Christina Maas
Christina is a Reclaim contributor who's interested in platforms, their policies, and their ability to push social and cultural conditions. [email protected]
MembersWithdrawal Symptoms on The Long Goodbye to Big Tech
The first few weeks with an alternative are often the price of having one.
The Social Reckoning Wants the Speech Referees Back
Facebook spent years censoring plenty. The movie says the problem was that it didn’t censor enough.
Federal GRANITE Act Targets Foreign Censorship Orders in US
Foreign censors have discovered that sending threatening emails to US platforms is cheap. Michael Rulli’s bill is designed to make the next step considerably more expensive.
Court Backs DMCA Takedown of Public Meeting Videos
Waltham outsourced its public meeting recordings, and the contractor used DMCA notices to pull 15 news videos.
Nintendo DMCA Takedowns Hit 400 GitHub Emulator Repos
GitHub's policy says it sides with developers when there is doubt. August 17 was apparently a day without any.
MembersTotal Coverage, Optional Oversight
Surveillance companies do not promise their systems will never be abused. They promise the abuse will be caught, which is a different promise and a much smaller one.
MembersThe Streetlight With Half a Terabyte of Surveillance Storage Inside
The city council approved a lighting upgrade. What it got was 4,000 poles with an Intel processor and two cameras apiece, and nobody thought to ask which one they were voting on.
How NIH Silenced Its Critics Without Telling Them
NIH knew its keyword filters were hiding one side of a public debate. Internal emails now reveal how its lawyers tried to keep the system working without making the censorship look unconstitutional.
Adam Candeub’s Plan for Section 230, Obscenity, and Your Hands
There is a version of reducing Big Tech’s power that leaves you freer, and this is not the one on offer.
Trump Admin Circulates Draft UN Free Speech Declaration Targeting EU Censorship Law
The draft asks governments to admit that punishing false speech can hurt true speech, which in Brussels now counts as a diplomatic incident.
MembersMicrosoft Stamped a Secret Number in Your Windows PC. a VPN Can’t Hide It.
The tool that caught a genuine hacker ships identically on the machine of every innocent user.
MembersThe Memory Hole Above Beijing
The tools that erased a Beijing skyscraper crash are already moving through the West’s safety laws under warmer names.