Here's the list
https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/policies/internal-security/counter-terrorism-and-radicalisation/prevention-radicalisation/terrorist-content-online/list-national-competent-authority-authorities-and-contact-points_en
So far it's mostly the police. In Hungary it's a politically appointed office.
It's not just 27. Any designated "competent authority" can give the order, so every member state can give this power to any number of entities.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021R0784#d1e1275-79-1
Moreover, when Western nations make copyright worse, they then try to convince other countries to adopt the same bad ideas
"Convince" as in "arm-twist" under the penalty of economic and military repercussions.
https://edri.org/our-work/european-commission-derails-copyright-reform-in-south-africa/
The authors completely neglected to check any of the factors usually associated with deliverability, because they assumed that these big senders would get it right:
As these digital marketing organizations are among the largest in the world, it is highly unlikely that the SFAs would mark emails as spam just because they were sent using one of their SMTP servers. Thus, we do not perform PSM using the IP address of the sender’s SMTP server as a covariate.
That's a strange assertion. Big newsletters try to have their own IP address to avoid having their reputation harmed by bad senders. It would have been useful to compare responsible senders on both sides.
Curiously, less than half of the emails sent had an SPF record, and over two third of these were from the Democratic party. It would have been useful to compare emails with correct SPF records.
$ cat *json | grep -c "Received-SPF"
98231
$ cat *json | grep "Received-SPF: pass" | grep -Eo "[a-z]+.[a-z]+ " | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 5
31901 bluestatedigital.com
26334 myngp.com
11118 amazonses.com
8997 bluehornet.com
3722 rnchq.com
Maybe the GOP should use SPF?
Actually, if you look at the raw data for Gmail, you'll see that most of the messages passed DKIM verification:
$ cat *json | grep -Eo "dkim=[^ ]+" | sort | uniq -c
68 dkim=fail
221388 dkim=pass
16626 dkim=temperror
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DgL_K1Vmfj7v6Rvz3BtL6PG7sPIwZ9xL
When a user moves emails from spam to inbox, the spam percentage should decrease because the user is showing interest that such emails should appear in the inbox. The response of Gmail to the S→I interaction follows this intuition while that of Outlook and Yahoo does not.
Fig. 7 shows that after the five S→I interactions, on average, Gmail marks just 5.34% of the right emails as spam
The Fox News narrative is counterproductive, because the GOP is missing an opportunity to fundraise more: it should be telling people to use Google to subscribe to its emails!
The problems of scale are getting popular: see Marques Brownlee, "YouTube Needs to Fix This", which also discusses the very interesting YT-Spammer-Purge (congratulations to the author of this GPL utility and to Google for providing an effective API to make it possible!).
Brownlee thinks the community-made tools prove that YouTube could do better, but in reality they only prove how hard it would be to perform such antispam work at scale. The repository is full of reports about false positives (which is normal), and we know how even a 99.5 % accuracy can result in a filter being a major net negative (see " A Numerical Exploration Of How The EU's Article 13 Will Lead To Massive Censorship ").
One depressing line in the video is that the comment section "is such a unique feature" of YouTube. Comment sections were ubiquitous 15-20 years ago, but for recent internet users they appear a rarity.
(Reposting the comments without links to see whether it gets past the antispam filters here...)
The problems of scale are getting popular:
Marques Brownlee, "YouTube Needs to Fix This"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw-vODp-8Y
Which also discusses the very interest
https://github.com/ThioJoe/YT-Spammer-Purge
(congratulations to the author of this GPL utility and to Google for providing an effective API to make it possible!).
Brownlee thinks the community-made tools prove that YouTube could do better, but in reality they only prove how hard it would be to perform such antispam work at scale. The repository is full of reports about false positives (which is normal), and we know how even a 99.5 % accuracy can result in a filter being a major net negative:
https://www.techdirt.com/2018/12/18/youtubes-100-million-upload-filter-failures-demonstrate-what-disaster-article-13-will-be-internet/
One depressing line in the video is that the comment section "is such a unique feature" of YouTube. Comment sections were ubiquitous 15-20 years ago, but for recent internet users they appear a rarity.
