#regulation
Barack Obama's address on internet disinformation
I've seen multiple reports and articles in recent days on Obama's recent addresses on this topic --- at the University of Chicago and, linked here, Stanford University (2022-04-21).
I've not been able to find a transcript of the actual speech.
C-SPAN however has the actual video:
This is the video of former US president Barack Obama at Stanford University on the matter of online disinformation. The speech was given on 21 April 2022.
Obama's remarks begin at about 9m50s.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?519625-1/president-obama-warns-threat-disinformation-democracy
(#mpv will play audio/video directly.)
#BarackObama #Disninformation #FakeNews #SocialMedia #EpistemicSystems #Truth #Media #Speaches #Regulation
This is interesting, and maybe important to many. Wonder why I didn't see this anywhere among the normal news feeds...
E.U. Takes Aim at Social Media’s Harms With Landmark New Law
The Digital Services Act would force Meta, Google and others to combat misinformation and restrict certain online ads. How European officials will wield it remains to be seen.
#DigitalServicesAct #Internet #regulation #disinformation #socialmedia #media #Meta #Google #Facebook
« Le modèle imposé aux paysans est de s’agrandir ou de dégager ! »
Agriculteur dans le Finistère, Pierrick Berthou constate avec colère la constante diminution des fermes, et le faible revenu de ses collègues. Il propose de réguler la production pour sortir de cette crise agricole qui tue la terre et les paysans. Témoignage. https://basta.media/Temoignage-agriculteur-depuis-60-ans-le-modele-impose-aux-paysans-est-de-s-agrandir-ou-de-degager
#Agriculture #Paysan #Precarite #Agroindustrie #Temoignage #Regulation #Alternative #Productivisme #Consommation #Bretagne #Finistere #ProducteurLaitier #Agriculteur
EU: New Framework Of Rules To Limit Threats From Cryptocurrencies
Draft rules on the supervision, consumer protection and environmental sustainability of cryptocurrencies, including cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, were agreed by members of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, which adopted, by 31 votes in favor, 4 against and 23 abstentions, its negotiating position on new rules for crypto assets aimed at enhancing user confidence and supporting the development of digital services and alternative means of payment.
https://bitnewsbot.com/eu-new-framework-of-rules-to-limit-threats-from-cryptocurrencies/
#Europe #crypto #cryptonews #cryptocurrency #regulation #bitcoin #btc
Biden administration confirms Section 201 extension, bifacial exemption
Section 201 tariffs on solar imports to the US will be extended by four years, however bifacial panels will continue to be exempt and the tariff rate quota for cell imports doubled.
https://www.pv-tech.org/biden-administration-confirms-section-201-extension-bifacial-exemption/
#biden, #bifacial, #china, #joe, #news, #regulation, #section, #201, #policy
#NYC aims to be first to rein in #AI #hiring tools
The bill was recently watered down so that it effectively just asks employers to meet existing requirements under U.S. civil rights laws prohibiting hiring practices that have a disparate impact based on race, #ethnicity or #gender. (...) The burden of these audits falls on the vendors of the tools to show that they comply with some rudimentary set of requirements that are very easy to meet.
source: https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-nyc-aims-rein-ai-hiring.html
#software #regulation #politics #NewYork #labour #work #law #news #tool
Digital Markets Act - the FSFE calls for Device Neutrality
"On the imminent voting of the Digital Markets Act - the latest EU proposal on internet platform regulation - the FSFE demands device neutrality as a fundamental element for safeguarding consumer protection in open, fair, and contestable digital markets."
➡ https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20211122-01.html
#Europe #Europa #EU #EuropeanUnion #DigitalMarketsAct #DMA #Regulation #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Linux #OpenFormats #Formats #OpenStandards #Standards #Interoperability #Portability
New from the #TexasTaliban -
In case male ownership of women, forced infection of children, restricting schools from notifying parents of infections, etc., was not enough....
Restricting voting. ✓ Disenfranchising local governance. ✓ And this too!
Thin-sliced: No stinkin' social media platform is gonna stop liars from lying as it is their G-d given freedom to endanger others...
