The French startup scene also suffers from a lack of diversity, but it cannot be measured because it is mostly illegal in France to track people's ethnicity
- Bloomberg polled top venture capital firms on diversity policy — 'Absence of ethnic diversity doesn't seem to bother investors' Tweets: @martinsfp , @technology , @hkanji , and @business Tweets: ...
In a letter to members of Congress, IBM says it's exiting the general-purpose facial recognition business and opposes the use of such tech for mass surveillance
and +1 on this (tho already a bit late): “We believe now is the time to begin a national dialogue on whether and how facial recognition technology should be employed by domestic law enforcement agenci...
Facebook, which makes no mention of CBD in its ad policies, says users are not allowed to post ads or pay to promote posts that mention CBD-infused products
Bijan Stephen / The Verge : Tweets: @davepell and @bijanstephen Tweets: Dave Pell / @davepell : Nazis. Check. Russians. Check. Haters: Check. CBD: Wait, that's dangerous speech. https://twitter.com/....
Twitter simplifies the language for its rules and reorganizes them into three high-level categories: safety, privacy, and authenticity
yet it still can't say no to Nazis AJ Dellinger / Engadget : Twitter simplifies its rules on safety, privacy and more Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET : Twitter simplifies its rules to emphasize safety, privacy ...
YouTube updates guidelines to ban videos that promote the superiority of any group to justify discrimination, resulting in the removal of thousands of channels
even when it's documentary footage https://twitter.com/... Tim O'Brien / @timobrien : YouTube just banned supremacist content, and thousands of channels are about to be removed. Why isn't Facebook doi...
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...