That alternatives to classified ads are a big part of the decline of newspapers' revenues will be surprising for... exactly nobody who paid attention to the countless articles on the "unbundling of the newspaper" written since at least 2002.
2002:
Unbundling The Newspaper
https://www.poynter.org/archive/2002/unbundling-the-newspaper/
This business model unbundling occurred over the course of approximately five years in a series of waves that didn’t actually reveal their true impact until after the year 2000.
“Bundling” was the idea that all parts of the paper came literally in one wrapper—news, sports, comics, grocery-store coupons—and that people who bought the paper for one part implicitly subsidized all the rest. [...] “Newspapers never made money on ‘news,’” Hal Varian said. “Serious reporting, say from Afghanistan, has simply never paid its way. What paid for newspapers were the automotive sections, real-estate, home-and-garden, travel, or technology, where advertisers could target their ads.” The Internet has been one giant system for stripping away such cross-subsidies.
This is the same Nick Clegg who the next day claimed people need Facebook to access "reliable information".
https://nitter.eu/nickclegg/status/1499819557870989316
Clearly, he's completely divorced from reality at this point.
soon no-one will be able to act as the propaganda mouthpiece for a violent government engaged in invading another country
I don't know, I wouldn't bet on the imminent shutdown of the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and MSNBC.
https://www.medialens.org/2007/invasion-a-comparison-of-soviet-and-western-media-performance/
https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-russia-war-media-bias-study/279847/
All of the current online activities — taking advantage of the Social Smartphone Era — leave us with the hope the good can prevail over the bad and the ugly
No, sorry. What's going on has absolutely nothing to do with social media. Social media didn't spur a wave of empathy for the suffering of people in Yemen, Syria, South Sudan or any other place where millions are displaced by war and thousands have been killed.
https://www.unhcr.org/emergencies.html
https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-russia-war-media-bias-study/279847/
In copyright law, corporate interest trumps public interest
Although that's the fact of copyright law, it's worth remembering that the theory under which said laws are passed is that they serve the public interest. Congress would not have power to pass said laws if it didn't pretend so:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times...
To grant a monopoly in speech to one person is to abridge that speech as to all others. That is precisely what Congress may not (and cannot) do. That power the First Amendment withdraws on the fact of the text. Read absolutely, the text does not admit of any defense or justifications in the case of abridgement. No law simply means no law.
This cash milking operation seems to be highly inefficient. In Italy, a municipality with 1000 inhabitants makes over 1 million euro a year with a single traffic enforcement camera placed on a busy road. No need to hire more police officers or check that they're behaving fairly.
That's a start but China has a long way to go before it can compete with similar programs run by state-supported USA media like Disney, let alone FOMO machines like Instagram.
List of competent authorities
Here's the list https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/policies/internal-security/counter-terrorism-and-radicalisation/prevention-radicalisation/terrorist-content-online/list-national-competent-authority-authorities-and-contact-points_en So far it's mostly the police. In Hungary it's a politically appointed office.
