Technology
Super special US-based guest corespondent Courtney Mitchel returns to discuss an incident this summer where a San Francisco startup decided to no longer host a neo-Nazi website on its global CDN. Show NotesHurricane Harvey (Wikipedia)Hurricane Katrina (Wikipedia)“George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People” protest song by The Legendary K.O: (Listen) (Wikipedia). See also “Hell No We Ain’t All Right!” by Public Enemy: (Wikipedia) (YouTube)Saffir–Simpson scale of hurricane intensities (Wikipedia)Why We Terminated Daily Stormer, on the Cloudflare official blog.Cloudflare CEO admits that removing neo-Nazi site because he’s in a ‘bad mood’ is a slippery slope (CNBC)Exponent 121: The Uber Mutation, where Ben and James discuss Cloudfare and the Daily Stormer incident.What The Alt-Right Wears And Why (Nylon)Facebook real-name policy controversy (Wikipedia)Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children (ProPublica)Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is? (New York Magazine) Relevant, but published after we recorded.‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia (The Guardian) Relevant, but published after we recorded.Exponent 79: Twerk the Algorithm, where Ben and James discuss an early ill-fated attempt by Facebook to improve the quality of news on their platform.Information wants to be free (Wikipedia)The Internet is making us stupid, a decade-old interview on Salon with some surprisingly relevant insights on the effect of technology on discourse.The Case for Reparations, by Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Atlantic.Richard Rorty’s 1998 Book Suggested Election 2016 Was Coming (New York Times)Refusing to Tolerate Intolerance, by Julia Serano on Medium.Paris Hilton’s Dogs Have a Nicer House Than You Do (See Photos) (People)Backups with Restic, A Raspberry Pi, and a 4TB HDD (morimori.tokyo)Friday’s Widespread Internet Outage in Japan (morimori.tokyo)