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The American far right has meanwhile shifted the legitimate political debate about online platform regulation into an argument about “bans” and “free speech,” attacking the academics and other researchers who seek to understand how the online world functions and to explore how it could be made more transparent.
Anne Applebaum • Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
The chief technical officer of Blockstack, Ali has created a new parallel peer-to-peer Internet. You can go to its site and download its browser and experience the benefits of a secure Internet where you control your own information.
George Gilder • Life After Google
The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they’re friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they’re just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children.5 Because, let’s face it, checking your “likes” is the new smoking.