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As much as I admire the techlash, I have some serious reservations. I worry that there's some pretty useful tech babies that we are at risk of throwing away with the bathwater.
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For starters, there's the idea of "intermediary liability," which is the degree to which online services are held liable for the harms their users inflict on each other. Lots of people want to make Meta, Google and other tech giants liable for their users' actions, such as harassment and disinformation. These people are doubtless well-intentioned, but *boy* have they failed to pay attention to what happens when we create these liability rules.
Historically, the most important intermediary liability law is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Despite the fact that this law is only 27 words long, it is among the most badly understood aspects of tech policy, worldwide:
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CDA 230 says that platforms aren't required to police their users' speech. If a user libels another user, or harasses them, or threatens them, that's between the users, who can sue each other, but not the platform (CDA 230 only relates to civil liability; it has no bearing on the ability of platforms to be held *criminally* liable for their users' actions).
Importantly, CDA 230 also says that if a platform *does* intervene to prevent one user from harming another, that doesn't mean they have to intervene in *every* such case. There's a good historical reason for this: back in the paleolithic era, Prodigy, a commercial online service, was sued after they stepped in to protect some users from other users' bad actions.
The suit argued that once they'd set the precedent that they were going to police user conduct, they acquired an obligation to police *every* instance of bad user conduct. In response, Prodigy - and its competitors - stopped moderating altogether:
No one who's used big online services would say that the CDA 230 world is a great one - but it's provably a vastly *better* world than the world we get when we take away 230's protections.
In 2018, Donald Trump signed SESTA/FOSTA into law. This is a (supposedly) narrow exception to CDA 230 that makes platforms civilly liable when they are used in connection with sex trafficking:
Obviously, sex trafficking is a terrible crime (and again, CDA 230 has never affected a platform's *criminal* liability for sex trafficking, only civil liability).
None of the people who spoke out against SESTA/FOSTA did so to protect sex traffickers.
Rather, the opposition to SESTA/FOSTA was motivated by concern over the collateral damage that would ensue, and those concerns have been *entirely* borne out. Opponents of SESTA/FOSTA predicted that platforms would be unable or unwilling to distinguish between consensual sex work and trafficking, and that they would simply sweep all consensual sex work off of their platforms.
That's *exactly* what happened. Not only did the spaces where sex workers advertised and booked their work disappear, but so did the private "bad date" forums where sex workers helped one another steer clear of dangerous clients. Sex work moved back into the streets, and with it came a revival of pimping - a scourge that had been all but killed off by the use of online platforms by sex workers to find work and stay safe:
To the extent that sex work survives online, it has been relegated to a few fringe services that have no competitors and exploit their captive audience of sex workers to rake in massive fees for sub-par services. Meanwhile, the forcible relocation of sex work from searchable, visible online spaces to the streets has made it significantly harder for law enforcement to detect and interdict actual sex trafficking:
That's the evidence for what happens when you make intermediaries liable for their users' conduct. Far from being a gift to Big Tech, protections from intermediary liability primarily benefit smaller online spaces, which can't afford the high compliance costs of spying on and controlling their users, unlike, say, Facebook, which is why Mark Zuckerberg wants to get rid of CDA 230:
SESTA/FOSTA isn't the only experimental evidence we have for what happens when we kill CDA 230-like protections. In the UK, the Online Safety Act imposes a duty on people who provide online speech forums to monitor and police their users' words.
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The immediate effect of this was to kill off many small business and hobbyist forums. Now, even large, multinational corporations are killing off their forums and relocating them to Facebook, where there's the budget and resources to conduct the surveillance and control required by the Act:
Every little website is being pushed onto Facebook thanks to the computer illiterate duckheads in UK Parliament. We'll played MPs, people are much more vulnerable on Facebook you cuckwombles 🤬
Fundamentally, the lesson here is that we can't fix Big Tech by making it use its power more wisely - the only way to fix Big Tech is to get rid of it, to make it smaller, to take away its power.
That's a lesson we keep missing. Take age verification laws: these require all online forums to exercise total control over their users, because they require platforms to know who a user is, to associate that user with every interaction, and, finally, to verify the user's age.
But you can't verify a user's age unless you know which user is at the other end of an online connection. This affects *every* user, not just kids, because the only way to prove you're an adult is to prove that you're not a kid.
