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mnot.net

Co-chair IETF HTTP & AIPREF working groups, member Internet Architecture Board (again), standards lead at Cloudflare. Former W3C TAG, W3C BoD. Interested in the intersection of legal regulation and technical standards. https://www.mnot.net

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Is AI a useful option for policymakers who want to evaluate open standards? Let's take a look. https://www.mnot.net/blog/2025/06/04/using_ai

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So, Google just launched a major new AI demo that requires people to relax their browser security settings. Wow.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

"A surprising potential consequence of digital tariffs could be the accelerated development and adoption of open-source technologies," Shah wrote. "As proprietary digital products and services become subject to cross-border tariffs, open-source alternatives—which can be freely shared, modified, and

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"Yet beneath their ideological differences, the American and Chinese models are converging in function. One is driven by market logic, the other by political imperatives—but both prioritize efficiency over accountability, control over consent, and scale over individual rights. In a world where

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Stanley Tucci for pope. #tucci25

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

Set your iPhone language to “English (Australia)” and then try to type some words. Realize aluminum color Those are American spellings. For a company that obsessively auto capitalizes (argh capitalises) words like “FaceTime” and “Apple”, it’s hard to see this as unintentional. They employ

submitted 61 days ago • 4 comments

Breaking big tech's hold over people's experience of the Internet is not "breaking the Internet." https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/brewing-transatlantic-tech-war

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Koji hard shake!

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"We therefore suggest that one of the most pragmatic anti-capitalist things that one can do is to push for any organizations that you might be involved with to participate in the standards development process. Encouraging organizations within a capitalist system to participate in a process that

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Rongros

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Almost 90% of the nuclear warheads in the world are now effectively controlled by one man.

submitted 118 days ago • 1 comment

Very relevant piece from @coopdanger on why divesting Chrome from Google isn't the end of the Web. https://www.techpolicy.press/the-true-cost-of-browser-innovation-why-chromes-divestiture-wouldnt-end-the-open-web/

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Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organisations is out! Highly recommended read, and open access. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

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I don't monitor every @ - if you want to make sure I see something, e-mail.

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It's crazy this idea that if you're open about your perspective, show your work, and report like a human being then your readers — who are also human beings — might trust you more than an opaque box with a tone of affected detachment pretending to be unbiased.

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The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against approximately two dogs.

submitted 198 days ago • 212 comments

Timely & sobering thoughts from @danielstone.bsky.social about how those who want to make tech work for people need to change their thinking and messaging. Simiar thoughts about the new administration came up at a recent @thegni.bsky.social event I attended... www.techpolicy.press/the-public-d...

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pretty grim when health insurance company executives have to try to hide their identities online like they're public school history teachers, government employees or doctors who care for transgender people

submitted 204 days ago • 144 comments

A new book explores an intriguing idea: that there are core processes in some platforms that naturally tilt the table towards being implemented in a single company. www.mnot.net/blog/2024/11...

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Assuming this place is centralized until proven otherwise.

submitted 214 days ago • 5 comments

Great work by the Human Rights Law Centre here --https://www.hrlc.org.au/reports-news-commentary/rights-first

submitted 219 days ago • 0 comments

Getting ready.