Ahead of a likely US TikTok ban, users flee to Chinese apps Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, and ByteDance's Lemon8, currently the top two apps in the US App Store
and how to prepare Koh Ewe / BBC : TikTok users flock to Chinese app RedNote as US ban looms New York Times : ‘Red Note,’ a Chinese App, Is Dominating Downloads, Thanks to TikTok Users Emily Hallas / ...
Hugging Face confirms “regrettable accessibility issues in China”, after a report says the country fully blocked access to the AI model platform on September 12
https://www.semafor.com/... X: Louise Matsakis / @lmatsakis : Hugging Face confirmed to me that it's been blocked in China. It will be interesting to see what impact this has on AI development there h...
Hugging Face confirms “regrettable accessibility issues in China”, after a report says the country fully blocked access to the AI model platform on September 12
https://www.semafor.com/... X: Louise Matsakis / @lmatsakis : Hugging Face confirmed to me that it's been blocked in China. It will be interesting to see what impact this has on AI development there h...
TikTok quietly started testing its livestreaming e-commerce feature TikTok Shop in the US this week; source: TikTok invited select US businesses to participate
Louise Matsakis / Semafor : Tweets: @whet See also Mediagazer Tweets: Whet Moser / @whet : this is interesting. this sort of thing is popular in china but hasn't taken off here. not clear whether the...
Twitter and Facebook's ban on Trump is not censorship, and demanding clear rules for social media moderation is “stupid” because the context is always changing
every case is different. https://www.techdirt.com/... And inciting an attack on your own government that leaves five people dead is a far graver assault on free speech than anything you're complaining...
Some experts agree that TikTok may pose a threat to the US national security because of China, but blocking the app would be too drastic a measure
Louise Matsakis / Wired : Tweets: @wired , @lmatsakis , @lmatsakis , and @lmatsakis Tweets: @wired : TikTok's fiercest opponents argue that it should be viewed as a dangerous Trojan Horse for Chinese...
Musical.ly founder Alex Zhu, who now heads TikTok, claims that TikTok doesn't share data with China or ByteDance and doesn't censor videos at China's behest
This is peak TikTok PR. https://www.nytimes.com/... Louise Matsakis / @lmatsakis : The head of TikTok sat down for an interview for the first time since taking the role. The NYT mentions his interesti...
Investigation finds 4,152 items on Amazon that were declared unsafe by federal agencies, are deceptively labeled, or are banned by regulators
but which really wasn't. “Amazon in court argued it didn't sell the helmet but merely listed it on the seller's behalf.” https://www.wsj.com/... Joanna Stern / @joannastern : Things @WSJ found on Amaz...
Facebook says it will ban white nationalist and white separatist content, pointing users to nonprofits, after initially only banning white supremacist content
Today we're announcing a ban on praise … Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : It shouldn't take a tragedy for tech companies to fight hate on their platforms Reuters : Facebook bans white nationalism, w...
SEC's William Hinman, head of Division of Corporate Finance who oversees cryptocurrencies, says Bitcoin and Ether are not securities but many ICOs are
Not your lawyer, not legal advice. Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk : SEC Has Removed ‘Stumbling Block’ for Ether Futures, Says Cboe President Bloomberg : Crypto Coins Surge as SEC Spares Ether From Securitie...