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I would recommend anyone planning to have an opinion on Google and Facebook in Australia actually read the government’s explanation of the proposed law. Some observations. 1 /https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/ems/r
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Thinking about some recent twitter conversations questions... what problem are you trying to solve? Do you worry a lot about privacy? Most of your solutions displace ad revenue into Google
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So many interesting questions around ‘targeted adverting’ - starting with terminology. Car ads in a car magazine are ‘targeted advertising’, as are gadget ads in Wires. So what *exactly* are
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Some ideas in social are packets that can live in lots of different kinds of networks. Stories don't have to be in Snapchat to make sense. But sometimes the network
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IMO, the move by Apple and Google to remove Parler from their stores is I think much more significant than Facebook and Twitter’s bans, and the move by AWS and
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While the USA keeps arguing about section 230, the EU just launched the DSA. This creates binding content take-down liabilities for big platforms. And when it becomes law, in 2-3
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Dos this prove Twitter and Facebook are ’publishers’, not ‘platforms’? Neither. You might as well ask if radio is a book or a newspaper. It’s neither - it’s radio. Facebook
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This reminds me of the developer who made a fortune by having the first Tetris clone in the App Store, in 2008. In every new, empty channel, the first people
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Idly occurs to me that Substack, Shopify and Amazon are all points in the same problem...A small, curated store is easy to browse, but how do you know the store
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I joke sometimes that the great thing about tech monopolies is how many there are to choose from, but it's actually a real theoretical problem. How does competition theory and
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Is it written into American law that when you’re describing really boring anti-trust cases you have to write half a dozen pages of purple prose as though you’re pitching to
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I can't believe how much time people wasted talking about chatbots and voice assistants. Always important in tech to distinguish between what *might* happen and what *can't* happen - "is
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