It’s very frustrating because you have to work hard to avoid having it pushed on you.
Tag: the internet
Youtube allows ads that make a really great argument for the government to crack down on this stuff.
These bonkers eyeglasses commercials aren’t even the worst commercials I’ve seen on Youtube, but a lot of these ads are great arguments for government regulation that’s unfortunately not happening. Ever since I was getting new glasses recently, which involved a multiple trips to eye care over a couple of months in order to get it […]
Tea breach led to users having their ID verifications exposed right along with their DMs.
This is the kind of data breach that could happen when people have to upload ID documents to some social media platform.
Data Center hearing in the town of Archbald Pennsylvania drew a record number of constituents who were talked down to.
Multiple data centers proposed in Northeastern Pennsylvania are in or very near to Archbald Pennsylvania.
It’s good if the Jeffrey Epstein files debacle leads to more people learning about inauthentic persuasion on social media.
The split in MAGA over the Jeffrey Epstein Files issue has led to chatbot programmed troll farm accounts in a social media botnet to start putting out confusing and conflicting posts.
Check it out before you send a check – or cash app, or whatever.
Beware new exciting people bursting onto your internet scene with an uncanny amount in common with you…
Yes, shadowbanning is real.
It’s probably happening on all the platforms, and most people probably don’t even know it’s happening to them.
Stephen Miller behind a lawsuit for an anti-vax activist seeking to silence internet researchers.
“a remarkably unprecedented state of affairs like that is an astonishing breach of norms”
Net neutrality rules struck down by activist federal court that maybe doesn’t like the fact that presidents change at intervals???
The federal court wants to decide on this, and decided it doesn’t like “vacillations” that happen at the FCC because of… democratic elections.
The problem with going to social media for “information”.
Yes, this is something I hear about regularly, people saying how they’re relying on social media sources for “good information” and seeking it nowhere else.
Neera Tanden’s missteps and the disability justice information space.
A reputation that was never that great. Neera Tanden has been accused of Hatch Act violations while working at the White House. This embarrassment is not unexpected sadly. Government Executive – Senior White House official violated the Hatch Act, OSC says A filing with the Merit Systems Protection Board alleges that Biden’s domestic policy advisor […]
A ridiculous, useless, automated e-mail exchange
Obviously machines cannot replace humans in correspondence.
The Internet: Where reality & fantasy collide
Something I’ve always noticed about the internet is that there seems to be a huge sector of the population that has the mentality that what takes place on-line is not “real life”. And if it’s not real life, I suppose they see it as some kind of fantasy world.