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Paul Matzko

@pmatzko
11 posts
2023-03-22
Here are three bad motives (and one good one) behind the calls for a TikTok ban. 🧵
2023-03-22 View on X
Techdirt

Instead of myopically fixating on TikTok, the US should pass a real privacy law to regulate data brokers who sell info on US citizens to anyone, including China

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Rent-seeking behavior is as corrupting as it is natural, but we shouldn't ban TikTok to save companies like Facebook from more effective competition.
2023-03-22 View on X
Bloomberg

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce posts TikTok CEO Shou Chew's prepared testimony, outlining a ~$1.5B plan to host US data on Oracle servers and more

TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Chew plans to tell Congress his app does more to protect young users than rival social media platforms …

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FB hired a consulting megafirm to astroturf letters to the editor at 100s of newspapers to hype up a TikTok moral panic. The goal? “Dream would be to get stories with headlines like ‘From dances to danger.’” It's targeted misinformation on a massive scale. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-03-22 View on X
Bloomberg

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce posts TikTok CEO Shou Chew's prepared testimony, outlining a ~$1.5B plan to host US data on Oracle servers and more

TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Chew plans to tell Congress his app does more to protect young users than rival social media platforms …

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Here are three bad motives (and one good one) behind the calls for a TikTok ban. 🧵
2023-03-22 View on X
Bloomberg

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce posts TikTok CEO Shou Chew's prepared testimony, outlining a ~$1.5B plan to host US data on Oracle servers and more

TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Chew plans to tell Congress his app does more to protect young users than rival social media platforms …

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Rent-seeking behavior is as corrupting as it is natural, but we shouldn't ban TikTok to save companies like Facebook from more effective competition.
2023-03-22 View on X
Techdirt

Instead of myopically fixating on TikTok, the US should pass a real privacy law to regulate data brokers who sell info on US citizens to anyone, including China

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FB hired a consulting megafirm to astroturf letters to the editor at 100s of newspapers to hype up a TikTok moral panic. The goal? “Dream would be to get stories with headlines like ‘From dances to danger.’” It's targeted misinformation on a massive scale. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-03-22 View on X
Techdirt

Instead of myopically fixating on TikTok, the US should pass a real privacy law to regulate data brokers who sell info on US citizens to anyone, including China

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2023-01-03
The people saying that the Southwest collapse—caused by antiquated software from the 90s—means the feds should reregulate the airlines would do well to remember that the IRS is still using computers from the 60s.
2023-01-03 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Southwest Airlines' recent meltdown exposed an over-reliance on aging crew-assignment software SkySolver, forcing the company to return to manual scheduling

The airline industry is long overdue for a tech overhaul that takes full advantage of the cloud and data integration, analysts say

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2021-02-15
The New York Times article about SlateStarCodex is finally out and it is...bad. There's a lot I could parse, but let me just walk you through one paragraph that is so misleading as to be deceptive. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-02-15 View on X
Noahpinion

The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing

Stereotyping the tech industry as a bunch of secretive right-wingers isn't correct, and it isn't helpful.  —  11 hr ago

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The New York Times article about SlateStarCodex is finally out and it is...bad. There's a lot I could parse, but let me just walk you through one paragraph that is so misleading as to be deceptive. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-02-15 View on X
New York Times

Examining the links between the Rationalist community, with Slate Star Codex blog as its epicenter, and influential leaders in tech, including OpenAI's founders

even inside newsrooms. This is depraved. https://twitter.com/... Robin Hanson / @robinhanson : “The ideas they exchanged were often controversial — connected to gender, race and in...

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2021-02-14
The New York Times article about SlateStarCodex is finally out and it is...bad. There's a lot I could parse, but let me just walk you through one paragraph that is so misleading as to be deceptive. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-02-14 View on X
New York Times

Examining the links between the Rationalist community, with Slate Star Codex blog as its epicenter, and influential leaders in tech, including OpenAI's founders

Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future.  Then it disappeared.

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2020-08-15
Libertarians and free speech activists warned that the EU's “right to be forgotten” would quickly devolve into a way for the wealthy and well-connected to limit public scrutiny. This may be a particularly outrageous example but it's routine these days. https://www.vice.com/...
2020-08-15 View on X
VICE

Google removed ~200 links of a German princess' drunken rampage from its search results suggesting the rich and powerful have a superior “right to be forgotten”

Jordan Wildon / VICE : Tweets: @wongmjane , @vice , @iethics , @pmatzko , and @jessemangelo Tweets: Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane : Talking about Streisand Effect.. https://twitt...

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