Taking a break

I’ll be back next week, but until then some things I’m reading

Hello from Green Bay, Wisconsin where I’m home visiting my family and going to a concert. It’s been an intense few weeks and so I have no column this week, but I wanted to share some of the things I’m reading this week as there’s been a lot. The UK introduced its online safety bill, a Brazilian judge ordered Telegram to shut down, but then the CEO wrote that they just hadn’t gotten the email (which to be honest I sort of believe because that kind of stuff happens all the time) and Ann Applebaum has a must-read about a topic I’ve been thinking a lot about - how we need a better plan to fight autocracy.

More stories below that I’ve been tracking this week as well. Next week I’ll be back with my regular programming.

What I’m Reading

• Rest of World - Google, Apple, Facebook and other global tech companies that are taking action against Russia 

• Deb Liu: Perspectives - Ten Things Getting in the Way of Your Execution

• Australia: ABC News - Facebook's parent company Meta plans Australian election ramp-up as it prepares for rise in misinformation and threats against politicians

• Verge - How WordPress and Tumblr are keeping the internet weird 

• TechPolicy Press - Argentina: The Right to Be Forgotten Strikes Again 

• Washington Post - Putin's pre-invasion moves against Google and Apple laid tech groundwork for crackdown 

• Bloomberg - Meta's Russia Problem Is Up to Nick Clegg, Not Mark Zuckerberg, to Solve

• Input Mag - The internet forgot about Clubhouse. Anti-war Russians didn't. 

• Human Rights Watch - Russia, Ukraine, and Social Media and Messaging Apps

• Sahar Massachi - “Integrity as city planning” meets actual city planners

• Tech Against Terrorism - Terrorist Content Analytics Platform

Events of Note

• March 23 - R Street/Integrity Institute - Content and Governance Online: Working Together for a Better Internet in Washington, DC

• April 24 - 27 - Public Affairs Council’s Advocacy Conference in Austin, TX