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Goodbye to Twitter

Posted on November 9, 2024 by bhaggart

Just 30 minutes ago, I deactivated by Twitter account. This is the second time I’ve done this, but I’m pretty sure this time the breakup will be permanent. Everyone’s got their breaking point, as Gord Downie once noted. So what … Continue reading →

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Some thoughts on platform governance and Bill C-18 (The Online News Act)

Posted on August 9, 2023 by bhaggart

Wrote this up on Twitter (y’all know what I’m talking about, so no need to call it something else), reposting it here. Basically calling for critics to engage with the past decade (and longer) of literature on platform governance, especially … Continue reading →

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Facebook hires privacy critics: What’s the opposite of “cautious optimism”?

Posted on February 1, 2019 by bhaggart

It’s been fascinating to watch American digital-rights activists react to Facebook’s hiring of three prominent privacy-focused lawyers, particularly the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Nate Cardozo (the other hires were Open Technology Institute’s Robyn Greene and Nathan White from Access Now). Overall, … Continue reading →

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Regulating Facebook: Radical change or the status quo?

Posted on May 2, 2018 by bhaggart

(I’m currently travelling through Brazil interviewing people for a book project on knowledge governance, hence the untimeliness of this post. (What’s the opposite of the hot take? Cool reasoning?) But since I haven’t seen this opinion anywhere else, and because … Continue reading →

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