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"Whining about stuff is a treasured American pastime, so allow me to indulge: the iPhone is more fun in Europe now, and it’s not fair. They’re getting all kinds of stuff because they have cool regulators, not like, regular regulators." theverge.com/2024/8/24/2422… via @Verge

100% Julia Angwin: "Opening Google search data to competitors is not a new idea. ... 'Open access' [in broadband] required some cable and telephone companies to allow competitors to use their lines to provide internet service." nytimes.com/2024/08/27/opi…

"University administrations have taken additional steps to handle the volume of disciplinary cases, such as hiring outside consultants and implementing new policies in an attempt to prevent protests of the same scale" theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

"The percentage of Black students entering Amherst this fall dropped to 3% from 11% last year, and at Tufts, it dropped to 4.7 percent from 7.3 percent. Black students at the University of Virginia declined to 7 percent compared to 7.9 percent last year." nytimes.com/2024/08/30/us/…

Releasing "Reagan" on Labor Day weekend ranks among the most offensive marketing decisions ever.

Bummer. dailyevergreen.com/179284/news/km… via The Daily Evergreen

Easy solution: Restructure as a public nonprofit governed by the creators whose content it steals

"the largest single-year increase in wireless data consumption" reuters.com/technology/ame…

"It seems very clear that they’re setting up a case to point to where students have violated something" nytimes.com/2024/09/12/us/…

"The court found Facebook did not regularly review the privacy policies of third-party apps beyond verifying they had a working hyperlink in their data agreement." Platform governance ain't a free for all. jurist.org/news/?p=257164

Imagine the impact on smaller news orgs. "The publisher estimated that around $9 million was exclusive to Google and would be lost in any shift to another product. Around 70-80% of News Corp ad transactions flowed through Google's ad exchanges" reuters.com/technology/new…

Morning must-read by Christopher Ali: "The fear is that [private equity firms] will replicate their short-term, profit-prioritizing strategy on ISPs: gutting local services, firing local staff, and forgoing local upgrades." lpeproject.org/blog/the-frigh…

"The booming demand for electricity has forced tech giants to withdraw from their publicized commitments to slash their greenhouse gas emissions. The energy demand shock has already undermined climate change initiatives." promarket.org/2024/09/12/the… via ProMarket

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In case anyone is tempted to overstate the effects of the policy "techlash," this FTC study looks good. Sobering conclusion echoing decades of academic research: “Self-regulation has been a failure" nytimes.com/2024/09/19/tec…

🤣🤣🤣"the company had done exactly what Mr. Musk vowed not to: take down accounts that a Brazilian justice ordered removed. X also complied with the justice’s other demands, including paying fines and naming a new formal representative in the country." nytimes.com/2024/09/21/wor…

Ten thousand books. "More than 10,000 books were banned in US public schools from 2023 to 2024, according to a report, marking a stark increase over the year before as Republican-led states pass new censorship laws." theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s…

"The technology, which Amazon is calling Vision Assisted Package Retrieval, works by shining a green light on packages so that the deliverer does not have to waste precious seconds reading labels." reuters.com/technology/ama…

Some great research I'm happy to be part of Murrow College WSU that's pushing the envelope methodologically and aiming to make a significant impact on the policy debates about addressing the journalism crisis in WA state and beyond

OK last one. RIP Bezos's Readiness to Stand up Against Political Pressure - 2013-2024. You left us too young. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…