Age verification and intermediary liability are measures that are diametrically opposed to the mission of making Big Tech weaker. These measures only work if Big Tech stays all-powerful, and they devastate independent online alternatives to Big Tech.
What's more, they cut directly against efforts to make it easier for users to leave Big Tech, through interoperable gateways that make it possible for users who depart an online platform to stay in touch with the people who stay behind:
These interoperability mandates figure heavily in modern anti-Big Tech laws like the EU's DMA and DSA, but they cannot peacefully coexist with stricter liabilty and age verification rules.
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A platform simply cannot identify, monitor and control users *and* allow users to leave their platform while maintaining contact with their friends who stay.
These efforts to force Big Tech to behave don't just undermine interoperability mandates, they also kill off "adversarial interoperability," the principle that a user of a technology should be allowed to reverse-engineer and modify it, for example, to block ads or tracking, to sideload apps or extract their data or to monitor a platform's moderation failures:
“Interoperability” is the act of making a new product or service work with an existing product or service: modern civilization depends on the standards and practices that allow you to put any dish into a dishwasher or any USB charger into any car’s c…
When Big Tech does adversarial interoperability, they call it "move fast and break things," and that's another baby the techlash stands ready to throw out with the bathwater. There's nothing wrong *per se* with a technologist changing how a device or service works without permission from its maker. Every ad-blocker does that. So do accountability tools that scrape Facebook to document its failures to police paid political disinformation:
Moving fast and breaking things is fine, depending on whose things you're breaking. For example, I want every Tesla owner to be able to walk into any mechanic's shop and unlock all the subscription features and software upgrades, without paying a dime to Elon Musk:
And I want every person who uses a powered wheelchair to be able to alter its handling characteristics and other digital features without waiting months and paying through the nose to one of two private-equity backed duopolists:
During Disability Employee Awareness month, we call out the medical tech industry for fighting disabled people's right to repair or modify the tech that they own.
Think of how they're force-feeding us AI (and how nice it would be to subscribe to a service run by adversarial interoperators who would automatically block every accursed AI popup in every app and service and device you use):
Or, more prosaically, how much mobile phone design has congealed around a monolithic design that has no room for a clicky little keyboard - something I first saw demoed *23 years ago*:
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It turns out that we don't have to take that shit lying down. Like Prometheus, we can steal our clicky keyboards and 3mm headphone jacks back from the tech gods. That's exactly what the Q25 Pro does: it's a mobile phone that is built inside the housing of a Research in Motion Blackberry Classic Q20, with a modern processor and camera, and a recent version of Android:
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It's a project from Zinwa Technologies, led by a young Chinese hacker named Zinwa who explained the gadget's design in detail on a recent installment of Returning Retro:
Zinwa explains how he grew up with Blackberries (and also Chinese clones of Blackberries) and never learned to enjoy a modern distraction rectangle. So, as all good hackers do when they get an itch, he *scratched it*.
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He realized that there was an essentially infinite supply of old Blackberry housings sitting around in drawers or making their slow, inexorable way to an e-waste dump, where they would leach out poisonous ooze forever, and that, rather than spending $200K+ to design a chassis for a new phone, he could just create a motherboard around a modern processor with a recent-model screen, all sized to occupy exactly the same space that the original Q20 board fit in.
The new device supports 4G/LTE networks and Android 13. It has an SD card slot, USB C, and NFC on-board, as well as the classic Blackberry keyboard and yes, a 3mm headphone jack. Zinwa is launching with a small batch of conversion kits for hardware hackers who want to try their hand at a retro-restoration, with fully assembled units to follow.
Mostafa, who sent me a tip about this project, writes:
> After using [a Blackberry-like phone] for 3 years now, the form-factor is *perfect* for healthy phone usage habits. I’ve found the physical keyboard/small screen combo to be an optimal solution to the problem having a simultaneously infinitely useful tool/infinitely novel toy in your pocket at all times - maximize the tool factor, minimize the toy. This concept has spawned a rich community around it.
The point here isn't merely that Zinwa is doing something very cool that meets the needs of a group of people who Big Tech doesn't give a shit about (though he is doing that): it's that *anyone* should be able to do this to *any* technology.
