VR pioneer Jaron Lanier talks with WIRED about why the original architecture of the internet forced us into a kind of information trickery, and how we can fix it—to everyone’s benefit.
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We Need to Have an Honest Talk About Our Data (WIRED) -
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China is making the internet less free, and US tech companies are helping by (The Verge) While doing business in China, US tech companies must play by local rules — or face getting kicked out.
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The EU’s Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Commons News (Electronic Frontier Foundation) All this month, the European Union’s “trilogue” is meeting behind closed doors to hammer out the final wording of the new Copyright Directive, a once-noncontroversial regulation that became a hotly contested matter when, at the last minute, a set of extremist copyright proposals were added and…
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How China complicates Apple’s chest-thumping about privacy by (The Verge) A former Facebook executive points out that Apple likely has to make compromises, too
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China systematically hijacks internet traffic: researchers (iTnews) Exploited omission in US-China cyber detente agreement.
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UK data watchdog fines Facebook maximum legal amount for Cambridge Analytica scandal by (The Verge) The fine is just £500,000, but regulators say it should have been ‘significantly higher’
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Server to Client by (alistapart.com) Before anything can happen in a browser, it must first know where to go. There are multiple ways to get somewhere: entering a URL in the address bar, clicking (or tapping) on a link on a page or in another app, or clicking on a favorite. No matter the case, these all result in what’s called a navigation. A navigation is the very first step in any web interaction, as it kicks off a chain reaction of events that culminates in a web page being loaded.
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Can I? Should I? Will I? A fellow @beijinghikers assessing one of the many peaks in the Baicheng Landform.
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Thank you @mathiasheng for awarding me first prize 🏆 for this photo from our recent trip to Xinjiang. A special thanks to @beijinghikers for organising the incredible and eye-opening trip.