Social media companies can’t ban Texans over political viewpoints under bill headed to governor’s desk
#Texas #DeathSantis #Abbott #superspreaders #socialmedia #media #regulation
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Opinion: Where Did the #Coronavirus Come From? What We Already Know Is Troubling.
source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/opinion/coronavirus-lab.html
Finding a dangerous virus in a cave or a petri dish might be useful, but it’s a bit like poking a bear we are trying to avoid.
Field research on bats should have been done more carefully. #Bat viruses should not be studied in BSL-2 labs, and #research in BSL-3 labs should be done only under the strictest caution. #Bats should be treated as a serious threat in labs. #Human interactions with bats should occur under strict #regulation and #surveillance.
#history #news #health #science #virus #conspiracy #pandemic #covid-19 #corona #danger
This Researcher Says AI Is Neither Artificial nor Intelligent - Is AI An Excuse Not To Expose The Algorithms?
It is presented as this ethereal and objective way of making decisions, something that we can plug into everything from teaching kids to deciding who gets bail. But the name is deceptive: AI is neither artificial nor intelligent.
AI is made from vast amounts of natural resources, fuel, and human labor. And it's not intelligent in any kind of human intelligence way. It’s not able to discern things without extensive human training, and it has a completely different statistical logic for how meaning is made. Since the very beginning of AI back in 1956, we’ve made this terrible error, a sort of original sin of the field, to believe that minds are like computers and vice versa. We assume these things are an analog to human intelligence, and nothing could be further from the truth.
Too much today gets passed off as AI, for example a dashcam with lane guidance. No, it's just algorithms matching lines and those algorithms do very quick checks, and if it gets say more than an 80% match of what it expected to see, then it is following a road line marking. The reason why humans have to keep tweaking the algorithms, is because that is the 'learning process'. But it is much the same as a programmer constantly tweaking and adjusting a complex algorithm. Another algorithm could make adjustments to the first one based on outcomes, but it's really not intelligent, has no emotions, no guilt, no feelings.
This is partly the danger of just trusting AI blindly. You can't - you have to build hard boundaries in, or limit it to known problems. Maybe AI for bail applications must state when something is just beyond its algorithmic capabilities. Are algorithms just being used as a new way to covertly exert power? We need to recognise AI as still being a product of its creator's mindset.
See This Researcher Says AI Is Neither Artificial nor Intelligent
#technology #AI #regulation #algorithms #decisionmaking
Kate Crawford, who holds positions at USC and Microsoft, says in a new book that even experts working on the technology misunderstand AI.
Big Tech Showdown Looms As Biden Taps Top Critics Lina Khan, Tim Wu
...President Biden on Monday nominated Khan to the Federal Trade Commission, an agency tasked with enforcing competition laws. She is the splashiest addition to Biden's growing roster of Big Tech critics, including fellow Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu, who announced earlier this month he would join the National Economic Council.
The news suggests the White House is preparing for a showdown with the tech industry at a time when federal and state regulators are already pursuing investigations and lawsuits challenging the dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. Biden has also called for the repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a legal shield for Internet platforms that has come under fire from both Democrats and Republicans. ...
#LinaKhan #TimWu #FTC #antitrust #monopoly #uspol #regulation #WelcomeChange
And the Woozle sez:
You can't have a market without regulation. Discuss.
From the Plus. You're a brave man, Mr. Hypertwin, even with the Yapadoodle blocked.
My view:
- What is typically called "the free market" is, in fact, an exceptional, special, and limited case.
- The evidence is that even in so-called free-market economies, huge amounts of transactions occur in other-than-free-market contexts. Government sector. Monopoly and cartel transactions. Very highly regulated or constrained markets. Markets in which legislated advantage is afforded a particular player. Markets in which a small cadre have gamed circumstances strongly to their advantage.
- That the "free market" itself is no panacea. It has very little future awareness and, as with evolution, is largely undirected. Even activities which are plainly highly deleterious or suicidal in the long run are pursued by "the market".
- That I'm not sure of any single preferred solution.
What Adam Smith's idealized market does provide is an ability for individual actors (firms, merchants, producers, consumers) to meet as equals. And if the parties aren't meeting as at least nominal equals, what you've got is no free market.
And Smith writes at great length over the regulatory environment which is required. As a counterexample: Calivinball.
@woozle@hey.iseeamess.com
#markets
#regulation
#FreeMarket