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I agree, but is a ratio the best number? I remember serving as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and had to quantify artistic merit. He does suggest that comments per post is also another metric of quality. I find it very hard to measure quality with numbers. which is very hard to so.
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The Trump administration is “looking at” a lot of things, and many previous insane-sounding proposals have come and gone without ever being enacted. And after Hong Kong passed a new national security law giving vast new surveillance powers to the Chinese Communist Party, TikTok led all social networks in pulling the app from Hong Kong.
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Here’s Chaim Gartenberg at The Verge : Amazon has requested that Congress pass a law that would make price gouging illegal during times of national crisis, in light of inflated prices on crucial goods like hand sanitizer and N95 masks that have hounded the online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep.
I thought of Peter this week while reading about a proposed new lawsuit filed on behalf of workers like him. The company is prompting every person in the United States to register to vote Tuesday, which was National Voter Registration Day. “After that, you feel like wow, this world is really crazy. This makes you feel ill. Governing.
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as part of that country’s debate over proposed online-harm legislation, would “require platform companies to ensure that their algorithms do not skew toward extreme and unreliable material to boost user engagement.” One, which has been considered in the U.K. Moscow Mitch will continue to have to take his lumps. Todd Haselton / CNBC).
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I’m also worried that with our nation so divided and election results potentially taking days or even weeks to be finalized, there could be an increased risk of civil unrest across the country.”. But the proposed change has caused panic among marketers and developers that rely on targeted ads to reach consumers.
would collect compensation from the sale of TikTok, forced by the president’s orders last month that the popular video streaming app represents a national security threat because its parent company is Chinese. [.]. My thoughts on this subject track pretty closely with Ben Thompson, who called the proposed law a shakedown. Facebook).
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I particularly liked this proposed question, about Amazon: In a five-week period during the pandemic, your firm added the value of the world’s largest firm by revenue — Walmart. I’d still rather have a truly competitive domestic market for social apps than a monopolistic national champion waging battle on America’s behalf, though.
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Congress may begin writing letters , and new laws will be proposed, so that such a bad post never again appears on the internet. On Sunday, the Republican National Committee sued California Gov. Facebook , Twitter , and Google all pushed back against the proposed panel, denying any anticonservative bias. Amnesty International).
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We had leadership with the National Basketball Players Association, the NBPA. You’re proposing, and I’ve heard this from Roger in the past as well, you’re proposing if you amplify it, you make it bigger than it could have been on its own. It’s being decimated, but there’s still only three national carriers.
The second thing to say about “polarization” is that while it has a lot of negative effects, it’s worth thinking about what your proposed alternative to it would be. Is it national unity? One-party rule? Or just everyone being more polite to one another? And it will be all over Twitter.
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