27 or more
It's not just 27. Any designated "competent authority" can give the order, so every member state can give this power to any number of entities. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021R0784#d1e1275-79-1
Convincing
True colors
SPF usage and other factors
The authors completely neglected to check any of the factors usually associated with deliverability, because they assumed that these big senders would get it right:
That's a strange assertion. Big newsletters try to have their own IP address to avoid having their reputation harmed by bad senders. It would have been useful to compare responsible senders on both sides. Curiously, less than half of the emails sent had an SPF record, and over two third of these were from the Democratic party. It would have been useful to compare emails with correct SPF records. $ cat *json | grep -c "Received-SPF" 98231 $ cat *json | grep "Received-SPF: pass" | grep -Eo "[a-z]+.[a-z]+ " | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 5 31901 bluestatedigital.com 26334 myngp.com 11118 amazonses.com 8997 bluehornet.com 3722 rnchq.com Maybe the GOP should use SPF?Re: DKIM
Actually, if you look at the raw data for Gmail, you'll see that most of the messages passed DKIM verification: $ cat *json | grep -Eo "dkim=[^ ]+" | sort | uniq -c 68 dkim=fail 221388 dkim=pass 16626 dkim=temperror https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DgL_K1Vmfj7v6Rvz3BtL6PG7sPIwZ9xL
Alternative title: Google makes it easiest to subscribe to GOP newsletters
The paper also contains this passage:
The Fox News narrative is counterproductive, because the GOP is missing an opportunity to fundraise more: it should be telling people to use Google to subscribe to its emails!YouTube comment spam
The problems of scale are getting popular: see Marques Brownlee, "YouTube Needs to Fix This", which also discusses the very interesting YT-Spammer-Purge (congratulations to the author of this GPL utility and to Google for providing an effective API to make it possible!). Brownlee thinks the community-made tools prove that YouTube could do better, but in reality they only prove how hard it would be to perform such antispam work at scale. The repository is full of reports about false positives (which is normal), and we know how even a 99.5 % accuracy can result in a filter being a major net negative (see " A Numerical Exploration Of How The EU's Article 13 Will Lead To Massive Censorship "). One depressing line in the video is that the comment section "is such a unique feature" of YouTube. Comment sections were ubiquitous 15-20 years ago, but for recent internet users they appear a rarity. (Reposting the comments without links to see whether it gets past the antispam filters here...)
YouTube comment spam
The problems of scale are getting popular: Marques Brownlee, "YouTube Needs to Fix This" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw-vODp-8Y Which also discusses the very interest https://github.com/ThioJoe/YT-Spammer-Purge (congratulations to the author of this GPL utility and to Google for providing an effective API to make it possible!). Brownlee thinks the community-made tools prove that YouTube could do better, but in reality they only prove how hard it would be to perform such antispam work at scale. The repository is full of reports about false positives (which is normal), and we know how even a 99.5 % accuracy can result in a filter being a major net negative: https://www.techdirt.com/2018/12/18/youtubes-100-million-upload-filter-failures-demonstrate-what-disaster-article-13-will-be-internet/ One depressing line in the video is that the comment section "is such a unique feature" of YouTube. Comment sections were ubiquitous 15-20 years ago, but for recent internet users they appear a rarity.
Bundling and unbundling the newspaper
That alternatives to classified ads are a big part of the decline of newspapers' revenues will be surprising for... exactly nobody who paid attention to the countless articles on the "unbundling of the newspaper" written since at least 2002. 2002:
2008: https://www.techdirt.com/2008/05/16/unbundling-the-newspaper-could-be-a-good-thing/ https://www.alchemyofchange.net/great-unbundling/ 2010: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/06/how-to-save-the-news/308095/"Reliable information"
This is the same Nick Clegg who the next day claimed people need Facebook to access "reliable information". https://nitter.eu/nickclegg/status/1499819557870989316 Clearly, he's completely divorced from reality at this point.
Re: War propaganda
Social media only helps some people; guess who
NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing
Given most medical industries receive public money from the NIH, one first step could be the new data sharing mandate at NIH.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00402-1
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-21-013.html Clinical trials already have wide-ranging deposit mandates.
Re: Abusing copyright or simply using copyright?
No Law
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_L._Lange
Thank you for mentioning David L. Lange's book, I love it.
Expensive amateurs
This cash milking operation seems to be highly inefficient. In Italy, a municipality with 1000 inhabitants makes over 1 million euro a year with a single traffic enforcement camera placed on a busy road. No need to hire more police officers or check that they're behaving fairly.
Source on Serravalle di Chienti: https://www.fanpage.it/attualita/il-record-del-paesino-marchigiano-mille-abitanti-e-un-milione-di-incasso-dalle-multe/ . (Another source states that two thirds of the municipalities do not report these revenues, so there might be some municipality which is even more efficient at milking car owners.)
Small potatoes
That's a start but China has a long way to go before it can compete with similar programs run by state-supported USA media like Disney, let alone FOMO machines like Instagram.
Raising the price
I wonder what price the three-letter agencies will demand from NSO for not fully strangling it. Or has it really outlived its usefulness for them?
By the magistrate judge on 2021-12-02
The lawyers will meet in person with the judge in less than one month from now.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900.57.0.pdf