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James Grimmelmann

@grimmelm
19 posts
2022-09-10
If you claim to support “fundamental reforms” to Section 230 but can't or won't say what those reforms are, I have a hard time taking anything else you say seriously. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-10 View on X
Protocol

The White House unveils six proposals for tech policy reform aimed at competition, algorithms, and safety on social platforms, and suggests Section 230 changes

for a Good Reason Alfonso Maruccia / TechSpot : White House consults experts, lays down a six-point plan to increase Big Tech accountability GovTech : White House Outlines Guiding ...

2022-09-09
If you claim to support “fundamental reforms” to Section 230 but can't or won't say what those reforms are, I have a hard time taking anything else you say seriously. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-09 View on X
Protocol

The White House unveils six proposals for tech policy reform aimed at competition, algorithms, and safety on social platforms, and suggests Section 230 changes

The White House on Thursday praised “bipartisan interest in Congress in passing legislation to protect privacy” …

2022-02-17
The part about how “Wikipedia, but contributors get paid” always fails is also great. The whole interview is just outstanding. https://www.platformer.news/ ...
2022-02-17 View on X
Platformer

Q&A with longtime Wikipedia contributor Molly White about her website “Web3 is going just great”, why Web3 won't create new Wikipedia-style projects, and more

they are familiar with the challenges that community governance and decentralization can bring.” @molly0xFFF, brilliantly https://www.platformer.news/ ...

2021-08-06
Everything is content moderation. Yelp will also be proactively monitoring these pages for review bombing. https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-06 View on X
The Verge

Yelp will let businesses list their vaccination policies, including if customers must show proof of vaccination, wear masks, or if all staff are vaccinated

Including details on staff and customer vaccinations  —  Yelp will let businesses share their policies on COVID-19 vaccinations, the company announced today.

2021-07-01
I'm not optimistic about our ability to convince people a ten thousand years from now not to substantially disturb this place physically if we can't even tell people ten years from now not to delete this video. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-01 View on X
The Atlantic

A look at link rot, and projects like Perma, which are trying to give authors of enduring documents like scholarly papers a way to preserve links permanently

Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Tweets: @lanceulanoff , @ethanz , @heghoulian , @d...

2021-05-06
The Facebook Oversight Board decision on Trump's account is out, which means it's time for me to edit this thing and kibbitz about the details. https://oversightboard.com/...
2021-05-06 View on X
Oversight Board

Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules

For Now Kari Paul / The Guardian : Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board Donald J. Trump : Donald Trump calls the actions of “corrupt social media companies”...

Are tweets by @OversightBoard approved by a majority of the Board? Because this is not an accurate summary of the relevant portion of its decision today and it editorializes in a way that the decision does not. https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-06 View on X
Oversight Board

Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules

For Now Kari Paul / The Guardian : Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board Donald J. Trump : Donald Trump calls the actions of “corrupt social media companies”...

The FOB doesn't believe in indenting block quotes. I do! the FOB doesn't believe in title-casing section headings. I do! The FOB believes in italicizing block quotations. I don't! Really not a fan of the FOB's typographical choices here.
2021-05-06 View on X
Oversight Board

Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules

For Now Kari Paul / The Guardian : Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board Donald J. Trump : Donald Trump calls the actions of “corrupt social media companies”...

First real question: what's the case's name? The FOB doesn't put parties' names or anything else in its metadata, just a case number. But following the usual legal citation standards, I think this is pretty clearly In re Trump.
2021-05-06 View on X
Oversight Board

Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules

For Now Kari Paul / The Guardian : Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board Donald J. Trump : Donald Trump calls the actions of “corrupt social media companies”...

Observation: the FOB doesn't use a page <title> specific to each decision. You'd think a Facebook-established organization would be better at SEO. https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-06 View on X
Oversight Board

Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules

For Now Kari Paul / The Guardian : Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board Donald J. Trump : Donald Trump calls the actions of “corrupt social media companies”...

