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Lest we forget, because it needs to be a priority for a post-NatACT government;

"A tax on tech revenue would have been one way of disincentivising techbro money-laundering. But National has cancelled it in order to grovel to Trump. But in the process, they've shown us a truth they'd rather deny: when they claim 'there is no money', it is a choice, and a lie."

@norightturnnz, 2025

norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/

norightturn.blogspot.comNational grovels to TrumpIts budget day, and the government has been whining about how it has no money and so can't afford anything. Meanwhile, they've just given aw...

Colin Peacock did a good segment on the bill proposed by National MP Catherine Wedd, aping the Australian government's attempt to ban under-16s from social media (with the head-scratching exemption for YouTub);

rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?s

Like all such laws, it would require anyone using social media to identify themselves to service hosts, so they can verify age. Corporate DataFarmers would *love* to have this information.

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A grey and blue hypnotising illustration on the background with a large title saying "Mediawatch" and words "weekly since 2001" above the title.
RNZMediawatch podcastA critical look at the New Zealand media.
#podcasts#RNZ#MediaWatch
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China's Douyin 🇨🇳, #TikTok's counterpart, limits teens to 40 mins/day & mandates real-name IDs! ByteDance aims to curb addiction but sparks privacy debates 🤔. Stricter than TikTok's 60-min limit for U.S. teens. What’s the trade-off? 🌐 #TechRegulation #PrivacyMatters #SocialMedia #oldnewz

technologyreview.com/2023/03/0

MIT Technology Review · How China takes extreme measures to keep teens off TikTokVon Zeyi Yang
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@norightturnnz
> Will Labour take on the oligarchs?

I very much hope so, but David Parker is dead wrong when he says;

"... we in the west have made a fundamental error in providing what is in effect an exclusion of liability for third party content."

I suggest reading some of the pieces Mike Masnick has published in defence of #Section230, the US equivalent of the limited liability for third-party content that Parker proposes to abolish;

techdirt.com/tag/section-230/

Techdirtsection 230 – TechdirtPosts about section 230 written by Mike Masnick, jmiers230, Leigh Beadon, and Cathy Gellis