the negative energy that is poured into driving violence emerges in large part from the sense of protection and power we have, encapsulated in our automotive exoskeleton
a similar sense of protection and power we experience at home, unseen, behind the keyboard, and we pour out our negative tension in online hatred
then there’s some complement of a “horde” effect like the one people feel at the stadium where they are surrounded by people that agree with them; an echo chamber in social network terms.
Can a president of a nation be deleted from Twitter or Facebook ? They are private services that have no obligation of universality, so the short answer is: yes, there is not an a-priori right to participate in a social. In some cases, however, some courts have ordered the companies to reinstate the excluded user because his expulsion was not legally valid and would have generated damage.
Can being on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok be an a priori right? If we’d ask a teenager, the answer would obviously be yes. A very important part of their relational life takes place in …
Here all the documents published today.
I *love* the regulatory ladder.
So today VP Vestager and Commissioner Breton introduced the drafts of the new EU digital regulation.
A very nice piece of work, I must say.
There are some very fine grained measures and more general principles. Among the latters I think that the regulatory ladder, interoperability and device neutrality are particularly worth of consideration. Also the Digital Services Coordinator is a good general principle: a nice idea to improve effectiveness of the regulation itself.
Let’s think of future amendments…
Auctioneers implement an number of strategies to push auction prices up.
Not only the auction mechanism itself like the second price auction, which is well known …
some toughts with a friend…
Work used to value people for their muscles. Most of the value came from physical manipulation activities.
Then came the industrial revolution, with machinery reducing the predominance of the muscular effort.
And we used to value people for their brains. Most of the value came from their symbol manipulation activities.
Then came the digital revolution, with AI, Big Data and the Internet reducing the predominance of the brain effort.
Ad we will value people for their hearts. Most of the value will come from human relational activities.
We trained muscles for physical manipulations
We trained brains for symbol manipulations
We will need to …
This may be one of the first examples of a changing game: Google was sanctioned because of its intermediation activity and as such, it was sanctioned where the customer of the promoted services is located.
Although the entity of the sanction is not disclosed and is likely to be rather small, it seems quite likely that they will appeal to the 2nd degree court. In Italy, wrt to the national regulation authority AGCOM, the appeal level is called TAR (Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale) and – if I’m not wrong – they have 60 days to file the appeal.
It seems to me that …
UPDATE: come qualcuno mi ha scritto nei commenti, effettivamente sovrastimavo i miei lettori (o meglio la percentuale di loro che fa skimming (legge il testo superficialmente) e non legge fino in fondo per capire che era un post sarcastico…
La situazione è veramente drammatica se una persona su 5 in Italia pensa che il virus sia fatto da Google ed Apple!
A costoro segnalo che non è nè iCovid nè Covid!
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come sapete sono stato in parlamento nella scorsa legislatura eletto con la lista di Monti (che ho subito abbandonato).
adesso ho una notizia certa, da fonte affidabilissima e non posso proprio stare zitto
ecco …
TL;DR I’m not arguing against contact tracing apps; I’m critical of Apple and Google’s approach.
In the past months our Iphones and Androids received operating systems updates, a joint effort by the two companies to help in the fight against COVID-19. The updates introduced new operating system functions for applications (APIs Application Programming Interfaces) to enable Contact Tracing apps developed by national health authorities. Without this update, Tracing Apps can’t work properly, mainly due to bluetooth power management by iphones.
When an iphone’s screen is off, it detects bluetooth beacons but does not emit them. It’s mute but not deaf. So, when …
Source (Consciousness -> Meaning -> Symbols) -> Communication ->(Symbols -> Meaning -> Consciousness) Receiving
When a person communicates with another the process may be described as above:The receiver interprets the symbols she received, extracting a meaning that she internalizes with her consciousness. The source was conscious and had the intention of communicating and a meaning of what she wanted to communicate; she codified the meaning in symbols that have been communicated.
In this act of communication both source and receiving parties need to have some shared model to base the encoding and interpretation of the meaning; a shared context and culture (a …
The important report is here.
It’s a very important and interesting reading.
A mini-synthesis of the findings in the 400 pages long report can be found in this twitter thread.
As many readers know, I have devoted a significant part of my public life to promote competition in the digital space (“dimensione immateriale”), have proposed comprehensive bills while I was in the parliament and wrote a book “Capitalismo Immateriale” (in english it’d be “Virtual Capitalism”, 5 stars rating in italy and a good number of reprints) explaining in great detail the business models and practices that this report has found applied by these …
