Pluralistic: 22 Aug 2022 Gmail will call the cops on you based on the content of your emails

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Google falsely told the police that a father was a molesting his son: Filternets fail.
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Amazon's new employee chat app blocks "fairness," "grievance" and "diversity": "Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?"
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The new DRM-breaking exemptions just dropped: But here's the bad news…
All of science gets a general index: For your text-mining pleasure, courtesy of Carl Malamud and Public Resource.
Europe's trustbusters lose the plot: Filternet, made in Europe.
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Scammers recycled covid nose-swabs: Indonesia had 1.6m infections and these supervillains helped export them.
Ed-tech apps spy on kids: Disciplinary Technology, SDKs, censorware, and education.
NY AG attributes Net Neutrality fraud to telcos: 18 million fraudulent comments filed in the FCC docket.
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Zuckerpunch: Don't trust Mark Zuckerberg to solve the Facebook problem.
Good news about news co-ops: Save journalism, not media monopolies.
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Crooked cops play music to kill livestreams: Beverly Hills Police Department Sergeant Billy Fair blasting Sublime's Santeria.
Duke is academia's meanest trademark bully: Empirically speaking, that is.
Tory donors reap 100X return on campaign contributions: Stochastic corruption.
A criminal enterprise with a country attached: Ladies and Gentlebeings, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
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Youtube, fair use, competition, and the death of the artist: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Carbon offsets are bullshit: And the "Nature" "Conservancy" is neither.
Outgoing Facebookers blast the company: "Embarrassing to work here."
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Save video game history: The MADE needs help to mothball for two years.
Life as a precriminal: 1,000 people in Pasco County, Florida are harassed day and night as part of a predictive policing tool.
Qanon is basically the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: It's a recycling program for nutjob racists.
EFF vs filternet: Comments to the EU on Article 17.
America's pandemic spiral: 9 awful things. How many do you recognize?
Security Engineering, 3d edition: Anderson's revenge!
Alexa for landlords: Unauthorized Bread was not a pitch-deck.
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Canadian judge invalidates Safe Third Country Agreement: Asylum seekers are not safe in America.
Supreme Court poised to destroy machine learning security research: Why the CFAA should be narrowly interpreted.
Where Will Everyone Go: Modelling the climate emergency's migration emergency.
BLM footage censored by copyright bots: Background music makes it impossible to post human rights violations to social media.
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Youtube is automatically blocking criticism of the Chinese Communist Party: Filternet error, working as intended.
Facebook shelved research that showed they were sowing division: Sort by controversial.
Hertz's bankruptcy was caused by private equity looting: It was debt, not pandemic.
West Virginia's governor Jim Justice: billionaire, deadbeat: It's only theft if you're poor.
Twitter's porn filters are dampening discussions of "cumgate": Dominic Cummings, unofficial mayor of Scunthorpe.
Understanding Bayesian reasoning: Stats for self-defense.
Ammosexuals point their guns at their crotches: Musketfuckers gonna musketfuck.
How to pay artists while fighting censorship and Big Tech: The internet needs blanket licenses.
The Toronto Star's new owners donated to far-right Tories: Canada's largest newspaper is now in the tank for plutes and white nationalists.
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