PODCAST 50: Nadim Kobeissi Discusses Facebook's Coming Cryptocurrency Nadim Kobeissi, a professor at NYU and director of a cryptography consulting firm, tells Jonathan Kay about the risks posed by Libra, Facebookās new cryptocurrency. Professor Kobeissi recently wrote about Libra forĀ Quillette. Ā Image: Courtesy of Symbolic Software. Quillette 23 Aug 2019 · 1 min read
Facebook Already Controls Our Information. Donāt Let It Control Our Commerce But while other cryptocurrencies can serve to increase our personal freedom and privacy, Libra, which is scheduled for launch in 2020, likely would have the opposite effect. Nadim Kobeissi 20 Aug 2019 · 7 min read
Against Big Tech Viewpoint Discrimination Some might claim that electric power is far more of a necessity that social media access. James D. Miller 6 Jun 2019 · 4 min read
The Moral Panic Behind Internet Regulation This will make the internet a much less free place to speak compared to Speakersā Corner at Hyde Parkāthe place which is supposed to represent Britainās commitment to free speech. Matthew Lesh 30 Apr 2019 · 14 min read
Quillette Podcast 17 ā Former Facebook engineer Brian Amerige on the company's ambivalence towards free speech Quilletteās Jonathan Kay talks to Brian Amerige, a former software engineer at Facebook, about the companyās content moderation policy and why it is making a mistake in trying to prohibit hate speech. Quillette 19 Feb 2019 · 1 min read
Facebook Has a Right to Block 'Hate Speech'āBut Hereās Why It Shouldnāt The evolution of our content policy not only risked the core of Facebookās mission, but jeopardized my own alignment with the company. Brian Amerige 7 Feb 2019 · 17 min read
A Facebook Engineer's Plea for Political Diversity So far, Amerige has not been fired from Facebook as James Damore was fired from Google a year ago. Gideon Scopes 4 Sep 2018 · 7 min read
My Social-Media Suicide Note āThereās no better time than now to delete.ā (Position this one against a background of a man in canoe swimming away to a proxy of freedom.) JD Jagiello 30 Jul 2018 · 9 min read
