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Some Professional News October 18, 2024 blog Hello World! Some professional news, I will be moving on from the Internet Freedom Foundation in November. I look back fondly at my years with the The Evening After... June 5, 2024 blog & reflection In case you’re wondering what the ‘after’ is that I’m on referring to - on June 4th, India counted the votes and declared the results for its 7 Do, or Do not, but ask why? May 29, 2024 blog & reflection (If you read that title in Yoda’s voice, then congratulations. If you didn’t, then this image is an attempt to Jedi mind-trick you) The last decade The internet doesn’t forget May 20, 2024 micro but on balance, it mostly shrugs and goes ‘meh’ Quoted in Financial Times about Elon Musk and global censorship battles May 12, 2024 quoted Elon Musk launches global battle over government ‘censorship’ of X Engineers and Humanity May 9, 2024 blog I am in the midst of an on-again-off-again relationship with Twitter (another topic for another day), so I missed most of this Engineers and Quoted in Unherd about lessons from India’s TikTok Ban May 7, 2024 quoted What America can learn from India’s war on TikTok - UnHerd Elections we expected vs what we got May 7, 2024 micro “AI What we got: India’s most institutionally captured elections $300M for religious hate speech and low quality deepfakes? May 7, 2024 blog An article in Al Jazeera recently quoted a figure of $300M as the estimated market size for political consultancies in India 1 (more Quoted in The Washington Post about Political Ads on Facebook May 6, 2024 quoted Facebook political ad policies often ignored in India election - The Washington Post No Reliable Allies May 3, 2024 micro Time and again, supposedly liberal people / politicians / systems reveal themselves as being not very different from the supposedly illiberal. We Do not valourise politicians / political actors May 2, 2024 micro I’m of the strong opinion that one should not valourise politicians in general, it is mainly a question of when not if, they will do something Quoted in The Economist about ‘young voters’ in India April 30, 2024 quoted Even disillusioned young Indian voters favour Narendra Modi Quoted in the BBC about lessons from India’s TikTok Ban April 27, 2024 quoted link:: The ghosts of India’s TikTok: What happens when a social media app is banned Section 230, Generative AI / LLMs and Liability April 1, 2024 micro Something tells me we are going to see a lot more of this question - does information / content generated by non-deterministic models have