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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.
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.
Some might claim that electric power is far more of a necessity that social media access.
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.
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.
The evolution of our content policy not only risked the core of Facebook’s mission, but jeopardized my own alignment with the company.
So far, Amerige has not been fired from Facebook as James Damore was fired from Google a year ago.
“There’s no better time than now to delete.” (Position this one against a background of a man in canoe swimming away to a proxy of freedom.)