Posts with keyword: freedom

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Using a Theory of Justice to Build a Better Web3

Tue May 24 14:44:00 2022

Building a better internet won't happen by chance or simply maximizing freedom. We have to build systems that support justice. How can we do that?
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Space-Time-Travel Data Changing the World Now

Fri Sep 11 08:03:00 2009

Jeff Jonas, who is one of the world's premiere data analysis experts writes: Mobile devices in America are generating something like 600 billion geo-spatially tagged transactions per day. Every call, text message, email and data transfer handled by your mobile device creates a transaction with your space-time coordinate (to roughly 60 meters accuracy if there are three cell towers in range), whether you have GPS or not. Got a Blackberry? Every few minutes, it sends a heartbeat, creating a transaction whether you are using the phone or not. If the device is GPS-enabled and you're using a location-based service
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This Page Will Not Be Available in the Future

Wed Sep 12 09:04:00 2007

Richard Stiennon has a post about efforts by EU Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini to make search engines block certain "dangerous words" like "bomb, kill, genocide or terrorism." So, since this post has those words in it, you may not be able to read it in the future. Or maybe Orrin Hatch will figure out a way to just have computers storing such dangerous words to be destroyed by lasers or something. The most important question: who gets to decide which words are dangerous? I vote that we add "Frattini" to the list.
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