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Biden appoints Jessica Rosenworcel as acting FCC chair - The Verge, https://t.co/Z0aTxKsvpe - Excellent choice.

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Biden names Slaughter to lead FTC, Rosenworcel to chair FCC - The Washington Post, https://t.co/ZnlBkJFF3J - Bad news for Big Tech: Slaughter has supported enforcement even as she has joined the FTC’s fiercest critics in saying th

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Referring Former President Trump’s Suspension From Facebook to the Oversight Board - About Facebook, https://t.co/Zk5MbBKf9f - The Oversight Board was designed for this: Today, Facebook is referring its decision to indefini

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Update: youtube-dl reinstantiated thanks to EFF - TheAssassin's blog, https://t.co/vQjKF1A0Mk - It looks like the free software community should prepare themselves better in the future. We should develop better tools to back up our metadata, a

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Cory Doctorow on the Deplatforming of the (former) President, https://t.co/HbmOVkOywp - "While failing to enforce antitrust law doesn't violate the First Amendment, it can still lead to government sanctioned incursions on spe

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Scoop: Google is investigating the actions of another top AI ethicist - Axios, https://t.co/jmAh46IMCD - According to a source, Mitchell had been using automated scripts t

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Biden SEC pick is no stranger to crypto industry - Axios, https://t.co/Do106cwuJ3 - “He is a very smart and thoughtful person, and for the past few years, he has steeped himself in crypto, so he is ve

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Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources | Reuters, https://t.co/D8z1d9n1WN - The tech giant’s reversal,

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Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo, Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski | Engadget, https://t.co/mJHZcaU5Gd

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Biden Peloton Raises Security Risks - The New York Times, https://t.co/Paunpy4jY2 - Peloton tablets have built-in cameras and microphones that allow users to see and hear one another if they choose, and for Mr. Biden, therein lies the rub

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The Complete List of Trump’s Twitter Insults (2015-2021) - The New York Times, https://t.co/r84lhPsxBW -

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Brave becomes first browser to add native support for the IPFS protocol | ZDNet, https://t.co/OSl0MBWB8I - Since some major websites like Wikipedia have IPFS versions, users in oppressive countries can

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Netflix’s ‘Shuffle Play’ feature will roll out to all users worldwide this year | TechCrunch, https://t.co/YZSwkjBgUJ - Shuffle Play puts a big button right on the Netflix home screen, beneath

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Turkey slaps ad ban on Twitter under new social media law | Reuters, https://t.co/yNmUmV9m3y - Deputy Transport Minister Omer Fatih Sayan said Twitter and Pinterest’s bandwidth would be cut by 50% in April and by 90% in May. Twitter said la

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CleanShot X for Mac, https://t.co/R9JrSapksA - Leo's pick for 1/19/21: A better screenshot and screen recording tool with M1 support. $29

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GitHub admits ‘significant mistakes were made’ in firing of Jewish employee - The Verge, https://t.co/QiWphkR09U - GitHub is admitting that a Jewish employee wa

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I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users and my head is spinning | ZDNet, https://t.co/jYSDxidhMT - The problem with Teams privacy is not how much it's transmitting to Microsoft, it'