Ed Johnson-Williams @_edjw@mastodon.social
Digital rights campaigner @openrightsgroup
Please stop spreading the rumor that mastodon admins could be held personally liable for images that get automatically federated. In the US, the CDA specifically prohibits this.
"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider".
Propagating this misinformation has caused many admins to make hasty decisions, to the detriment of the entire fediverse. Please don't do this
New York Times reporter Natasha Singer is out with her 2nd piece in her series on "Education Disrupted." This piece - "The Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America’s Schools" - raises important questions re: the checks and balances absent in the current push to use technologies in schools.
If you work in education (or have a kid in school), it's well worth the read: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/technology/tech-billionaires-education-zuckerberg-facebook-hastings.html
This post by John Gruber (citing Dave Winer) about why Facebook is so problematic, is great:
Can someone plz plz make something rly accessible that fulfills the needs Facebook Events fill w/o the attachment to Facebook so everyone will stop exclusively promoting events via Facebook
Great episode of Reply All showing how easy it is to get phished: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/97-what-kind-of-idiot-gets-phished/
Since I'm new here I ought to say hi properly. I'm a co-founder of a #coop media project called The Ferret based in #Scotland.
You can find out more about The Ferret here: https://theferret.scot/about
We've currently got about 560 paying members, no ads, and we're currently crowdfunding for our next big investigation :)
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-ferret-investigates-housing-homelessness#/
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And I definitely don't want to replace bookmarking links with a list of saved content in Pocket.
Don't really agree with this ad for Pocket on the #Firefox start page. Pocket isn't *better* than bookmarks. Bookmarking links and saving content are just different things.
"Therese May to create new internet that would be controlled and regulated by government" https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/theresa-may-internet-conservatives-government-a7744176.html
vote 👏
the tories 👏
out.
Social media and mental health Show more
Why This Man Is Risking Jail by Refusing to Surrender Passwords at a London Airport https://gizmodo.com/why-this-man-is-risking-jail-by-refusing-to-surrender-p-1795272517
A deputy police and crime commissioner in Cambridgeshire has resigned after being accused of deceiving a 19-year-old woman into a sexual relationship while he was an undercover officer in the 1990s.
Who are your favorite Community Coordinators and why?
Also, what are the worst mistakes you've seen Community Coordinators make?
There are lots more good and beneficial use cases that need copyright exceptions to be legal
“There is no evidence of the need for new exceptions to copyright." says the UK music industry body.
That means they think there's no evidence that people might ever want to:
* make a parody
* make a backup
* transform a work to make it accessible for disabled people
* run text mining analysis
https://torrentfreak.com/hold-isps-responsible-for-piracy-after-brexit-music-biz-says-170512
The UK government aims to ban encryption via a covert regulation outside Parliament. Please support the Open Rights Group; without them you probably wouldn't know until it was too late.
https://openrightsgroup.org/join
"What the Kindle does behind the scenes" https://medium.com/@jiminypan/what-kindle-does-behind-the-scenes-3d1be22efce3
The process Amazon uses to create modern ebooks is mind-boggling and about as anti-web as I can imagine any single piece of tech being that is still web-based in its source material.
Yay, this toot was published with the new #Mastodon scheduler (http://scheduler.mastodon.tools/) ! cc-@Gargron
