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I’m Reddit’s CEO and Think Regulating Social Media Is Tyranny. AITA?
For the first 20 minutes of our conversation, Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, the sixth most-visited website in the US,…
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Montana’s Looming TikTok Ban Is a Dangerous Tipping Point
Montana lawmakers voted 54-43 today to ban TikTok from operating in the state and forbid app stores from offering it…
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Texas Could Push Tech Platforms to Censor Posts About Abortion
Pinsof says companies facing such legal threats would have little incentive to defend the free speech of their users if…
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Senator Warner on the Restrict Act and a US TikTok Ban
In the future, it might be a new mobile game or an algorithm helping students study at home. It could…
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WhatsApp Has Started a Fight With the UK About Encryption
“Nobody’s defending CSAM,” says Barbora Bukovská, senior director for law and policy at Article 19, a digital rights group. “But…
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India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet
Akash Banerjee isn’t sure whether he’s allowed to talk about the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question on his YouTube…
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How the US Could Ban TikTok in 7 Not-So-Easy Steps
Individual users would not have faced penalties for staying on TikTok, and internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon would…
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ADS-B Exchange, the Flight Tracker That Powered @ElonJet, Sold to Jetnet
“There’s countries we can’t go to anymore,” Stanford says of himself and a core team of administrators. In recent years,…
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Meta Eyes a Moderation Partner With ‘Traumatizing’ Working Conditions
Meta has cut ties with a subcontractor that provided moderators for its African markets, just weeks before the tech giant…
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Big Tech Is Playing it Safe on Iran. Workers Are Taking Charge
But in a previously unreported response, Google’s US public policy head Mark Isakowitz wrote back a month later saying that…
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