THIS.👇🏻 Every single time my kids ask me if I can download a game for them, all I want to do is see what kind of in-app purchases it has. That information needs to be better organized and more prominently displayed.

Quoting @atomicbird: https://mastodon.social/@atomicbird/109684430167299018

I spent a good part of this year investigating Google's ad business. Today we published a story about trying to crack open its black box ad network.

Unlike its competitors, Google conceals nearly all publishers it works with and where billions of ad dollars flow. We found that Google's vast ad network contains manga piracy, porn, fraud and disinformation.

Give it a read: https://www.propublica.org/article/google-display-ads-piracy-porn-fraud

A long-form discussion of why I think it’s important to be specific when we’re debating free speech. Are we talking law, culture, or decency?

https://popehat.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-free-speech-pedantry?sd=pf