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this take is so pretentious that it reads like tech bro satire. Ah yes, customizing my email footer settings will showcase my refined taste and advanced aesthetic sense.

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'California voters absolutely own voting for proposition 22' To be fair they set a new record for money spent on supporting a ballot measure in state history ($225m) and it still o…

RIP. I'd love to know why is this allowed but Kobe threads were all removed?

> The media has fallen into the well-known trap of optimizing the wrong KPI. You want to maximize trust with the public, not engagement KPI for whose benefit? Shareholders or the '…

This story is so wild, imagine being this couple and trying to tell the police ebay execs are harassing me because I wrote mean things about them on the internet. This is a widespr…

agreed man, have fond memories of tweaking themes for daily drivers like irc client, winamp foobar2000, compared to like spotify or discord now feels so neutered and limited in ter…

a dark pattern because while it's not actually required it might as well be, their 'account locked' email conveniently leaves out that you can simply email them and have them re-en…

One contract that was handed to me from an established company even included a clause that any IP created by even up to 5 (FIVE!) years AFTER you're no longer employed belongs to t…

FIFA (The governing body for soccer) issues similar fines and bans for any political messages. ie fined they recently fined English/Scotish FA's 100k for players wearing poppies (a…

Worth noting cloudflare leadership has been fighting this war for years and this is just a small battle. Can you tell us when @Cloudflare will be holding its next "How to Protect N…

it's ridiculous it's given this much attention when there's far more nefarious activity and problems caused by big tech that are to date totally under the radar outside of a few re…

what I found interesting was how quickly Hn jumped to action (contacting investors, pension funds) relating to NGO on a completely unsubstantiated report. "May have been" was the q…

This is fantastic, thanks for writing it and for your testimony! my favorite bits "The emergence of this tech oligopoly reflects a profound shift in our society, the migration of e…

FB is the sacrificial lamb, popular scapegoat and effective distraction in this new era of SV policies shaping public opinion, ideas and as a result global politics. It seems mispl…

> They're definitely taking an approach of culling anything that advertisers might not like. This could not be further from reality, see https://old.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubredd…

> Reddit is another example a company that has recently scrubbed itself of most controversial content, I agree with you on most points however reddit takes no action against extrem…

to offer a counter opinion I found wordfence highly obtrusive, annoying and full of dark patterns in an attempt to upsell you to premium. They present in their dashboard ALL attack…

I'm far from courageous, in fact I'm scared because these groups regularly DoX those who draw attention to this pressing issue: https://thenextweb.com/opinion/2018/07/17/the-daily-…

archive.is is a very important tool in online extremism research and you've taken money from far-right extremists, your explanation for why it's inaccessible seems incomplete. This…

I understand the appeal of that for developers but it comes at the cost of users agency and control of their own system, I've been very annoyed with even simple UI changes in firef…

I have all of the privacy options unchecked including studies but Normandy (which I've just found out about via this issue) is still enabled.

except at the moment we're dealing with highly organized paid misinformation campaigns and widespread propaganda under the guise of free speech. This will not be popular on Hn but …

"The extraordinary step reflects growing global concern, particularly among governments, about the capacity of American-owned networks to spin up violence." "Officials blocked the …

Why are discussions surrounding Chinese Politics permitted but no other political discussions? Seems like a double standard. Just quickly looking at the removals here's a 4 hour ol…