public discourse A startup called Civil Comments is trying to create a civil commenting platform Mark Frauenfelder
sponsored It's Time for Silicon Valley To Finish Its Job of Disrupting the Racist Drug War Boing Boing
facebook Over 30 ex-Facebook employees slam Zuckerberg's inaction on harmful political posts in open letter Carla Sinclair
Business Biden says Section 230 tech liability shield should end for Facebook, Zuckerberg should be subject to civil liability Xeni Jardin
fake news The New Deal was partly motivated by a desire to kill the fake news epidemic of the Gilded Age Cory Doctorow
twitter German researchers with ties to for-profit "neuromarketing" company want to use AI to guess peoples' "intelligence" from their writing Cory Doctorow
books How Ken Liu went from engineer to lawyer to SF writer to the foremost translator of Chinese sf into English Cory Doctorow
web theory Contract for the Web: Tim Berners-Lee calls on world governments (and us all) to make the web a force for good Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Talking science fiction, technological self-determination, inequality and competition with physicist Sean Carroll Cory Doctorow
surveillance America's rotten ISPs object to encrypted DNS, argue that losing the ability to spy on your traffic puts them at a competitive disadvantage Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow
Business Demetrification: improving social media by removing public like/follower/repost counts Cory Doctorow
books Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow
eff A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competition Cory Doctorow
