Chatbots provide essential information for some of the most vulnerable communities. Governments don't and can't provide that kind of support, ever because it's too expensive. And now they want to take away this essential service from people. Licensing costs money! The providers will charge people!
so when people say policies should have "teeth" what do they mean? They should have teeth to bite people so that they get hurt and bleed? Such great governance mechanisms we think of!
Set up a conduit-psiphon so that people can connect to Internet service. only a few peers from time to time. I cannot bring myself to shut this down thinking I am depriving people of a vital service. And the Islamic Republic sabotages millions of people's Internet.
set up conduit.psiphon.ca and help people connect. A window of connectivity has activated in Iran that enables Iranians to have access.
Yes thank you. I got some reports that people managed to briefly connect.
Another sleepless night! We are on a never ending roller coaster which nobody stopsβ¦
An extremely important thread for everyone who does digital governance especially UK experts.
Set up a conduit-psiphon so that people can connect to Internet service. only a few peers from time to time. I cannot bring myself to shut this down thinking I am depriving people of a vital service. And the Islamic Republic sabotages millions of people's Internet.
It is important not to misframe what Wikimedia has done as a "license" deal even if free. Licensing will restrict smaller actors and individuals. It creates a host of βexportβ and βimportβ issues. We need to be very careful about this otherwise we are going to create a digital divide in access.
Stop whatever you're doing and read @farzdusa.bsky.social rejoinder to "digital sovereignty" at @futurefreespeech.org's Bedrock Principle:
Madonna and a bunch managed to win a few UDRP cases early Internet times
Yes I am having existential crisis and feeling like an utter failure. Nation states normalize these shutdowns by blocking kids from social media, age verification and sometimes even blocking apps in your colonies! Tired of your lip service to a free and open Internet that you donβt protect.
It is very obvious that the Internet community which I am a part of has let people down. Islamic Republic can just keep people in the dark because they have access to technology and network operators are not empowered enough to resist it? Isnt this because access and connectivity became secondary?
Some people in western democracies are so used to their basic freedom that they don't even notice when nation states take them away. Or support it even!
There are different ways to achieve justice. My Maman Zahra paved the way for the rest of us through tolerance, resilience and compassion.
I am thinking a lot about my Maman Zahra. I am glad you arenβt here to see how many more mothers are grappling with the monstrous grief of losing their children to injustice. But also I am hoping for those mothers not to take their dreams of justice to grave.
1. Indiana passes law requiring website with more than 1/3 harmful-to-minors sexual content to verify that users are adults.
2. Pornhub parent Aylo responds by blocking Indiana users.
3. Indiana now sues because Hooisers may use VPNs to evade the geoblock, so ...
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And here you go with Telegram ad! The fun part is that Telegram picks the ads for your channels. So your channel could be about how bad cow milk is for your gut health and Telegram will add an ad under your post: join the cow milk advocacy group! Fun times!
I understand that people want to think they have found the cause of the agony they are going through, they have found the perpetrator who took their loved ones away. Fixation on one factor might bring you temporary relief but itβs not worth the distraction from effective solutions.
My mom says Generative AI chatbots made a big difference in her life this year. In your fight with big tech, don't forget that these AI online services, can be essential for some of the most vulnerable people.
Encryption is not a risk factor, encryption is security of the service. Its existence doesn't inherently increase risk. Its lack of existence on the other hand does.
Arrowsmith, Main Street, and Babbit by Sinclair Lewis
Christmas present to self: a trio of freshly typeset and footnoted editions from the master of the 1920s and the 2020s, from the delightful almabooks.com
Watch the story of an actress who joined the uprising against hijab and for liberty in Iran and said something so profound: I will not participate in a cinema that does not present people with the image narrative that speaks to them and is acceptable for them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y29z...
This is how a lot of laws get made: roll out a βsecurityβ rule with foreseeable harm, let people absorb the damage for years, then slowly carve out exemptions.remedies that arrive after humiliation, loss, and stress donβt erase the harm. Anyway this is good news! swalwell.house.gov/media-center...
Another Christmas meal: ash reshte
And after years I had Nan, butter and honey for Christmas breakfast. At this point I miss Esfahan.
I managed to close all my tabs! There were over 100 of them!
The real cost of the administrationβs utterly bonkers restriction on visas for trust and safety workers.
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Itβs definitely a choice to file a 1201(a) suit for web scraping in the same week that a judge definitively rejected that theory of liability.
As the former Google Associate General Counsel for web search -- a product built on scraping third party content without permission -- I'm having a lot of trouble processing Google's new lawsuit against someone else for scraping search results. storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog...
