The US Government missed an opportunity to talk about an open and accessible internet during the #TikTok debate.
Make it about US and western platforms not being able to access the Chinese market, but the Chinese platforms being to access the Western ones.
Market access, market power, data collection, monetisation, etc. So many opportunities to push reform and transparency in these spaces and instead all the oxygen is sucked out of the room being fixated on a single company.
Maybe it will take the NEXT generation of legislators to get it.
Holy crap, Nilay Patel just ruthlessly corners Substack’s CEO Chris Best on moderating racist content and I love it
Last night's northern lights. Vertical shot. You probably want to click this one to see it bigger. This was a good show.
This is actually looking south. They were all around last night.