YouTube bans comments on most videos with minors appearing in them
AI didn’t work to filter everything: Youtube to ban comments on most videos featuring children under 18 (and perhaps others).
The end of #Youtube user generated content and comments?
Youtube just axed comments from tens of millions of videos featuring children – such as, you know, actual family friendly videos – and says they will not run ads on videos that may have “inappropriate comments”. In effect, to make Youtube family friendly, Youtube has just killed off family friendly channels.
“The secret lives of Facebook moderators”
Severe mental health issues come with being a moderator for Facebook wacky posts.
Non-Facebook apps collect sensitive personal data and send it to #Facebook
Facebook’s business is spying on people. Even if you do not have a Facebook app installed on your device, they still collect data via third-party apps.
Facebook’s ad platform let’s you target ads to Nazis – seriously
Use Facebook advertising to target your ads to Nazis and white supremacists because … Facebook!
Fear is a powerful motivator in propaganda messaging: How its used to sell third party solar
Third party companies offer to install solar PV arrays on your home and promise to save you money on your monthly electric utility costs. Bloomberg found they use a mix of false assertions, lies, cherry picking and fear as sales methods, to persuade homeowners to sign up and lease the solar PV system for decades. Over time, the lease costs increase such that the homeowner spends far more in the future, while the third party company collects large government subsidies. Few homeowners understand what they got in to. When they go to sell their home, the lease is transferred to the buyer – in effect, TPO solar PV arrays become a dead weight on the home’s future sales potential, particularly to informed buyers who understand the game.
NYPD says Waze app must censor what it presents
NYPD never heard about this radical notion of the “First Amendment” apparently.
Social media and the “instant expert”
Social media enables anyone to become an “expert” on any topic. Is this a good thing?