter on its own platform, calling the company “very discriminatory” and saying “they don’t treat me well as a Republican." It turns out the President was scheduled to meet Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Twitter policy head Vijaya Gadde notified employees that their boss was supposed to meet with President Trump in a 30-minute, closed-door meeting. Later the President tweeted, "Great meeting this afternoon at the @WhiteHouse with @Jack from @Twitter.
Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation (Wired)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 04/22/2019 - 12:48How Recommendation Algorithms Run the World (Wired)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 04/22/2019 - 12:17Platforms Want Centralized Censorship. That Should Scare You.
In the aftermath of [recent horrific mass shootings], some of the responses from internet companies include ideas that point in a disturbing direction: toward increasingly centralized and opaque censorship of the global internet. Facebook, for example, describes plans for an expanded role for the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, or GIFCT.
15 Months of Hell Inside Facebook
In some ways, the world’s largest social network is stronger than ever, with record revenue of $55.8 billion in 2018. But Facebook has also never been more threatened. Here are some dangers that could knock it down.