Věra Jourová是欧洲司法、消费者和两性平等事务专员。从前，她有一个Facebook账户。事情进展不顺利。”在很短的一段时间内，我有一个Facebook帐户，”Jourová在周四的新闻发布会上说那是一条泥路。我没想到会有这么多仇恨涌入。我决定取消这个账户，因为我意识到这样做后，欧洲的仇恨会减少。”

当然，**和非**用户长期以来都喜欢以华丽的方式退出社交媒体。“为什么我要离开Twitter”这篇文章是我们这一代人的“为什么我要离开纽约”活字条目。

但乔罗娃的话比大多数人都更有分量。她对Facebook有政策上的不满，也有强制执行的手段。Jourová说Facebook的服务条款具有误导性，并呼吁该公司澄清这些条款。周四，在另一个垃圾频道Twitter.com上发布的帖子中，她说：

“I want #Facebook to be extremely clear to its users about how their service operates and makes money. Not many people know that #Facebook has made available their data to third parties or that for instance it holds full copyright about any picture or content you put on it.”

显然，作为界面的忠实读者，您已经知道这两件事。但我们在欧洲市场的渗透率仍然很低(将此电子邮件转发给朋友！）

Jourová说，如果Facebook不喜欢很快从该公司听到的消息，欧洲当局明年可能会对其进行制裁。”我很清楚，我们不能永远谈判，”她在新闻发布会上说我们需要看到结果。”

与此同时，Facebook显然存在欧洲问题。在《华尔街日报》上，Valentina Pop和Sam Schechner提醒我们最近针对该公司的所有其他监管行动：

The sharply worded salvo comes on top of a series of legislative proposals and regulatory acti*** from Europe aimed at reining in the power and perceived excesses of a cadre of big tech companies. The EU in May implemented a sweeping new privacy law, GDPR, and its parliament recently approved a draft copyright bill aimed at making Silicon Valley companies pay more money to support music firms and news publishers.

与此同时，BuzzFeed的Alex Wickham报道说，英国内政部和数字、文化、媒体和体育部正在起草自己的新法规：

BuzzFeed News has obtained details of the proposals, which would see the establishment of an internet regulator similar to Ofcom, which regulates broadcasters, telecoms, and postal communicati***.

Home secretary Sajid Javid and culture secretary Jeremy Wright are c***idering the introduction of a mandatory code of practice for social media platforms and strict new rules such as “takedown times” forcing websites to remove illegal hate speech within a set timeframe or face penalties. Ministers are also looking at implementing age verification for users of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

这些都是问题，尽管不是无法克服的。Facebook可以很容易地修改其服务条款。它可能会适应更快的拆卸时间要求，就像它在德国已经做的那样，以及年龄验证要求。

本·汤普森（Ben Thompson）经常提出的一点是，像这样的要求往往只会巩固现任者的地位。如果一家英国初创公司想要建立一个社交网络，那么它多久会有一个全球调节团队，能够在几个小时内完成发布？建立年龄验证需要多少资金？

换言之，欧洲监管可能以牺牲欧洲工业为代价。它们还可能加强美国科技巨头的主导地位。

不过，这并不意味着Facebook、谷歌和朋友们在这里没有什么可担心的。对于最近的海外监管热潮，让我印象最深的不是任何一项提案，而是它们来得有多快。

以及它们堆积的高度。

民主

在主板调查、民权反弹之后，Facebook正在重新审视其白人民族主义政策

Facebook最奇怪的政策之一是，要求版主允许平台上出现“白人分离主义”和“白人民族主义”，但这并不是“白人至上”。该公司认为白人民族主义“似乎并不总是与种族主义相关联（至少没有明确地联系）。”这足以说明，这一政策已被那些明显带有种族主义色彩的人利用，其明确目的是在Facebook上传播种族主义。公司现在将“审查”政策，约瑟夫·考克斯和杰森·科布勒报告：

On Wednesday, Facebook told Motherboard it had received the committee’s letter, and it was reviewing the specific policy. In its letter, the committee pointed to a Facebook Page promoting white nationali** called “It’s okay to be white” which had over 13,000 followers; another called “American White History Month 2” that posts supremacist, nationalist, and separatist memes with over 254,000 followers; and “Nationalist Agenda,” a page focused on “Preserving [European] Racial and Cultural Heritage with over 8,000 followers. Facebook told Motherboard it has now taken action against the violating content and the individuals behind it.

国家隐私法之争迫在眉睫

哈珀·内迪格（Harper Neidig）向我们介绍了科技公司努力通过一项国家隐私法，以削弱加利福尼亚州消费者权益倡导者刚刚通过的隐私法：

Chester, who says public interest groups are banding together to come up with their own legislative principles, believes the frameworks being pushed by industry lobbyists don’t go far enough.

