… The answer may be more political than technical. “When you are enforcing your content moderation policy against an entire platform, you are subjecting yourself to the blowback that will happen,” Anupam Chander, a professor of law and technology at Georgetown, tells The Verge. …
… Peter Chapman, associate director of the Knight-Georgetown Institute, which works to connect policymakers and others with independent tech policy research, said there could be “significant tradeoffs” to a prohibition on encryption, and other changes may be more effective. …
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… Content policy is a living, breathing thing. It has to change as culture changes, it has to change as the internet changes. Now, there’s nonconsensual, AI-generated nudity. That was not a thing that platforms and payment processors had to worry about four years ago. …
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Roblox is promising more changes to its child safety features following testing from Australia’s online safety regulator, eSafety. eSafety has been looking into concerns that the company hasn’t been in compliance with Australia’s Online Safety Act, including “allegedly failing to have sufficient me… …
… The company is also planning big changes that will affect developers: It’s going to require new third-party apps to use the developer platform instead of the API. “We envision a future where all good, trusted automation on Reddit runs within an ecosystem that allows us to offer support and enforce … …
ArXiv, a popular platform for preprint academic research, is taking a new step to attempt to reduce the volume of papers that include AI slop. …
… The company also operates an iOS app store in the European Union, Japan, and Brazil, following Apple policy changes forced by legislation in those markets. …
… Technically, the court’s permanent injunction states that Google “may not prohibit the distribution of third-party Android app distribution platforms or stores through the Google Play Store,” not that it has to proactively invite them in. …