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Jan Gerlach
@pd_w
Law & Internet: internet-regulation.org ¦
@wikimediapolicy
but tweets my own. ¦ I used to play music as PD Williams. ¦ I ride big mountains and small waves.
Switzerlandsoundcloud.com/pd-williamsJoined July 2008
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Yale ISP - WIII
@YaleISP_WIII
Join us on Dec 2 for a conversation with Suresh Venkatasubramanian
@geomblog
! Registration info below
@yaleisp
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Georgetown Law Tech Institute
@GtownTechLaw
Join us and @yaleisp @YaleISP_WIII Dec 2 10am ET for our AI Governance Series: A Conversation on the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. Featuring @geomblog and discussion with @mehtabkn and panelists @AnupamChander @nikenberger @arturpericles Register: tinyurl.com/33r97wxp
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Wikimedia Policy
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The
@FTC
requested feedback on its questions about rules to govern businesses' collection and use of personal data for profit. We answered "Rein in commercial surveillance," and recommended five of our key data protection and privacy practices to do so.
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Wikimedia Foundation Tells FTC to Rein in Commercial Surveillance
Written by the Wikimedia Foundation’s: Kate Ruane, Lead Public Policy Specialist for the United States; Ellen Magallanes, Senior Counsel…
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Marco-Alexander Breit
@Breitseiten
Insta sind Selbstgespräche vorm Spiegel, Mastodon die Granularisierung jeder Debatte, LinkedIn ein Businessnetzwerk ohne gesellschaftliche Breite, Facebook muss ich nix zu sagen. Ihr könnt es drehen u wenden wie ihr wollt. Derzeit ist #twitter als globales Netzwerk alternativlos.
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Folks, Laws intended to make the internet safer should not optimize for centralized content moderation only. That's how you end up with Zuck and Elno deciding about a profit-oriented version of free expression. UK lawmakers should protect Wikipedia:
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Wikimedia Policy
@wikimediapolicy
.@Wikimedia support efforts to make the internet safer. However, the UK Online Safety Bill threatens the Wikipedia community-driven content moderation model. We urge policymakers to amend the bill to protect safe and free access to online knowledge. medium.com/@wikimediapoli
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@pd_w
VCs tackling societal issues and rethinking nation states as engineering problems... 🫠
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☀️👀
@zei_squirrel
when billionaires like Jeff Bezos say they are going to "give away all their money to charity", it's a lie. What they mean is they will give the money to their own foundations, evade taxes, and keep control over it so as to retain power. Economist Thomas Piketty explains:
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Noun Project
@nounproject
"Bruno Munari used to remind people who said they 'could not draw' that they all learned how to draw letters in order to “write.” I think the same thing is warranted for graphic design. Repeat your ideas. They will get better." Read more from
@zmccune
:
blog.thenounproject.com
Creator Spotlight: Zack McCune, Director of Brand at Wikimedia Foundation - The Noun Project Blog
Creator and Wikimedia Brand Director Zack McCune designs unique icons which begin as rubber stamps featuring the rich details of world cultures.
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Wikimedia Foundation
@Wikimedia
Teachers who ask their students to edit
@Wikipedia
“are rendering old arguments against the crowdsourced website moot, enhancing their students’ digital literacy skills and broadening their educator roles from the classroom to society.” Via
@insidehighered
insidehighered.com
More professors now embrace Wikipedia in the classroom
Professors who incorporate Wikipedia-editing assignments into coursework enhance their students’ digital literacy skills while broadening their own roles—from educating college students to educating
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Casey Newton
@CaseyNewton
Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and the core infrastructure services that keep the site up and running. People inside are stunned.
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Oversight Board
@OversightBoard
Happening now 📢 Join
@nighatdad
,
@rmack
, and
@solomonbrett
and learn more about how new governance models should be considered to ensure a fair application of Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights online. ↓
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Framing freedom of speech in the digital age
Internet has radically expanded the scope of the public sphere by providing an unprecedented means for interacting across the globe. The traditional debate o...
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Jan Gerlach
@pd_w
In the context of keeping children safe online, governments and policymakers need to consider the unintended consequences of age-verification on public interest platforms that follow a principle of data-minimization such as
@Wikipedia
. -
@rmack
at #PPF22
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Jochen Breyer
@jochenbreyer
Weil das in der Doku nur am Rande vorkam: unseren Recherchen zufolge bekommt der
@FCBayern
pro Jahr 25 Mio. von QatarAirways. Uns wurde gesagt: ein „politischer Preis“ -rein wirtschaftlich eigentlich zu hoch, aber Katar verfolgt mit dem Deal pol. Ziele - und zahlt deshalb so viel
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Wikimedia Policy
@wikimediapolicy
📅Saturday, 13:45 EST @ #WikiConferenceNA Free event! Lawsuits & advocacy in the federal legislature are not enough to change the mass surveillance policies of the US government. Learn about effective grassroots tactics & community organizing from renowned activists. More🧵👇
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Wikipetitions
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Top story: @wikimediapolicy: '📢 Join us! Wiki Conference North America is starting this Friday, in partnership with @OpenStreetMapUS #WikiConferenceNA is free, online, and has a fascinating program. More in 🧵👇 ' , see more tweetedtimes.com/v/15613?s=tnp
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The New York Times
@nytimes
Official
Pfizer and BioNTech's new Covid booster is nearly four times as good as its predecessor at protecting against the currently dominant version of the virus for people over age 55, Pfizer said. Only about 8% of Americans age 5 and up have got the booster.
nytimes.com
New Booster Shot Targets Covid Variants More Effectively, Pfizer Says
Federal officials are hoping that encouraging new findings will spur more Americans to get an updated booster before a feared surge in coronavirus cases this winter.
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Rebecca MacKinnon
@rmack
My friend
@ethanz
suggests an alternative world with lots of internet platforms whose rules are set and enforced by the people who use them. Of course
@Wikipedia
editors have been doing that for over 2 decades!
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Prospect
@prospect_uk
Is social media like a newspaper or a telephone? The answer has big implications, writes Ethan Zuckerman @EthanZ #socialmedia #digital prospectmagazine.co.uk/science-and-te
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