The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But as critics are discovering, the law is giving Proctorio an unexpected advantage, allowing the company to shut down criticisms by appealing to copyright law. +. But Linkletter has his own issues with Proctorio as well. I don’t think people are hearing the concerns.”.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 29, 2022

Folks on Reddit have some thoughts. Along those same lines, using a VPN to unblock streaming services like Netflix from a country where it's not available isn't technically against the law, but it is a violation of the company's terms of use — i.e., you may get slapped with a warning or error message if caught. Customer support.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

The company has promoted encrypted messaging across its ecosystem, encouraged limits on how mobile apps can gather data, and fought law enforcement agencies looking for user records. Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and many other companies scan users’ files against hash libraries, often using a Microsoft-built tool called PhotoDNA.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

It’s your car watching your every move to make your travel safe and efficient; it’s cameras on traffic lights and road-bed sensors watching your car’s every move to see that it obeys the laws. I see the grand wave of IoT and Big Data combining to generate the copyright issue for the ages.

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The AI Mirror by DALL-E 3/OpenAI.com/DALLE Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? AI is not inherently a tool that must be used to consolidate wealth and power. Its our current regulatory and legal failings that allow that to happen.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It also offers an opportunity to examine those issues from a bit of distance to see if there are any broader takeaways for the community at large. Atrium, a 100-person legal tech startup founded by Justin Kan, shut down in March after failing to find an efficient way to replace the arduous systems of law firms. HubHaus (2016-2020).

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AUGUST 24, 2023

One Reddit user claims that, given a budget of $100 to spend within a server instance, Auto-GPT made a wiki page on cats, exploited a flaw in the instance to gain admin-level access and took over the Python environment in which it was running — and then “killed” itself. Are there issues regarding plagiarism with ChatGPT?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Further reading: Reddit bans anti-vaccine subreddit r/NoNewNormal after site-wide protest. Apple and Google must allow developers to use other payment systems, new Korean law declares. The next Apple Watch may be delayed due to manufacturing issues. Apple will ask before it targets you with its ads in iOS 15.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Based on what users on platforms like X and Reddit have shared, it appears that ​​Gemini 2.0 Reddit However, for photographers and other artists, this is certainly a concerning use of the tool, at least until Google puts some guardrails on the AI image generation feature. Flash doesn't just remove the watermark.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

On a Reddit thread, a number of 23andMe customers said they are having trouble actually deleting their data. Reddit user jacmrose complained, “tried canceling and never got the email they are supposed to send to confirm.” And they’re taking to social media to air their complaints.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

Mark's unbearable brother-in-law Ricken (Michael Chernus) is shown using a generic Android-style device in Season 1, and we've also seen Mark wielding a similar gadget. One Season 1 screenshot shared on Reddit even reveals that the story takes place in the town of Kier, PE.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Under Swiss law, such requests can't proceed without a court order.). There was one time Reddit asked me to tick a box to verify that I wasn't a bot (my server was probably on the fuller side), but otherwise it was like the VPN wasn't there. However, Proton VPN couldn't comply with the request because it didn't have any logs.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

Friends and sources criticize journalists for scapegoating them for larger issues — blaming Facebook alone for the election of Donald Trump, for example. And journalists often wind up criticizing tech companies from both sides of an issue — complaining that they both leave up too many bad posts and take down too many good ones, for example.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Communities across Reddit and 4chan tapped the AI system to generate realistic and anime-style images of nude characters, mostly women, as well as non-consensual fake nude imagery of celebrities. “We strictly allow only fictional and law-abiding generations, for both SFW and NSFW on our Discord server,” he said.

