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That seems unworkable because, well, I just don’t want social media to be dumb pipes. Without sites making editorial decisions every site will be full of porn and animal torture vi…

Actually, it looks like there is something in the law that only provides DMCA safe harbor to providers that have a policy of terminating accounts of repeat infringers. I'm still no…

I don’t see how it would ever make sense to hold social media liable for user posted defamation. Look at the recent Afroman defamation lawsuit and consider how YouTube is supposed …

It seems like you would still have to remove the infringing content , but no need to disconnect or ban the user who shared it. But if you’re a pure ISP and not hosting content on y…

But there is a difference between “illegal to regurgitate it” and “illegal to remember it”. IIRC in this case that settled the judge had ruled on “remember” (fair use) but not on t…

As described in the ruling, Apple hired a consulting group to estimate how much value developers get from the iphone platform, which found that (1) Apple’s platform technology is w…

"To hide the truth, Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, outright lied under oath" Yikes. I really thought Apple was going to get away with all their crazy restrictions they came…

It would make sense if Apple decided to still have Google be their default, even without the payment. Not sure how likely that is though.

Sure, it’s ok for them to decide what kind of content they want on their own platform. Edit: not ok for govt to coerce them into it though

The right to forget is about removing personal information from a site, or removing articles about you from search results. An answer to a Stackoverflow question isn't really perso…

I was responsible for drawing 1/25th of this gif back in the day. There was actually way more tiles created but this is one version that went viral. Crazy to see it still pop up li…

It's fairly accurate though. The preliminary injunction in that case blocked government agencies from even talking to social media companies (though some of that got reversed by th…

Do you have a link to the tweet from Sweeney saying he would breach the contract?

I think everything you said was fair, but you also mentioned Twitter being a conservative cesspool, and a lot these features like federation and composable moderation are designed …

Thanks and wow, they’re really doing everything imaginable to make it difficult to include such a link. And their rules say the link cannot contain any additional parameters so it …

It will be interesting to see how far the anti-steering ruling actually goes. Will Apple still be able to block links to a alternative payment options? Or what if the link contains…

What is there to enforce? There are no duties, obligations, or punishments in the law, it just provides an affirmative defense for lawsuits.

The issue is that the way this is written the AI doesn't have to be responsible for the liable content, it just has to be involved . If I post something defamatory on HN, and HN he…

Yeah but this video is clearly just transformers blowing. A block of street lights goes out the exact same time as one of the flashes.

They have to pay for showing links, and those links do send traffic to news sites. That is indisputable. You’re phrasing is just incorrect, honestly. Linking to a website is not at…

The part you quoted and called bullshit is factually correct though. CAN has told Meta and Google that if they show links to news sites (which do drive business to those sites) the…

There are different degrees of “secure”, right? Maybe you could give a key to the FBI without China getting ahold of it, maybe it’s still “secure enough”. But you can’t say it’s “j…

My company has been fully remote since 2020, I agree that collaboration is still easy. The sort of meetings where we used to sit in a conference room and brainstorm on a whiteboard…

Because one of the things the negotiating framework covers is how much money google and meta must pay to news providers when news content is “made available” to canadians, and “mad…

I’m on Google/meta’s side because link taxes are a bad idea for the internet as a whole. That anyone (even Meta, who I generally dislike) should have to pay to link to a news artic…