[RT] @nytimes: “The Wild Wild Web — the tech industry’s decade-long experiment in unregulated growth and laissez-faire platform governance — is coming to an end,” writes our tech columnist @kevinroose. In its place, a new culture is taking shape. => Goodbye to the Wild Wild Web – new york times
In de afgelopen weken valt het op dat veel social media platformen na jaren van hun ‘laissez faire’ politiek alsnog een bepaalde vorm van moderatie of censuur toepassen. Is dit het begin van een nieuwe koers? “A tech monoculture that once celebrated its recklessness and irreverence — move fast and break things! — is being pushed aside by a younger and more politically conscious generation of tech workers who actually want their companies’ products to reflect their values.”
Het artikel (geschreven door Kevin Roose) poogt aan te geven waar precies het ‘Wild Wild Web’ zijn oorsprong vond en waar het is misgegaan. Of de toegenomen druk bij de techgiganten uiteindelijk positief uitvalt laat Roose vooralsnog in het midden, maar dat er iets moet en gaat gebeuren is in zijn ogen onvermijdelijk. “But there is no turning back. The people who build transformative technologies can no longer credibly claim that their creations are “just tools,” any more than Supreme Court justices can claim that their opinions are “just words.” Governments that once embraced innovation as an unalloyed good — like India, which this week banned TikTok and dozens of other Chinese-owned apps to protect its “sovereignty and integrity” — now recognize, correctly, that letting someone else build your apps is tantamount to letting them shape your society.”
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[RT] @carolecadwalla: Insightful article on reporting on Facebook by @SilvermanJacob – esp noxious ‘on background’ briefings. Not included but important: SEC found Facebook lied to journalists about Cambridge Analytica (inc me) in 2017. And: we still don’t know the truth => Spies, Lies, and Stonewalling: What It’s Like to Report on Facebook – columbia journalism review
Een onderzoek door Jacob Silverman onder meerdere journalisten hoe het is om over facebook te berichten. Niet iets om vrolijk van te worden: “In conversations with more than fifteen journalists and industry observers, I tried to understand what it is like to cover Facebook. What I found was troublesome: operating with the secrecy of an intelligence agency and the authority of a state government, Facebook has arrogated to itself vast powers while enjoying, until recently, limited journalistic scrutiny. […] Media organizations have stepped up their game, but they suffer from a lack of access, among other power asymmetries.”