That includes Zinwa's Q25: in his interview with Returning Retro, Zinwa waffles a little about whether the Q25 will have an open bootloader, which would allow other hackers to replace the OS with one that's been modded to their heart's delight. Whether or not you get to modify the tech you use to suit you better has nothing to do with whether it came from someone with good or bad intentions.
You should have that right, no matter what, because it's your technology and you should be in charge of it.
This is the spirit of small tech: tech that communities bend to suit their needs. Just as CDA 230 primarily benefits small groups who are underserved or abused by Big Tech, the right to change your tech primarily helps marginalized groups.
Marginalized groups have always relied on adapting their tech, because their needs rarely get taken into consideration by design teams at tech companies:
A robust right to tinker means that we can divert this superior, well-built technology from landfills, by retrofitting it with modern guts that keep it up to date with the *good* things that have emerged since it was built, while discarding all the garbage that came along with it.
Take the Thinkpad X220, one of the greatest computers ever made:
As Brad at btxx wrote in 2023, the X220 is built like a tank, had every port under the sun, supported compact lightweight batteries and massive external ones, sported one of the greatest keyboards ever to grace a laptop, and had an open bootloader, making it a dream to run Linux on. It was incredibly easy to repair and maintain, too (I once swapped a keyboard on one of these one-handed while holding my infant daughter in my other hand).
I would love to have an X220 with a modern processor, a shit-ton of RAM, and and updated screen. There's no way *I'm* ever going to build it, but there's probably a couple thousand people like me who would pay, say, $2500 each for these retrofits. For some enterprising hardware hacker, that's a pretty good year's wages, and a project that could launch a reputation and future projects.
Thinkpads went steeply downhill after the X220, so much so that I abandoned them altogether, after more than a decade of annual hardware purchases, switching to the wonderful, repairable Framework:
The fact that Lenovo - the current owner of the Thinkpad line - just *sucks* at making computers is no reason for those X220s to go to the landfill. Someone could - and should - move fast and break Lenovo.
For more than 20 years, we have tried to make tech better by "holding tech to account," trying to make giant tech companies wield their power more responsibly. This has been a total failure, which has done nothing but strengthen tech companies, making them both too big to jail *and* too big to care. A better tech future isn't one in which today's tech companies behave better, it's one in which their bad behavior doesn't matter because they no longer have any power over us.
To bring that future into being, we have to take away tech power, not try and direct it in positive ways. We need to design our policy around evacuating tech platforms, not fixing them. We need to encourage moving fast and breaking (Big Tech's) things. The problem with the world isn't that the wrong tech bosses weild vast power over the lives of billions of people - it's that *anyone* has that power.
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There's a theme, here, of governments giving up their responsibilities to private institutions: no more public housing when you can give tax breaks to construction companies, sell off the mail service, contract municipal parking to a corporation, get big tech to literally police free speech. There's a thread, here, of government giving up on being government.
It's partly ideological--conservative governments love giving public money to private firms they want to have jobs with after they lose an election--but it's also the illusion of "balancing the books" by getting one big cost off them in the short term only for a future administration to have to deal with the fallout, which they'll get blamed for by virtue of being in power when the roof collapses.
One big question is how to have democracy, where the people decide who's in power and when the same people don't get to perpetually hold power (allegedly) but also have long-term thinking rather to an each party killing the previous party's plans. I don't have a good answer for that.
Couldn't an even narrower change to section 230 preserve the liability shield if someone isn't making any "editorial decisions"?
For example, RSS and chronological feeds, no problem, fully shielded. But, as soon as you promote certain content, you become a "publisher" and can be held liable?
Section 230 reads "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher..." But, when Facebook and YouTube are trying to boost engagement by selecting the most rage-inducing content and forcing it into your feed, they do seem like publishers.
I'm sure the devil's in the details. Like, is a stickied forum post enough to make someone a publisher? But, generally this would draw a distinction between algorithmic platforms (big tech) and chronological platforms (traditional forums).
If Meta and friends were to lose the ability to manipulate feeds and emotions without being seen as publishers, losing the explore tab seems like the tiniest possible price to pay.
But, yeah, the devil is in the details. Losing the option to block spam would be a problem.
If a law could be crafted by Tim Wu, Lina Khan, Elizabeth Warren etc. I think it could improve 230. But, this congress would do the exact wrong thing, especially once big tech got their FAANGs into it.
@merc How about losing Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and footage of atrocities in Gaza, all of which would attract threats from authoritarians, criminals, and monsters, whom large platforms would choose not to fight, and whom smaller, federated services could not afford to fight/
I don't really see the connection to section 230 there. Meta has full section 230 protection, but bent the knee and adjusted its algorithms immediately when Trump was elected. Something only possible *because* it has algorithmic feeds, not a chronological ones.
It seems like what's saving small instances right now isn't section 230, it's that they're too small to bother with.
@merc indeed, the point here is that Facebook finds it very easy to comply with these liability restrictions and they often do so by simply blocking everything that doesn't come from someone powerful and connected. Meanwhile smaller platforms that we hope will serve as a refuge from Facebook would be completely hamstrung.
if you don't think that small servers are vulnerable to legal threats, I invite you to apply for a job at eff monitoring our intake, because the vast majority of people we hear from are tiny little individuals being threatened by gigantic corporations, vindictive millionaires, and governments
@merc Harvey Weinstein literally hired ex mossad agents to torment the women who accused him, you think that they would be above trying to get the servers where those women post shut down?
Facebook finds it easy to comply with the restrictions in the 230-as-is world. Do you think their behaviour would change if they were seen as a publisher and had to treat user content the way radio stations handle listener call ins?
Again, I'm not suggesting scrapping 230, just adjusting it. The original purpose was to treat online sites as a "public library, book store, or newsstand" (Cubby v Compuserve) that couldn't be expected to know the contents of the things they were distributing. But, algorithmic social media sites definitely do know what they're distributing, and choose the most "engaging" things to show to their users. IMO they are definitely more publishers than distributors these days.
Meanwhile, old-school forums and chronological fediverse sites are still acting as distributors not publishers. They don't examine each post for potential engagement and publish the most engaging ones at the top, so they should still receive the section 230 shield.
Small servers are clearly vulnerable to legal threats. But that's today, in a world where section 230 exists as-is. If Weinstein were being accused today he'd go after fediverse sites, no question. But, he wouldn't need 230. He'd use bogus copyright claims, go after payment processors, dox the site operators, etc.
Is your argument that the status quo is best because we can't imagine how much worse things could get? Or that every medium should have equivalent of section 230 protection, including TV, radio and newspapers? If a newspaper editor hand-selects a "juicy" op-ed in which someone defames someone else, should the newspaper be able to claim 230 protection because they merely hosted the op-ed? Or is that only OK when it's online?
@merc Every medium *does* have 230 protection. The paper manufacturer, printer manufacturer and contract printer aren't responsible for the words in the newspaper.
I'm not a lawyer, but it seems like other mediums don't have section 230 protection. "No provider or user of [a medium] shall be treated as the publisher or speaker...". Look at radio for example:
studentmedia.dasa.ncsu.edu/the… "Radio stations can also be charged with slander by rebroadcasting a defamatory statement made by someone else (such as in sound clip from a news story)."
The FCC is the acronym for the Federal Communications Commission, a government agency with headquarters in Washington, DC. It is a branch of the U.S. Government just like the Internal…
@merc I'm sorry, this is a very silly argument: "This harmful policy I support shouldn't be viewed as harmful, because other harmful policies exist."
Not only that, but this completely ignores what *actually happened* when we carved sex trafficking claims out of SESTA/FOSTA. The status quo ante was safer and better for sex workers. After the reform, things got immediately, durably, terribly worse.
There's a reason Mark Zuckerberg wants to get rid of 230.
"There's a reason Mark Zuckerberg wants to get rid of 230." Again, I'm not suggesting getting rid of section 230, I'm suggesting modifying it in a way that I don't think Zuckerberg would like, because he hates chronological feeds: he's a publisher. He relies on choosing what to shove into people's feeds to boost engagement and drive ad revenue.
@merc Yes. That's what they do with any post related to sex work in a post-SESTA/FOSTA world. It's literally an experiment that we already tried, and we know how it turned out.