“What has to happen is the basic business practices have to change,” he said. “We believe there need to be restricti*** on how these companies engage in data collection. These so-called principles are really principles to undermine privacy, not to protect it.“

Facebook将在2020年竞选中减少对特朗普的直接支持

Facebook因在2016年大选特朗普竞选活动中“嵌入”员工以帮助其有效购买广告而受到批评(克林顿阵营拒绝使用嵌入式系统。）现在Facebook表示将收回这一努力，莎拉·弗里尔和詹妮弗·雅各布斯报道：

The company will still offer technical support and basic training to candidate campaigns and political advocacy organizati***, but it won’t visit campaign headquarters with as much frequency or provide as much strategic support as it did for Trump ahead of the 2016 election. Instead, Facebook officials said they are working to improve the company’s political advertising website to give free advice to campaigns more equitably.

特朗普启动新的国家网络战略

香农·瓦夫拉（Shannon Vavra）详细介绍了该国正在采取哪些措施保护自己免受外国巨魔和黑客的攻击：

In the absence of an overarching cybersecurity doctrine, government agencies have been limited in how they can legitimately deter foreign adversaries and respond to cyberattacks — even as the attacks are escalating exponentially

This comes at a time when the administration has been bleeding cyber talent and facing critici** for its approach to election security — it eliminated the role of cybersecurity coordinator earlier this year, and the FBI has been losing cyber talent as well.

新文件揭露加州选举窃听事件

这一新的网络战略非常必要：安迪克罗尔报道，加州民主党人布莱恩·卡福里奥（Bryan Caforio）是最新一位可能遭遇外国网络攻击的人。

Twitch现在在中国被封锁

据Shannon Liao报道，亚马逊旗下的直播网站Twitch目前在中国被屏蔽：

The major game streaming site is largely no longer accessible and its app has been removed from Apple’s local App Store, after it saw a noticeable boost in popularity last month, as spotted by Abacus.

Last month, Twitch hit the No. 3 spot among free apps in China, as locals began downloading the app to watch e-sports matches at the Asian Games. State-run broadcaster CCTV chose not to air the Asian Games, so users had to find alternative ways to watch the competition, especially as China performed well during the event and brought back two gold medals. Although the performance wasn’t streamed through the major broadcaster, China’s two wins were later covered by state-run media.

硅谷不会承诺保护记者。议员们，你起来了。

可以想象，记者们可能会因为以报道为名盗用Facebook等网站而被起诉。奈特研究所呼吁Facebook在其服务条款中为新闻业开辟一个安全港例外：

The letter, citing my newly published report by the Tow Center for Digital Journali**, lists a variety of journalists who have continued to pursue stories on Silicon Valley despite possible penalty under the CFAA. For instance, the Knight letter cites a Gizmodo report that explored Facebook’s algorithms identifying “people you know” and a New York Timesarticle that exposed fake accounts. The letter also names a PBS Newshour reporter whose story about political advertisements was completely stymied for fear of penalty.

Facebook was asked to respond to the Knight letter by last Friday. To date there has been minimal public resp***e by the company. A statement by Campbell Brown, the head of the company’s global news partnerships, reads: “We do have strict limits in place on how third parties can use people’s information, and we recognize that these sometimes get in the way of this work.” The company has not, however, amended or removed those limits. (Editor’s note: The Knight Institute informed the author, after posting, that Facebook reached out to them in resp***e to the letter. The Institute and Facebook are in continuing discussi*** about the “safe harbor” proposal.)

自由派Facebook广告背后的神秘公司将一名夏威夷代表称为“CWILF”

拉克兰·马凯（Lachlan Markay）发现“一个由Facebook页面组成的庞大网络，运行着由少数几家公司付费的广告，这些公司追踪到科罗拉多州的一家民主党律师事务所。”这些广告非常粗俗：

A pair of posts promoted this week on a Facebook page titled The Keg Bros contained two videos, one attacking Republican megadonor Rebekah Mercer and one hailing Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard. “Hawaii’s Tulsi Gabbard makes us want to go Democrat,” reads text in one of the videos, interspersed with footage of Mike Myers’ Austin Powers mouthing “hot hot hot.” It adds, “America’s voted, and she’s the hottest member of Congress on either side of the aisle.”

