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it isn't. it's just an app.muh gab ain’t big tech
Well embraced by incels from right like derptacular.
Losses To Romance Scams Reached a Record $304 Million in 2020
The current COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent stay-at-home and social distancing directives might have played a major role in romance scams losses reaching record levels in 2020, the US Federal Trade Commission said in a report last week. From a report:Total losses were estimated at a record $304 million, up about 50% from 2019, with the average loss last year being estimated at $2,500 per individual. "From 2016 to 2020, reported total dollar losses increased more than fourfold, and the number of reports nearly tripled," the agency said. The FTC believes that the 50% e in extra losses recorded in 2020 can be attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has limited people's ability to meet in person and has forced more users towards using online long-distance and impersonal communications, such as dating apps. In most cases, the ruse of these scams is that the targets of a romance scam have to send money back to the crooks.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/02/17/facebook-will-ban-australian-users-from-sharing-or-viewing-news.htmlFacebook will ban Australian users from sharing or viewing news
PUBLISHED WED, FEB 17 2021 1:56 PM EST
UPDATED WED, FEB 17 2021 2:02 PM EST
KEY POINTS
- Facebook announced that it will no longer allow publishers and users in Australia to share or view news content.
- Facebook's decision to ban Australian news stories from its service comes in stark contrast to Google, which struck a revenue-sharing agreement with News Corp. in accordance with the new law.
House Republicans Wasted No Time Introducing the Dumbest Internet Bill of 2021.
According to Ars Technica, House Republicans introduced a new bill on Tuesday that would ban municipal broadband networks nationwide. Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Bob Latta (R-Ohio) included the proposal as part of their larger “Boosting Broadband Connectivity Agenda.”
The CONNECT Act, or “Communities Overregulating Networks Need Economic Compe ion” will supposedly not affect existing municipal broadband services, but is written to prevent cities and states from forming their own broadband networks unless “there is no more than one other commercial provider of broadband internet access that provides compe ion for that service in a particular area,” the bill states. Additionally, existing municipal broadband networks would be prohibited from expanding their network into new areas.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techn...?ocid=msedgntp
one reason big tech is a problem is that the DOJ and the stares won't take on monopolies or anticompe ive practices.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...pandemic.shtmlHaving covered telecom for twenty years, I've found there's a good shortcut to determining if somebody's really serious about fixing US broadband issues: can they admit that (1) monopolies exist, and (2) that this results in a lack of compe ion. The data is indisputable on this point. US broadband is heavily monopolized, and as a result is mediocre on nearly every metric that matters, whether we're talking about availability, speed, price, or customer service.
And yet, there's a parade of lawmakers, regulators (like former FCC boss Ajit Pai), think tankers and others who are, for either financial or rigid ideological reasons, still incapable of acknowledging that reality. As a result, they can't really fix the problem.
Take the lion's share of the GOP, for example. The party just spent four years gutting most meaningful oversight of America's broken broadband sector under the completely false claim that this would somehow result in monopolies like AT&T and Comcast doing a better job, expanding access, and boosting overall network investment. That simply never happened, and anybody claiming otherwise is lying to you.
Now, with Covid shining a bright light on the essential nature of broadband, the GOP has been forced to at least pretend they care about the problem. As a result, they've ushered forth a series of bills professing to "bridge the digital divide." Not too surprisingly, not a single bill acknowledges that private sector monopolization, limited compe ion, or high prices are even a problem.
Instead, the focus of all of the GOP's bills are focused exclusively on placing the blame entirely on the back of local governments. And while governments can sometimes be a pain in the ass to work with (not that working with Verizon, AT&T or Comcast is any real treat for governments either), the problem at this point isn't really local government. We've spent twenty years hamstringing local government authority and giving all the power to in bent private players through a litany of policy. And the result has been: precisely the ty, Comcast-dominated market we all know and love. "More of that," is not a serious solution.
Yup.
Parler users are especially stupid.
Did you use Parler, derp?
Do you know whether Twitter is archiving tweets?
Yes or no.
I'm not on twitter; I know tweets are archived all over the place and I'm sure twitter does.
Not with personal information like your Parler.
"if we don't cheat, we lose money"
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/18/2...dacted-filingsSome Facebook employees believed they were promoting “deeply wrong” data about how many users advertisers could reach, and one warned that the company had counted on “revenue we should have never made” based on its inflated numbers, according to recently unsealed internal emails.
