Recent congressional hearings of tech executives have showcased posturing and battering by legislators elected to be referees, rather than real policy-making
and controversial — approach to how people tweet. https://www.politico.com/... Nancy Scola / @nancyscola : Inside Facebook headquarters, some aren't impressed by Twitter's recent crackdown on high-profile political tweets. https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
“The crisis is a crisis of attention more than a crisis of speech. Rarely in human history has it been possible to speak more, to more people, with such ease. This has made a form of censorship easier, one based on meddling with attention and credibility” https://zeynep.substack.…
There's going to be deluge of newsletter analysis of the section 230 hearing over the next few days (guilty) But, before any of that-read @zeynep's post which may be among the most relevant ones about the hearing without actually being about The hearing https://zeynep.substack.co…
What's missing from this hearing: “we have to debate everything from the dominance of few social media companies over the public sphere to the problem of regulating attention in an age of information glut” https://zeynep.substack.com/ ... A healthier Congress would have done so, …
“Speech is one of the most anthropologically complex things imaginable.” I profile Vijaya Gadde, the Twitter exec who's architecting Twitter's new — and controversial — approach to how people tweet. https://www.politico.com/...
Inside Facebook headquarters, some aren't impressed by Twitter's recent crackdown on high-profile political tweets. https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...