广告最后宣布Gabbard是“认证的C.W.I.L.F.”，大概是“我想干的国会议员”的缩写

在别处

“令人毛骨悚然的线”评论：反谷歌纪录片是右翼科技界反对的合谋新剧本

Adi Robertson回顾了一部关于谷歌和Facebook的纪录片《骇人听闻的线》，该纪录片将对隐私和echo chambers的批评变成了反保守审查的阴谋：

In other words, the film epitomizes a popular claim that Silicon Valley is censoring American c***ervatives on web platforms. This claim plays on bipartisan fears about the power of internet gatekeepers, and it’s sparked several lawsuits, multiple congressional hearings, and a few tweetstorms from President Donald Trump. But the evidence has been mostly speculative or anecdotal, and The Creepy Line is supposed to provide a rigorous, scientific ****ysis to back it up. Instead, it’s a blinkered and misleading guide to how internet platforms work.

名人财富的大秘密（就是没人知道任何事情）

下面是一个很棒的小故事，讲述了一个没有已知方法的垃圾网站如何为谷歌提供一系列关于名人网络价值的热门搜索的答案：

The American media has printed guesses and lies about celebrities for as long as the two have existed; that’s hardly Google or Amazon’s fault. But because “the internet” has become our default source for information, it is easier for tabloid facts to circulate under credible logos. The trivia that results can be hard to dispel.

And a high reported net worth can make a difference out here in the real world. According to Jonathan Greenberg, a former Forbes writer, Donald Trump often tried to game the Fortune 400 list, repeatedly inflating reports of his wealth in order to bolster the impression of him as an iconically rich guy. That tactic has worked out pretty well for him so far.

得益于Instagram，饱受诟病的建筑风格再次流行起来

詹姆斯·塔米（James Tarmy）说，将原材料混凝土结构突然升值的原因归咎于Instagram：

That renewed attention, McLeod says, translated into c***ervation efforts. “Brutali** sort of came into its own with these groundswell, grassroots movements.” Perhaps most prominent, the SOS Brutali** campaign (#so**rutali**), which in turn became an exhibition, which in turn produced a book, became a global effort to save dozens of the world’s brutalist buildings.

“Just the act of simply ‘liking’ something meant that those ‘likes’ turned into c***ervation campaigns,” McLeod says. The Sirius apartment building in Australia, for instance, faced demolition last year, but was ultimately saved by a campaign—#saveoursirius—that logged 2,964 posts on Instagram.

发射

Facebook约会今天在哥伦比亚举行测试

我与阿什利·卡曼（Ashley Carman）合作，她密切关注我们的约会应用程序，并就Facebook约会在哥伦比亚的推出撰写了以下文章：

Facebook Dating is now a reality. Four months after announcing that it would add dating features, the social network said today that it has begun testing its new dating product in Colombia. At first glance, Facebook Dating closely resembles compe***** Hinge. Both depart from the swiping model popularized by Tinder in favor of asking users to answer question prompts and start conversati*** based on something in a person’s profile. What sets Facebook Dating apart is its integration with Groups and Events, drawing on other aspects of Facebook to expand the dating pool and encourage users to meet in public.

“Dating has been a behavior that we’ve seen on Facebook for a really long time,” product manager Nathan Sharp said in an interview with The Verge. “We want to make it easier and more comfortable for people to engage in. We just thought that now was the right time.”

Instagram可能会让用户开始对帖子隐藏标签

好!！

拿

Kanye West关于社交媒体粉丝数量的看法是正确的

Madison Malone Kirchner写道，Kanye West的推特减去粉丝数的概念是一个好的概念(对位：否则我该如何衡量我的自我价值？）

Are there merits to metrics? Sure. Of course. Follower and like counts can help approximate credibility: The accounts that many Twitter users deem worth following are more likely to be credible. But there are many excepti*** to that rule — super-viral accounts with milli*** of followers and crap content. And most of us aren’t boasting follower counts in the milli*** and retweet counts in the hundreds of thousands anyway. Instead, we play a calculation game, tweeting for our **all audiences and watching — and hoping — our various numbers go up. And when you really stop to think about that … it’s a weird, potentially damaging, way to live.

您现在可以直接在Instagram中发送GIF

我非常不受欢迎的观点是，GIF被高估了。没有人想看一部关于你感受的短片。

最后。。。

社会资本创始人对公司动荡的描述（美元）

Chamath Palihapitiya在Facebook发展的早期曾领导过它的成长团队，去年他说社交媒体正在撕裂社会，这引起了轰动。今年，他开始在他的风险投资公司社会资本流失合伙人。在将公司内部混乱的可信报道斥为“假新闻”后，他在信息中心接受了里德·阿尔伯格蒂的采访，以澄清他真正站在哪一边。事实证明，他所站的那一边是查玛斯的：

“I would rather spend time with the people that are 100% aligned with what I want to do and the person that’s most aligned with what I want to do is me,” he said.

祝贺查马斯的自我调整。不知怎的，我怀疑我们即将看到更多的社会资本员工在门外站起来。

跟我说

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