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Your Speech, Their Rules: Meet the People Who Guard the Internet

Tech platform trust and safety employees are charged with policing the impossible. They open up to Medium’s head of trust and safety. — When Facebook started 15 years ago, it didn’t set out to adjudicate the speech rights of 2.2 billion people. Twitter never asked to decide which of the 500 million tweets posted each day are jokes and which are hate speech. YouTube’s early mission wasn’t to determine if a video shot…

Trust And Safety

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Your Speech, Their Rules: Meet the People Who Guard the Internet
Your Speech, Their Rules: Meet the People Who Guard the Internet
Trust And Safety

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May 28

A Natural History of Trust & Safety

“Where did Trust & Safety come from?” and related questions. Scattered thoughts, riffs, and conjectures. Not actual history. — In the beginning, there were harms. No, not yet. First, there’s an idea, a product, a company. You’ve made an app where people can express themselves in some way (text, images, videos, something else, some combo of them…) and with some ingenious and distinctive features (everything is ephemeral… or permanent…

Technology

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A Natural History of Trust & Safety
A Natural History of Trust & Safety
Technology

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The Medium Blog

·Jun 12, 2018

The Age of Robocopyright?

What is Article 13? The European Parliament is set to vote next week on a proposed new law: the copyright directive. Article 13 is part of that law, and applies to “certain uses of protected content by online services.” The world contemplated by Article 13 is a whole other Internet. It would require websites…

Copyright

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The Age of Robocopyright?
The Age of Robocopyright?
Copyright

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The Medium Blog

·Oct 22, 2015

Let’s take it to Medium

Earlier this week, a conversation that began last summer about tech and work came back to life on Medium. Monday morning, Amazon’s Jay Carney posted a statement revisiting the New York Times’ August story about work culture at Amazon. A few hours later, Dean Baquet of the Times responded. …

Medium

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Medium

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The Medium Blog

·Sep 23, 2015

Good Embed

One of our goals at Medium is to treat our users better than anyone else. And a way we do this is by trying to make it actually clear (not just legally defensible) what we are doing with data and analytics. To this end, we’ve designed Medium to respect users…

Medium

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Good Embed
Good Embed
Medium

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The Medium Blog

·Sep 22, 2015

Medium’s Commitment to Net Neutrality

Yesterday afternoon Medium co-filed an amicus brief in support of net neutrality at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. This brief is a joint effort with Automattic, Reddit, Squarespace, Yelp, and Twitter. We’re glad to be part of this group and proud of the brief. …

Net Neutrality

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Net Neutrality

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The Medium Blog

·Sep 8, 2015

Blocking and Tracking

Some Medium users have noticed that ad-blockers are blocking legit parts of Medium, such as our first-party analytics and icons. This is not good because they prevent you from making fullest use of the site (and at worst, new users might not realize what’s missing). …

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Jul 2, 2015

On the Death of a Very Good Lawyer I Never Met

I’ve been thinking on and off about Mark Levy since I read he shot himself. I’m writing this to try and figure out why. This was in April 2009, a few weeks before I finished law school. Things were bad. People got laid off. Escorted each other to the iceberg…

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