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How the FTC Can Make the Internet Safe for Chatbots
Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230
In an age of resurgent anti-monopoly activism, small online communities, either standing on their own, or joined in loose “federations,” are the best chance we have to escape Big Tech’s relentless surveillance and clumsy, unaccountable control.
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Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"
The European Union’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a complex, many-legged beast, but at root, it is a regulation that aims to make it easier for the public to control the technology they use and rely on. One DMA rule forces the powerful “gatekeeper” tech companies to allow third-party...
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Privacy First and Competition
Monopolists want us to believe that their power over our lives is inevitable and unchangeable, just as the surveillance industry banks on convincing you that the fight for privacy was and always will be a lost cause. But we once had a better internet, and we can get a better...
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Hip Hip Hooray For Hipster Antitrust
The Great Interoperability Convergence: 2023 Year in Review
Without Interoperability, Apple Customers Will Never Be Secure
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Every internet user should have the ability to privately communicate with the people that matter to them, in a secure fashion, using the tools and protocols of their choosing.Apple’s iMessage offers end-to-end encrypted messaging for its customers, but only if those customers want to talk to someone who also has... - Read more about Without Interoperability, Apple Customers Will Never Be Secure
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You Wanna Break Up With Your Bank? The CFPB Wants to Help You Do It.
Your Computer Should Say What You Tell It To Say
WEI? I’m a frayed knot_Two pieces of string walk into a bar._ The first piece of string asks for a drink. The bartender says, “Get lost. We don’t serve pieces of string.” The second string ties a knot in his middle and messes up his ends. Then he orders a drink. The bartender...
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To Save the News, We Need an End-to-End Web
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This is part five of an ongoing, five-part series. Part one, the introduction, is here. Part two, about breaking up ad-tech companies, is here. Part three, about banning surveillance ads, is here. Part four, about opening up app stores, is here. Download this whole series... - Read more about To Save the News, We Need an End-to-End Web