What happened with SESTA/FOSTA is bad, but it was the result of denying protection based on the content of the messages rather than the actions of the sites. What I'm saying boils down to "if the entity acts like a publisher it should be treated like a publisher" If it's just a telephone pole people are stapling things to, it should have the liability of a telephone pole. There shouldn't be a special exception for internet sites where someone gets to act like a publisher, but be shielded like a telephone pole.
wait wait wait wait: Prodigy got sued by the ·Wolf of Wall Street·‽ because they were trying to silence online reports of their crimes‽ How was this not in the movie 😛
You're correct: CDA 230 doesn't apply to stuff the platform itself creates, so I'm not sure why you'd raise it here.
As to "promotion": what liability would arise from promoting something "hateful and false." Neither hate nor falsity are illegal (indeed, both are protected by the First Amendment). Removing 230 protections for "hateful and false" speech wouldn't actually make platforms civilly liable for it, because there is no liability for it.
@Ehay2k What about #MeToo? Should posts from obscure account accusing Harvey Weinstein of raping them have been downranked by services, unless their moderators were personally able to verify them?
What about viral videos of cops beating the shit out of Black drivers they pulled over? These cops already assert irreparable reputational harm from these - what webhost would permit them if they could be named to civil suits?
@Ehay2k No, the *reason* people followed #MeToo is that it went viral thanks to recommendation algorithms. People didn't intuit the existence of the hashtag, type it into the search tool, and then start following it.
Further, the search tool *also* ranked the messages, because spammers *routinely* add trending tags to spams and scams. Without ranking, a search for any popular tag would be ten million spams.
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Easier to have nginx filter it out because. It will look in the log and see the crawlers by useragent and you tell it to look at a list of preset crawlers and block them
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my distiller finished 2 cycles and the RO output was 80lbs this evening (like 10 gallons or so), still maintaining about 10lbs/hr instead of the 16 i was promised, but whatever, 10 is better than zero.
so i gotta close the feedline valve for the RO and hit the bricks, as my ex used to say.
no rush on response. Do you cook with / drink the distilled water? Do you add any minerals in for taste? What do you do with the left over materials that don’t distill?
@scottdhansen distilled is for the ice machine and the coffee machine, both which are a PITA to clean/descale. so i don't add anything back.
and there's not *much* left after distillation, some stubborn chalky residue around where the burner is under the vessel; i remove it with 30% vinegar and a melamine sponge when it covers more than half the burner area.
It's only 3/4 gallon or so capacity, and i stop it with a pint or more left inside to prevent burning the residue into my carafe.
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Results of my little survey. Why is Linux growing?
19% believe it is because of sunsetting of OS versions. Microsoft is forcing Windows 11 on people and a lot of people are not happy with that and some are just not able to run it. So with a choice of replacing the HW or the OS, plenty of people choose the OS.
20% believe it is because people are just discovering how good Linux truly is.
41% believe it is a combination.
21% think it is something else, with some mentioning SteamOS as a reason.
Whatever the reason, more and more people are seeing Linux as a great choice, which is only good news to me.
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@Vivaldi, la fonction de "Recall" dans W11 peut être facilement désactivée dans la configuration de la confidentialité de Windows, dans la mine, il a même été désactivé par défaut.
Alors que l'on parle beaucoup de "taxer les riches", l'Union européenne fait exactement le contraire : elle mise sur la taxation, régressive, de la consommation pour se financer.
L’héritière de L’Oréal, Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers, possède une fortune estimée à 88 milliards de dollars. Elle est l’une des femmes les plus riches du monde, grâce à sa participation dans le géant de la cosmétique.
In my journey to limit Kindle/Amazon books and their invasive extensive DRM from my life...I picked up this Onyx Boox Go 6 e-ink android reader
It runs standard android but a bit older - android 11 and connects to on line app store and various sites. has a browser (but slow of course on e-ink!) that's great but not why I got it. Wanted an e-ink android reader to replace my Kindle paperwhite and be able to run the Readera App so I can sync my books, bookmarks, reading progress and notes across all my devices - phone, tablets.
Was a bit frustrating at first til I discovered how to adjust the display (some apps and app menus etc were not showing up)...but once I got past that it seems to work great! Battery life is reportedly much less 1/4 or more than Kindle but that's not that big a deal and I suspect that mostly has to do with using it to browse the web.
Tried out the built in browser.... Wow. I'm impressed. People online are complaining about it but damn..it's way faster and better than the computers and browsers when I started with the interwebz!!! These young whippersnappers don't know how good they got it....sheesh!
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