Tag: social media


  • Section 230 Gave Us Facebook. Now Facebook is Giving Us Fascism.

    Why banning surveillance advertising is the regulatory wedge that could actually work Picture Mark Zuckerberg sitting in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, April 10th 2018, looking like a confused android trying to process human emotion. For hours, senators lobbed questions at him. Some informed, most painfully not. Then Senator Orrin Hatch, 84 years old…

  • Unpopular opinion: I welcome the AI “slop”.

    The Internet’s been a landfill for decades. Now that robots are helping us shovel, suddenly everyone’s a damn art critic? Welcome to the Series Where I Say the Quiet Parts Out Loud Look, I’ve never been what you’d call a consensus guy. I tend to zag when others zig. Or more accurately: I throw a…