If the RESTRICT ACT (“Tiktok ban”) passes, it will be used to attempt a ban on #bitcoin.
Have any of y’all actually read the text of the bill?
This isn’t about Tiktok. This gives the executive branch total control to police the internet.
Wake up.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The only solution is taking platforms out of the moderation game. The content-layer of the internet should be moved to neutral protocols.
*You* should be the one who decides what you can read. Not a company. Not a government.
GPT4 will be out soon and will probably cause a similar economic shock to one from Covid. Instant distribution with nearly instant adoption and nearly instant productivity increase for hundreds of millions of knowledge workers. Brace yourselves, 2023 is coming
He knows when you've been sleeping. He knows when you're awake.
He knows this because your pattern-of-life can be inferred by looking at records of your phone's basic internet activity—called "metadata." This is the core of modern mass surveillance.
He should be in jail.
Fortnite and Epic Games will have to pay an unprecedented $520 million in relief funds after the FTC found them guilty of tricking users into making purchases, collecting data from children without parents consent, and having default settings that harmed both children and teens
Epic Games is paying $520M in relief funds because the FTC found them guilty of tricking users into purchasing items
This is important news for the blockchain gaming space to understand the existing regulatory stance on Web2 games
It is very odd that people (cough, @tedlieu) think the FBI/DHS relationship with Twitter and other platforms is a partisan story. It’s taken place and grown under both Republican and Democratic administrations. This concerns everyone.
@Fiskantes Society has become mentally handicapped by the powers that be over the last couple thousand years. Controlling the public is much easier than raising the average standards.
Adults are at times farther from comprehending the world than children. Children have yet to educated, but remain open to learning, while adults have often been 𝘮𝘪𝘴-educated, and so jealously guard the granite of their preconception from being cracked by a contrary truth.