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Hacker News moves toward restricting Show HN posts, amid the AI slop wave →
A couple of weeks ago, there was a great blogpost Is Show HN Dead? No, But It’s Drowning . And now we see HN’s top moderator is discussing throttling Show HN somehow, responding in a thread with 600+ upvotes entitled Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting. I am working on a broader think… Continue reading Hacker News moves toward restricting Show HN posts, amid the AI slop wave
Epic gagging: Industry activist Tim Sweeney agrees to be muzzled about Google as part of a settlement that opened up the Play Store →
One thing you could always confidently say about Sweeney was “he’s going to speak his mind”. Going back decades, he has consistently been outspoken against powerful platforms and gatekeepers, including Windows, Apple’s App Stores, and Google’s Google Play store. Five years ago Epic Games sued Apple and Google over their app store practices. Recently, the… Continue reading Epic gagging: Industry activist Tim Sweeney agrees to be muzzled about Google as part of a settlement that opened up the Play Store
Meta’s own research (and its use of it) has shown that it repeatedly ignores well-substantiated facts about the harms of its products. Now that Section 230 seems like a flawed shield, I fear the takeaway for other companies will be: never do the research in the first place to preserve plausible deniability. Meta has always… Continue reading Meta shares drop on fears US verdicts open door to deluge of lawsuits