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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, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency. Professor Kobeissi recently wrote about Libra for Quillette. Image: Courtesy of Symbolic Software.

Quillette

23 Aug 2019 · 1 min read

Facebook Already Controls Our Information. Don’t 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

NARRATED: Watching My Own Excommunication—on a Facebook Video by Sky Gilbert

Greg Ellis reads Watching My Own Excommunication—on a Facebook Video, Sky Gilbert’s essay about being expelled from a theater company that he founded for being insufficiently woke. It was published in Quillette on 1st June 2019.

Quillette

25 Jul 2019 · 1 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 Speakers’ Corner at Hyde Park—the place which is supposed to represent Britain’s commitment to free speech.

Matthew Lesh

30 Apr 2019 · 14 min read

Quillette Podcast 17 – Former Facebook engineer Brian Amerige on the company's ambivalence towards free speech

Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to Brian Amerige, a former software engineer at Facebook, about the company’s content moderation policy and why it is making a mistake in trying to prohibit hate speech.

Quillette

19 Feb 2019 · 1 min read