Episode 204: Alexa Fail

Grumpy Old Bens

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Thew The Kooky
Brian Genack
Guzman of the Midwest
Steven McConnell
Dennis Woods
Carolyn Blaney – https://hogstory.com
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Mani Schewitz
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NOTES / LINKS:

FB Oversight board scathes the platform for not censoring Trump hard enough
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/6/23495248/meta-oversight-board-cross-check-program-report-recommendations

JCPA = Journalism Competition and Preservation Act
https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-drops-media-bill-after-facebook-threatens-news-ban-us-2022-12

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/673/text

Alexa is a “colossal failure”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-colossal-failure-on-pace-to-lose-10-billion-this-year/

San Francisco Hits Pause (for Now) on Deploying ‘Killer Police Robots’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/07/san-francisco-hits-pause-for-now-on-deploying-killer-police-robots/

Congress reportedly dropped a controversial media bill after Facebook threatened to remove news from its app in the US
https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-drops-media-bill-after-facebook-threatens-news-ban-us-2022-12

Brave starts showing “privacy-preserving” ads in search results
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/brave-starts-showing-privacy-preserving-ads-in-search-results/

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