Nov 4, 2021
Read Chapter 3 on free speech
AMP is a website format for, according to Google, faster loading (partly because the content was hosted on Google's CDN) and improved readability on mobile devices. Google introduced it about five years ago, partly out of frustration with poor website appearance on mobile (which made Android look bad).
Google also promised that AMP-enabled sites would be ranked higher in Google search.
Wait a minute.... Isn't that Google threatening sites that didn't jump on the AMP bandwagon with lower rankings? The newer theory is that AMP was a ruse for allowing Google to take over the Internet. They even have a name for it: Project NERA, to create an Internet that was "not owned but operated".
Another part of Project NERA was "forcing" everyone using Chrome to log in to their Google accounts. You could manually log out, but then you'd lose access to Gmail.
Also, AMP sites do not in fact load faster.
And, there's more! AMP is incompatible with header bidding! An amazing coincidence!
See more at www.theregister.com/2021/11/01/google_opinion_column, which also alleges that Google gets 42% of ad revenue, basically skimmed from the pockets of publishers.
That's the name given to the EU policy to allow (and eventually require) all communications providers to have access to all messages generated by their customers. In other words, it is a ban on end-to-end message encryption. The EU has already approved the voluntary version; the mandatory version will be voted on in December 2021.
See www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/?lang=en (the site chatcontrol.eu redirects to that).
This is the system that identifies faces in photos you upload, so as to make it easier for you to tag those people. The idea, as usual, was to promote engagement by making photo uploads simpler.
Facebook is now dismantling this system, though they will keep the underlying technology, and they will discard the facial data they have gleaned from all those photos.
See www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/technology/facebook-facial-recognition.html.
Hate speech
LICRA v Yahoo
Google and the Right to be Forgotten
Got to the ECJ ruling on whether Google must remove content worldwide