Category: politics
The Pandemic Is Ending, And The Optimized, Ever-Distant Future Is Probably Coming Back
In out of the darkness of the pandemic, you can feel the future coming back, in the relative calculations of people’s lives. The all-encompassing nature of the pandemic subtracted the future for at least a year. And not just in the literal way, in which weddings got displaced and the…
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Democrats And Republicans Alike Are Talking About Breaking Down Big Tech Monopolies
WASHINGTON — There’s a growing bipartisan appetite in Congress to crack down on big tech, with progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans preparing to flex the federal government’s anti-monopoly powers. The Senate began hearings this week on antitrust law. Senators expressed different philosophies and concerns, but they all agreed on at…
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Big Tech critic and net neutrality advocate Tim Wu is joining the White House
The man who coined net neutrality is heading back to work for the government. President Joe Biden has appointed Columbia law professor Tim Wu to the White House's National Economic Council. According to The New York Times, he'll serve as a sp… Source
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House Democrats ask YouTube to explain extremism policies
House Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee are again pushing YouTube to explain its policies around extremist content. In a letter sent to Google CEO Sundar Pichai Wednesday, the committee leaders said that “incendiary content that indoctri… Source
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FAA ends investigations into SpaceX’s recent Starship launches
The regulatory drama around SpaceX's recent Starship launches has simmered down. CNN's Jackie Wattles and The Verge have learned that the FAA ended its investigations into the SN8 and SN9 launches. SpaceX and the FAA "settled" conce… Source
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Facebook experiments with reducing News Feed political content for some
Facebook is taking a new approach to political content: Showing less of it. The company announced today that it will experiment with reducing News Feed entries about politics for a small portion of users in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia this week, and… Source
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