The Financial Times reported the statements today based on a newly unredacted filing from a 2018 lawsuit in California. The lawsuit claims that Facebook knowingly overestimated its “potential reach” metric for advertisers, largely by failing to correct for fake and duplicate accounts. The filing states that Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg acknowledged problems with the metric in 2017, and product manager Yaron Fidler proposed a fix that would correct the numbers. But the company allegedly refused to make the changes, arguing that it would produce a “significant” impact on revenue.
Like this?Facebook silencing the "4th estate".
"I don't have a problem with that."
Judd Legum is not pleased.
Shapiro and a passel of conservtives crush liberal media daily on FB. It isn't even a contest.
Republicans for, Democrats against. States could change the landscape for tech companies dramatically by breaking the duopoly and allowing fair compe ion for apps.
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/a...dakota-suffersTwo weeks ago, Apple and Google managed to defeat a major bill in North Dakota to force compe ion in app stores. This week, the Arizona House of Representatives defied the tech giants and passed the very same bill.
The nomination of Tim Wu may tip Biden's hand
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...ition-advisor/Longtime tech critic Tim Wu is joining the Biden administration as an adviser on technology and compe ion, a signal that the White House is likely to push for policies that rein in Big Tech.
Wu will be serving on the National Economic Council as special assistant to the president for technology and compe ion policy, the White House said this morning. Wu confirmed the news in a tweet.
Wu is best known in tech circles as the man who coined the term "net neutrality" in the early 2000s. He has held several positions at the federal level before, including advisory roles with both the Federal Trade Commission and the National Economic Council. He has also been a full professor at Columbia University law school since 2006, where he teaches First Amendment and an rust law.
His 2010 book The Master Switch argued that the open Internet as we knew it was barreling toward a closed-off, walled-garden future. In 2018 he published another book, The Curse of Bigness, in which he argued that US regulators' failure to enforce an rust laws had led to "a new gilded age" and all its attendant problems.
If Biden hired Tim Wu and Lina Khan (two top an rust profs) as window dressing they just threw their reputations away, but I doubt that's the case. it looks like US an rust enforcement is coming back.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-t...st-11615316987
ST concordance on Lina Khan:
Amazon’s An rust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea
https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/sho...an#post9530451
https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/sho...an#post9736072In early 2017, when she was an unknown law student, Ms. Khan published “Amazon’s An rust Paradox” in the Yale Law Journal. Her argument went against a consensus in an rust circles that dates back to the 1970s — the moment when regulation was redefined to focus on consumer welfare, which is to say price. Since Amazon is renowned for its cut-rate deals, it would seem safe from federal intervention.
Ms. Khan disagreed. Over 93 heavily footnoted pages, she presented the case that the company should not get a pass on anticompe ive behavior just because it makes customers happy. Once-robust monopoly laws have been marginalized, Ms. Khan wrote, and consequently Amazon is amassing structural power that lets it exert increasing control over many parts of the economy.
Amazon has so much data on so many customers, it is so willing to forgo profits, it is so aggressive and has so many advantages from its shipping and warehouse infrastructure that it exerts an influence much broader than its market share. It resembles the all-powerful railroads of the Progressive Era, Ms. Khan wrote: “The thousands of retailers and independent businesses that must ride Amazon’s rails to reach market are increasingly dependent on their biggest compe or.”
git em
Facebook guidelines allow users to call for death of public figures
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...public-figures
Facebook: From Election to Insurrection
How Facebook Failed Voters and Nearly Set Democracy Aflame
Facebook could have prevented 10.1 billion estimated views for top-performing pages that repeatedly shared misinformation 1 .
- An analysis of the steps Facebook took throughout 2020 shows that if the platform had acted earlier, adopting civil society advice and proactively detoxing its algorithm, it could have stopped 10.1 billion estimated views of content from top-performing pages that repeatedly shared misinformation over the eight months before the US elections.
- Failure to downgrade the reach of these pages and to limit their ability to advertise in the year before the election meant Facebook allowed them to almost triple their monthly interactions, from 97 million interactions in October 2019 to 277.9 million interactions in October 2020 - catching up with the top 100 US media pages 2 (ex. CNN, MSNBC, Fox News) on Facebook.
- Facebook has now rolled back many of the emergency policies it ins uted during the elections, returning to the algorithmic status quo that allowed conspiracy movements like QAnon and Stop the Steal to flourish.
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en..._insurrection/
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