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A weekly(ish) newsletter on technology, policy and society, from James Ball. Click to read Techtris, by James Ball, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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A teen social media ban is an admission of total and utter failure to govern online spaces
"Granary Square, Kings Cross" by Alan Stanton is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.This is an article about online spaces, but let's start it by thinking about offline ones. I live near Finsbury Park, in north London, a city blessed with many such public spaces
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Is Bluesky dying?
I should have known better. I do know better. And yet, thanks to a thread posted on the evening of Good Friday I managed to do what no sane person should ever do: I made myself the main character of Bluesky. The first post in the thread has 870 replies an
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Guess who's coming (back) to Davos
I can't say for sure - I'm not there - but it's hard to shake the impression that the mood at the World Economic Forum, up in the mountains of Davos, might be less cosy than usual this year.It's the first ever Davos event without its founder, Klaus Schwab
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Disinformation Wars: The Extended Edition
It has been quite some time since I posted properly here. Hopefully this post will make one of the reasons why obvious (there is a small postscript at the end as to the other reason).Today, the Verge has published a lengthy, reported feature I've worked o
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Brits keep getting arrested for tweets. Elon Musk is (part of) the reason.
He tweets you when you're sleeping, he knows when you debateThere is nothing like engaging in a modern debate on free speech to help you see the virtues of draconian censorship. He who would sacrifice essential liberties so as not to see numerous bad take
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