minor point.
RE: "the widely respected Pew Research Center did a massive study on kids and the internet"
As someone who largely agrees with you and your conclusions, I think it's important (and would ultimately help your advocacy here) to clarify that it is not a study, it is a survey. - Pew's own term.
FWIW I think a better summary of that survey's key high-level takeaways would be:
"majorities credit these platforms with deepening connections and providing a support network when they need it,"
and
"When teens are asked to reflect on their personal experiences with social media, again, the largest share (59%) say social media has had a neither positive nor negative effect on them personally.""
not the somewhat misleading
"for a majority of teens, social media was way more helpful than harmful."
Wow, rapacious AND avaricious!
A menace, clearly.
Surprised they didn't try to run the table with
mendacious
vexatious
bumptious
multifarious
pernicious
nefarious
(bootylicious?)
How specious and non-serious.
Let's hope this guy is sufficiently pugnacious to battle them in court
"None of that happened. Officer Murphy arrested first and asked rather desperate questions later. "
should be:
"None of that happened. Officer Schmitt arrested first and asked rather desperate questions later.
"it feels weird to have contempt sanction amounts be based on net worth."
Could you expand on why?
What should they be based on?
I am reminded of Finnish speeding tickets, or fines for business breaking the law.
As they say, "when the fine amounts to less than the profit for the illegal conduct, it’s not a fine, it’s just a price".
No overt profit here, but
It seems like the only way to deter rich people and entities from thumbing their noses at orders is precisely to make it hurt quickly.
See
Spider Robinson's "Melancholy Elephants" from 1982
(perennially germane, always ignored)
"Don't you see what perpetual copyright implies? It is perpetual racial memory!"
https://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___1.htm
note also that as of April 15th, 2023 Twitter has apparently stopped sharing with the Lumen Database copies of any takedown notices Twitter receives.
(per searching for Twitter notices on Lumen)
"the age check may involve a liveness test where the user must take several selfie photos or record a short video saying phrases requested by the provider."
= "How to destroy the Internet as we know it"
I will literally never do this, and I suspect I am far from alone.
" AV provider may not have needed to access your personal data at all. Age estimation based on facial analysis...."
Sorry, you're suggesting that facial analysis is NOT personal data?
Thinking long-term, and trying for positive emergent outcomes: Everyone likes porn (come on....) So I bet a lot of non-homeless folks will be watching porn on the network too. Keeps it off their home networks, etc. This isn't a bi deal because they are rubbing it out in private. Those people likely won't support an overbroad filter on the public wi-fi, because.. .porn! So, it then turns out there really is a problem with the homeless self-pleasuring on the street with their new visual aids. Solution? Get them all homes! They 're off the street, and everyone enjoys free-wi-fi and porn in blissful privacy.
"He's just a guy that really, really loves minority communities and helping the poor, and just happens to spend the lion's share of his time whispering in politicians' and regulators' ears."
Beautiful. So call him something that points out how insidiously they've subverted things.
consent to record
Regarding recording, Massachusetts is one of only a few two-party consent states
brief clarification
minor point. RE: "the widely respected Pew Research Center did a massive study on kids and the internet" As someone who largely agrees with you and your conclusions, I think it's important (and would ultimately help your advocacy here) to clarify that it is not a study, it is a survey. - Pew's own term. FWIW I think a better summary of that survey's key high-level takeaways would be: "majorities credit these platforms with deepening connections and providing a support network when they need it," and "When teens are asked to reflect on their personal experiences with social media, again, the largest share (59%) say social media has had a neither positive nor negative effect on them personally."" not the somewhat misleading "for a majority of teens, social media was way more helpful than harmful."
the truth hurts
Air Canada: "This guy's site does all the stuff we should be doing but can't and that's MEAN. Make him stooooooopppppp!!!
inflammatory adjectives!
Wow, rapacious AND avaricious! A menace, clearly. Surprised they didn't try to run the table with mendacious vexatious bumptious multifarious pernicious nefarious (bootylicious?) How specious and non-serious. Let's hope this guy is sufficiently pugnacious to battle them in court
Identity swap typo
"None of that happened. Officer Murphy arrested first and asked rather desperate questions later. " should be: "None of that happened. Officer Schmitt arrested first and asked rather desperate questions later.
Fines that are easy to pay are just a cost of doing business, not a deterrent.
"it feels weird to have contempt sanction amounts be based on net worth." Could you expand on why? What should they be based on? I am reminded of Finnish speeding tickets, or fines for business breaking the law. As they say, "when the fine amounts to less than the profit for the illegal conduct, it’s not a fine, it’s just a price". No overt profit here, but It seems like the only way to deter rich people and entities from thumbing their noses at orders is precisely to make it hurt quickly.
headline hilarity
A colleague just noted that this headline is peak Masnick, "as if generated by an AI that had been trained on a corpus of Masnick headlines." :)
Elephants still so sad
See Spider Robinson's "Melancholy Elephants" from 1982 (perennially germane, always ignored) "Don't you see what perpetual copyright implies? It is perpetual racial memory!" https://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___1.htm
Even less transparent!
note also that as of April 15th, 2023 Twitter has apparently stopped sharing with the Lumen Database copies of any takedown notices Twitter receives. (per searching for Twitter notices on Lumen)
Elon's Worldview
Sorry, somewhat selfish?
"the age check may involve a liveness test where the user must take several selfie photos or record a short video saying phrases requested by the provider." = "How to destroy the Internet as we know it" I will literally never do this, and I suspect I am far from alone.
you keep using that word....
" AV provider may not have needed to access your personal data at all. Age estimation based on facial analysis...." Sorry, you're suggesting that facial analysis is NOT personal data?
copyright swallows all
Interesting that the structure of the letter so closely mirrors a DMCA notice.
Possible upside
Thinking long-term, and trying for positive emergent outcomes:
Everyone likes porn (come on....)
So I bet a lot of non-homeless folks will be watching porn on the network too. Keeps it off their home networks, etc.
This isn't a bi deal because they are rubbing it out in private. Those people likely won't support an overbroad filter on the public wi-fi, because.. .porn!
So, it then turns out there really is a problem with the homeless self-pleasuring on the street with their new visual aids.
Solution?
Get them all homes!
They 're off the street, and everyone enjoys free-wi-fi and porn in blissful privacy.
Weaponized "Altruist"
"He's just a guy that really, really loves minority communities and helping the poor, and just happens to spend the lion's share of his time whispering in politicians' and regulators' ears."
Beautiful.
So call him something that points out how insidiously they've subverted things.
Been here, done that
Mr. Tyson is also several years late to this particular party, with a weak-sauce retread of older ideas.
Neal Stephenson lamented that the "best minds of his generation writing spam filters" in 2011, and launched a project and companion anthology
Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TE0n_5qPmRM
Original essay: http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/fall2011/innovation-starvation
Site: http://hieroglyph.asu.edu/
Book: ( excellent so far!) http://hieroglyph.asu.edu/book/hieroglyph/
Book:
Seems like an updated version of
"I'm crushing your head"
and equally harmless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwlAvsPvPfg