Jul 1st 2020
This Week in Google 566
Thunderbolt and Lightning
Section 230 FAQ, Social Media Bans, CCPA
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Mike Masnick
- Section 230 FAQ, Social Media Bans, CCPA
- What the F is Section 230?
- US Senate waters down the EARN IT Act (but it still sucks), and more Section 230 news
- Section 230: history repeats itself
- Parler starts banning users
- YouTube, Reddit, and Twitch ban accounts
- What should Facebook do about content moderation?
- Zuckerberg will meet with advertisers over ad boycotts
- Twitch bans President Trump
- Tik Tok is doing some super shady stuff; India bans it.
- Buy the game developed by the CIA!
- The first innocent person arrested using face recognition
- All the ways police are using tech to track protestors
- California Consumer Privacy Act now in force - here's what it means to you
- Cook, Pichai, Bezos, and Zuckerberg meeting congress for anti-trust hearings
- US Supreme Court rules that generic website names can be trademarked
- Microsoft closes its retail stores
- Who pivoted better, Netflix or Microsoft?
- Google quires smart glasses company North
- Watch TWiT's coverage of the Google's smart home event July 8th
- YouTube TV raises its price to $65/month
- Ant's Thing: Hand on Tech: SENNHEISER MKE 400 REVIEW - Shotgun Mic for DLSR/Mirrorless Cameras
- Ant's Thing 2: Peck of the week
- Jeff's Thing: Popup pods for a safe office
- Jeff's Number: When it's cold outside, it's hot on Twitter
- Mike's Stuff: Trust and Safety Professional Association
- Mike's Stuff 2: Trust and Safety Foundation
- Karsten's Mask: Techdirt's YouTube Takedown Mask
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Links
- YouTube bans white supremacists including David Duke and Richard Spencer
- Zuckerberg Agrees to Meet With Groups Behind Advertising Boycott
- Facebook Tightens Controls on Speech as Ad Boycott Grows - WSJ
- Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals The Scary Things He Learned, Advises People To Stay Away From It
- Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act
- Senate Waters Down EARN IT At The Last Minute; Gives Civil Liberties Groups No Time To Point Out The Many Remaining
- I'd Bet Ted Cruz Will Start Supporting Section 230 Once He Realizes He's On The Hook For Parler's Legal Expenses
- Senator Loeffler's New Section 230 Reform Bill Would Threaten Encryption And Pressure Websites To Keep Spam & Porn
- Another Day, Another Bad Bill To Reform Section 230 That Will Do More Harm Than Good
- Brazil's Proposed 'Fake News' Law Says Internet Users Are Guilty Until Proven Innocent, Demands Constant Logging From ISPs
- Indian Govt bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok as border tensions simmer in Ladakh - India News
- Reddit bans r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse as part of a major expansion of its rules - The Verge
- Related: Twitch temporarily bans President Trump
- As Predicted: Parler Is Banning Users It Doesn't Like | Techdirt
- Parler Speedruns The Content Moderation Learning Curve; Goes From 'We Allow Everything' To 'We're The Good Censors' In Days
- CIA: Collect It All game at Techdirt
- Hand on Tech: SENNHEISER MKE 400 REVIEW: Shotgun Mic for DLSR/Mirrorless Cameras
- Peck of the week
- Popup pods for a safe office
- When it's cold outside, it's hot on Twitter
- Trust and Safety Professional Association
- Trust and Safety Foundation
- Karsten ordered this mask for his son's birthday