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#cryptohagen

Everytown for Gun Safety har sagsøgt flere #BigTech platforme #Meta, #Amazon, #Discord, #Snap, #4chan og andre, og hævder, at deres algoritmer radikaliserede, som derefter endte med at dræbe 10 mennesker i Buffalo, New York, i 2022

Han live-streamede angrebet på Twitch og sagde i et langt manifest og en privat dagbog, som han førte på Discord, at han til dels var blevet radikaliseret og med vilje gik efter et samfund med et flertal af sorte
theverge.com/policy/674869/buf

Photo collage of the Lady Justice statue blinded by an algorithm.
The Verge · If algorithms radicalize a mass shooter, are companies to blame?By Gaby Del Valle
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ilias :thepiratebay:

literally there is an entire book about how a western big tech company has empowered a totalitarian state just to increase their own profits – and now another company goes with the exact same route, also because they're "missing the target revenue"

big tech's greediness knows no limits

theregister.com/2025/05/29/sen

The Register · Nvidia is cozying up to China with Shanghai R&D lab plans, Senators cryBy Brandon Vigliarolo
#Tech#Technology#China
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netzpolitik.org
Big Tech und Kolonialismus: „Kommunikationsinfrastrukturen waren schon immer Werkzeuge der Kontrolle“

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/big-tech-und-kolonialismus-kommunikationsinfrastrukturen-waren-schon-immer-werkzeuge-der-kontrolle/

Die Künstlerin Esther Mwema erforscht verborgene digitale Machtstrukturen. Auf der re:publica in Berlin sprach sie über die Parallelen zwischen kolonialen Infrastrukturen und den modernen Kabel- und Satellitenprojekten von Big Tech. Wir haben sie zu ihren Recherchen und ihrer Kunst befragt.

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#afrika #bigtech #digitalerkolonialismus #elonmusk #esthermwema #google #infrastruktur #internetinfrastruktur #kolonialismus #meta #re:publica2025 #starlink #netzpolitik

Credits: Alle Rechte vorbehalten Screenshot: re:publica
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👼 Tech-moguler beder om syndsforladelse i Viborg Kunsthal.
I går så jeg scenekunstinstallationen 'The Church of Very Rich Angels' af Exit Stage. Det er stærk kost at se de kendte milliardærer søge tilgivelse med deep fake teknologiens hjælp. Måske ikke så meget for det, at de søger tilgivelse, hvilket alle ved er fiktion, men mere syndsbekendelsen i sig selv og det, at det er muliggjort med teknologi, de selv har bragt til verden.
Man kan læse mere om installationen her:
viborgkunsthal.viborg.dk/udsti
#ViborgKunsthal #ExitStage #bigtech #art #scenekunst

Scenekunstinstallation i form af en digital kirke med en barok altertavles kirkelige motiver af kendte tech millardærer.
Udsnit af scenekunstinstallation i form af en digital kirke med en barok altertavles kirkelige motiver af kendte tech millardærer.
Udsnit af scenekunstinstallation i form af en digital kirke med en barok altertavles kirkelige motiver af kendte tech millardærer.
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JWcph, Radicalized By Decency

So here we are with those small but important things that make ditching Big Tech grating, especially if it's more of a practicality than an identity: Testing out the Docs part of my Nextcloud account with The Good Cloud & it works fine - except that the font choice, already limited to mostly dozens of versions of Noto, is down to just a handful of options that support Danish special characters... 🙄

#DeGoogling#BigTech#tech
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Google isn’t satisfied with its monopoly on the questions we search.

Google wants to use AI to monopolize the very answers themselves.

As one Google executive recently explained: “Organizing information is clearly a trillion-dollar opportunity, but a trillion dollars is not cool anymore. What’s cool is a quadrillion dollars.”

Google plans to use AI to consume and replace the open web.

I believe demolishing independent sites like mine was Google’s first step in clearing ground so it has space to rebuild search from the ground up for an “AI-first” future.

Google envisions a future where “Google does the Googling for you,” its AI and ads do the answering – and users never need to leave Google.

Google will just source information from a handful of sources and partner websites that it controls and selects – effectively creating an information cartel.

If Google can use AI to censor a travel website from the web arbitrarily and without opportunity for appeal – it can do the same to any source of information it wants.

And American citizens and Internet users everywhere will be worse off for it.

So while you may not really care about the plight of some random travel website getting censored, everyone should care about the way Google is deploying AI to build a censorship cartel that lets it control the flow of information online.

What follows is a lengthy summary of my experiences and my opinions as an independent publisher trying to survive in a monopolist’s information economy.

To start, let me explain how we got to this point where Google has the power to do this:"

travellemming.com/perspectives

A graphic showing the Travel Lemming's search traffic in Google Search Console
Travel Lemming · Google is Using AI to Censor Independent WebsitesMy letter to the FTC explaining how Google is using AI to censor thousands of independent websites - and to control the flow of information online.
#Google#SearchEngines#AI
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