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

Should Reddit pay its volunteer moderators? Reddit’s content moderation scheme differs sharply from the Facebook News Feed or the Twitter timeline. But the moderators themselves often become collateral damage, Reddit executives said. “To If that’s the case, isn’t the least Reddit could do to pay these moderators?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

workplace antidiscrimination laws that has undergone tumultuous change since President Donald Trump took office. ” In it, Ortiz questioned Lucas’s fitness to serve as acting chair, “much less hold a license to practice law.” “I will not compromise my ethics and my duty to uphold the law.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

None of these are issues a tech platform can solve. The story, by Maxwell Tani and Spencer Ackerman, recounts a controversy that broke out inside the company when one of its 50,000 employees posted a short essay to its internal Workplace forum titled “In Support of Law Enforcement and Black Lives.” Between March 1 and Aug.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2021

A quarter of the deep links in The New York Times’ articles are now rotten, leading to completely inaccessible pages, according to a team of researchers from Harvard Law School, who worked with the Times ’ digital team. There would be countless Reddit threads and tweet replies that would no longer make sense to future readers.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

Two, Twitter was slow to respond to the threat, which persisted well beyond the company’s initial comments that it was taking the issue seriously. But the ham-fisted approach to resolving the issue — banning a huge portion of 359,000 verified accounts — reflects the staggering scale of the breach. Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET).

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

passed its sell-or-ban law last year due to security concerns. Interest is high for the popular short-form video platform and includes heavy hitters like Oracle, Mr. Beast, Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary, Microsoft, and Project Liberty, a group led by former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

Anyway, along with the other big tech platforms, Facebook is currently involved in a bunch of regulatory fights over privacy and competition issues. Reddit named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board of directors. about the popularity of Facebook or Instagram content or assets. about the purpose of an audience or community.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology. The movement has also found to be active on Twitter, Discord, and Reddit, among other social sites.)

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

TikTok says NBA content may not have appeared in those searches due to issues with language and localization, but were not actively removed from the platform.) Clubhouse has just two full-time employees; is this really the time to beat them up over trust and safety issues? Stylistically, they’re laws. The Hill ).

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Global Giving

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A brief flurry of social media activity followed, with some offering the view that repealing this law would likely have the effect of turning social media giants into political censors. The history and importance of the law has been described elsewhere; Casey Newton of Platformer and formerly of the Verge did a particularly great job.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

The antitrust committee is expected to issue a report with recommendations for legislation, and legislation seems like to follow. European regulators are drafting new laws aimed a curbing the power of the big tech companies in a way that previously regulations have not. Black Reddit moderators say hate speech and abuse are the norm.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

A company that has done this with some success is Reddit, which sets a “floor” of speech rules (no spam!) Six years ago, for example, Reddit’s laissez-faire attitude toward moderation led a lot of people to post stolen nude photos on the site without the subjects’ consent. Reddit issued such a statement last week.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

There are good reasons to be skeptical about the data issue, as Ben Thompson laid out this week at Stratechery. Also: more than 650 subreddits have now signed on to this open letter to Reddit calling for the company to, among other things, enact a site-wide policy against racism and hate speech. There are two problems here,” he wrote.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

YouTube may have removed some of their videos after the change, but it doesn’t retroactively issue strikes, on fairness grounds. Law enforcement officials say the group’s adherents used Facebook to plan the murder of a federal agent. Reddit bans The_Donald. And so it took a year for the white supremacists to strike out.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

It was a big news day for bans: Twitch temporarily banned Donald Trump , Reddit banned The_Donald , YouTube banned a group of far-right creators , and India banned TikTok. Maybe your reaction is that’s terrible, we should get rid of the law that makes all that posting possible. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

And while sometimes these outside consulting projects approach the client with kid gloves, lead auditor Laura Murphy and her team at the law firm Relman Colfax delivered an 89-page assessment of Facebook’s policies around voter suppression, hate speech, algorithmic bias, and content moderation that is measured but often unsparing.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

The prospect of a fight with states over labor issues comes in addition to similar questions the company has faced in France, where courts required it to close warehouses last month amid complaints the company had not done enough to protect workers. Is there anything Amazon would like to change amid the pandemic? Makena Kelly / The Verge ).

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

And the other is my worry that asking Facebook to solve for divisiveness could distract from the related but distinct issues around the viral promotion of conspiracies, misinformation, and hate speech. And whatever Trump may think, as the law professor Kate Klonick noted , “The First Amendment protects Twitter from Trump.

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