Are tweets by @OversightBoard approved by a majority of the Board? Because this is not an accurate summary of the relevant portion of its decision today and it editorializes in a way that the decision does not. https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-06 View on X
New York Times

Nick Clegg, who shaped Facebook's handling of Donald Trump, will lead the final decision-making process after the Oversight Board handed it back to Facebook

New York Times :

The FOB doesn't believe in indenting block quotes. I do! the FOB doesn't believe in title-casing section headings. I do! The FOB believes in italicizing block quotations. I don't! Really not a fan of the FOB's typographical choices here.
2021-05-06 View on X
New York Times

Nick Clegg, who shaped Facebook's handling of Donald Trump, will lead the final decision-making process after the Oversight Board handed it back to Facebook

New York Times :

First real question: what's the case's name? The FOB doesn't put parties' names or anything else in its metadata, just a case number. But following the usual legal citation standards, I think this is pretty clearly In re Trump.
2021-05-06 View on X
New York Times

Nick Clegg, who shaped Facebook's handling of Donald Trump, will lead the final decision-making process after the Oversight Board handed it back to Facebook

New York Times :

Observation: the FOB doesn't use a page <title> specific to each decision. You'd think a Facebook-established organization would be better at SEO. https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-06 View on X
New York Times

Nick Clegg, who shaped Facebook's handling of Donald Trump, will lead the final decision-making process after the Oversight Board handed it back to Facebook

New York Times :

The Facebook Oversight Board decision on Trump's account is out, which means it's time for me to edit this thing and kibbitz about the details. https://oversightboard.com/...
2021-05-06 View on X
New York Times

Nick Clegg, who shaped Facebook's handling of Donald Trump, will lead the final decision-making process after the Oversight Board handed it back to Facebook

New York Times :

2021-03-23
This @stratechery column is helpful, but if anything I don't think it goes far enough. Substack wants to be a platform, but its business niche looks more like magazine subscription and distribution, only easier to get into. https://stratechery.com/...
2021-03-23 View on X
Stratechery

The controversies around Substack miss the point that it is just a tool for sovereign writers, who are in control as they are paid directly by subscribers

Manage your Stratechery subscription.  —  There has been a bit of controversy around Substack over the last week … Tweets: @mohamed , @nbj914 , @paulconstant , @grimmelm , @susie_c...

2020-03-11
In which I argue that is no sharp dividing line between APIs and programming languages for copyright purposes. https://twitter.com/...
2020-03-11 View on X
Ars Technica

Ahead of this month's SCOTUS review of Oracle's 2010 Java copyright infringement case against Google, a look at how Oracle once got rich by copying IBM's SQL

Oracle's history highlights a possible downside to its stance on API copyrights.  —  More than a decade ago … Tweets: @newsycbot , @markcallaghandb , @grimmelm , and @binarybits Tw...

2019-10-30
In other words, Facebook is confident that it can tell who is a legitimate candidate but not what is true or false. This is not going to end well. (OTOH, any lawsuit against Facebook is a nonstarter under § 230.) https://twitter.com/...
2019-10-30 View on X
CNN

Activist registers as a candidate in California's 2022 gubernatorial election merely to run false Facebook ads, in a challenge to its controversial policy

someone WOULD register as a politician to run ads with misinformation. Zuckerberg said there was intent behind the policy, and FB would “evolve” if necessary. Now it's happened, an...

2018-04-09
Note that Facebook failed to discover this on its own. I.e, it wasn't willing to devote resources equivalent to one investigative reporting team to the problem. http://twitter.com/...
2018-04-09 View on X
CNBC

After CNBC inquiry, Facebook suspends CubeYou, a firm that made popular quiz apps for Cambridge University and bragged it had personal info of tens of millions

that Facebook can't police Apps that use fraudulent means to get Facebook users to divulge personal information — it's going to be a very long couple of days. http://twitter.com/.....