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But in a world where social media platforms stand to monetize and profit from the graffiti on their digital walls — which contains not just porn but also misinformation and hate speech — the absolutist stance that they have total protection and total legal “immunity” is untenable.
Beyond Section 230: Three Paths to Making the Big Tech Platforms More Transparent and Accountable
niemanlab.org
The collapse of crypto lending firms and exchanges in 2022 was in many ways worse, faster and dumber and more complete, than the global financial crisis of 2008. But it did much less harm, because the damage was confined mostly to crypto. Crypto speculators, people playing in the toy financial system, lost a lot of crypto. But banks and savers mostly did not lose money, because banks and savers mostly steered clear of crypto, because it was so obviously unregulated and full of scams. More and better regulation would be good for crypto, in that it might give more regular people the confidence to invest in crypto. But that might be bad for the regular people!
How Not to Play the Game
bloomberg.com
The best approach is to embed the required JavaScript and CSS inline on the page, and then temporarily hide the text pending the execution of the text balancer.
Improving the New York Times’ Line Wrap Balancer
ctrl.blog
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