A look at the murky world of moderation on Clubhouse, which has become a haven for the powerful to flirt with misogyny and racism
Tatiana Walk-Morris / Vanity Fair : Tweets: @robinwauters Tweets: Robin Wauters / @robinwauters : “In the bubble that is Clubhouse, pseudo-intellectual monologues from powerful users can go unchecked...
Hyderabad, with 500K+ CCTV cameras, has become India's most surveilled city and a test bed for AI-based visual surveillance tech for the rest of the country
Hyderabad's IT industry brought jobs and growth to the city. Critics now say the same technology is being used to watch the moves of every citizen Tweets: @eggopolis , @codastory , @varshaabansal , @...
Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz
chiefly journalism in the public interest. https://www.vice.com/... Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : Someone leaked an hour of audio from Clubhouse last night where Balajis, Felicia Horowitz, and other...
Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz
chiefly journalism in the public interest. https://www.vice.com/... @jason : Fair warning: everything you say on #Clubhouse is being covertly recorded by journalists to weaponize against you This is t...
The tech community doesn't get as excited about tech as we used to, as enthusiasm about startups and embracing new things has been replaced by cynicism
WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT GOOGLE WAVE WOULD BECOME THE GOOD OL' DAYS? — Today marks 10 years since Google stoked great excitement … Tweets: @carnage4life , @cate_lawrence , @robinwauters , @dan_rowinski ...
Zucked, a book by early Facebook investor Roger McNamee, details Facebook's damage to society, the dystopia it created, and advocates breaking up its monopoly
ZUCKED — Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe — The dystopia George Orwell conjured up in “1984” wasn't a prediction. Tweets: @nytimes , @karaswisher , @robinwauters , and @pamelapaulnyt Tweets: ...
Three recent books argue that big tech became powerful not because of “software disruption” but by ducking regulation, squeezing workers, strangling competitors
A FEW YEARS after the Great Recession, you couldn't scroll through Google Reader without seeing the word “disrupt.” Tweets: @nitashatiku , @robinwauters , @ruchowdh , @chrisalensula , @lam_barrett , @...
Russian lawmakers propose bill requiring sites with 100K+ daily visitors to take down “inaccurate” posts or comments within a day or face fines up to ~$800K
with, of course, Russian propagandists as those who determine what is real (presumably pro-Putin) or fake (critical). http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/... Freedom House / @freedomhouse : ...
Silicon Valley, which was at its most politically vocal before the election, reacts with disbelief, anger, and frustration at Trump's win
I am writing this from Web Summit … Brad Feld / Feld Thoughts : Getting Back To Work — Yesterday morning I woke up and said out loud … Gordon Hunt / Silicon Republic : Donald Trump: The shock presid...