• President Trump has issued an executive order to conduct a review of CDA Section 230.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Full text of the order is here.  (WhiteHouse.gov)
  
  It doesn't repeal Section 230, because an executive order can't do that.
  
  It doesn't even postulate any infringement of First Amendment rights.
  
  It just questions the assumptions that predicate Section 230, and the way it is applied in practice, and asks for a review.
  
  Naturally, Twitter is going bananas.
  
  
  
• Twitter hates Roof Koreans.*
  
  
  
  
  Edit: Huh.  It doesn't show on the embed.  You'll have to click on that to see what they're up to now.
  
  Brought to you by Twitter's new Department of Proving Trump Right.
  
  * I realise the words used by Trump come from a different, earlier event, one that I am unfamiliar with.  The point though is the same: Twitter is run by idiots.
  
  
  
• Censorship is an irregular verb.  (TechDirt)
  
  I exercise discretion.
  You moderate.
  He censors.
  
  The fundamental flaw in this idiocy is that Twitter's censorship - and Facebook's, YouTube's, Google's - does come with a threat, implicit or explicit.  If you don't comply with the rules that change every five minutes and are mostly secret anyway, your account gets wiped.
  
  All your content, gone.  All your friends and contacts, gone.  If you try to create a new account, that in itself is grounds for you to be banned immediately.  If you try to appeal, you account stays suspended while they sit around laughing for a week before they reject your appeal without any response whatsoever.
  
  
  
• Ryzen 4000 with its Zen 3 core might be produced on TSMC's 5nm process and launch at CES next year but I really doubt it.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Not least because the rumour the very next day is that Ryzen 5000 will also feature Zen 3 and be produced on 7nm.
  
  It's pretty clear that no-one actually knows anything.
  
  
  
• Run Solaris on your PowerPC!  (Virtually Fun)
  
  Because... Nope, can't think of a reason.  Do I even have a...  Oh, yeah, of course I have a PowerPC system.  Just made by Apple, not IBM. 
  
  I have the Cube.  In my closet.
  
  
  
• Bleeping Computer is back after its server mishap and is full of blargh.
  
  It would probably be quicker to make a list of who hasn't been hacked.
  
  
  
• Android Studio 4.0 is out.  (Google)
  
  It's based on the same framework as PyCharm and therefor does not completely suck.
  
  
  
• Australia's NBN now supports gigabit speeds except for wherever it is you happen to live.  (ZDNet)
  
  If you have FTTP, which no-one does, you can get it now, maybe.  If you're on the ancient decaying HFC system, you can get it now, with full download speeds being available for up to 50 seconds per day.
  
  If you're on FTTC or FTTN, fuhgedaboutit.
  
  
  
• The ACLU is suing Clearview AI over invasion of privacy.  (New York Times)
  
  First useful thing they've done since...  Um.
  
  
  
• YouTube says that their deletion of all comments critical of Chinese fascists was not influenced by outside parties.  (The Verge)
  
  "We're just morons", said CEO Susan Wojcicki.  "We'd forget our own shoes if they weren't stapled to our hands."
  
  
  
• Amazon is planning to offer permanent jobs to 70% of the 175,000 temporary hires they put on during the Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague.  (Reuters)
  
  That seems like good news.  Are we allowed to have good news?
  
  
  

Posted by: normal at Saturday, May 30 2020 04:24 AM (obo9H)

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