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Russia is quietly ramping up its Internet censorship machine (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 07/26/2022 - 12:34Don’t Look Now, but Congress Might Pass an Actually Good Privacy Bill (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 07/24/2022 - 07:54Meet the Lobbyist Next Door
Washington’s political power brokers are quietly inching toward a full embrace of influencers. If not handled with care, however, that can be hazardous—particularly when the arrangement is unmasked. Urban Legend, a small ad-tech startup operating out of a loft in Alexandria (VA), pledges on its website to “help brands run accountable and impactful influencer campaigns.” Launched in 2020 by a pair of former Trump administration staffers, its more comprehensive mission, one rarely articulated in public, is slightly more ambitious.
The Digital Divide Is Coming for You
Throughout the pandemic, in-person and analog services have rapidly fallen to digital alternatives. While the digital divide has been excluding economically disadvantaged and elderly people for years, its rapid expansion is creating a new problem: The technology is often terrible. The replacement of in-person services with digital alternatives is becoming an ever-growing inconvenience for those on the wrong side of the digital divide.
Meta Was Restricting Abortion Content All Along (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 06:25Op-Ed | Section 230 Is a Last Line of Defense for Abortion Speech Online (Wired)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 13:15Russia Is Taking Over Ukraine’s Internet
Since the end of May 2022, the 280,000 people living in Kherson, Ukraine and its surrounding areas have faced constant online disruptions as internet service providers are forced to reroute their connections throu