Google has stopped accepting political ads in Singapore months before a widely expected election. Reuters reports: In email correspondence between the Singapore Democratic Party and a senior Google public policy official, the tech firm said it “will not accept advertising regulated by the Code of Practice for Transparency of Online Political Advertisements.” The new code of practice, part of a controversial…
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Facebook Bows to Singapore’s ‘Fake News’ Law, Posts ‘Correction’
An anonymous reader quotes the BBC: Facebook has added a correction notice to a post that Singapore’s government said contained false information. It is the first time Facebook has issued such a notice under the city-state’s controversial “fake news” law. Singapore claimed the post, by fringe news site States Times Review, contained “scurrilous accusations”. The note issued by the social media…
Netflix Cancels Rebooted ‘Mystery Science Theatre 3000’
Netflix’s reboot of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 made this year’s “Best Of” lists from both The New York Times and Rotten Tomatoes. Yet apparently their bosses didn’t like them, and have shot them into space. Forbes reports: In a controversial move poisoning Thanksgiving for many indie comedy fans, Mystery Science Theater 3000 host Jonah Ray tweeted that Netflix has cancelled the…
Controversial DNA screening technique used for at least one pregnancy
A company says at least one woman is pregnant after using a controversial DNA screening technique to analyse thousands of DNA variants in developing embryos Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2224569-controversial-dna-screening-technique-used-for-at-least-one-pregnancy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Tesla’s new Cybertruck breaks during live demo
The reveal of Tesla’s controversial new super-tough cyberpunk truck didn’t go quite according to plan. It might look like the DeLorean from ‘Back to t… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/332290/teslas-new-cybertruck-breaks-during-live-demo…
Debian Project Drafts General Resolution on Init-System Diversity
Debian “is heading toward a new general resolution to decide at what level init systems other than systemd should be supported,” reports LWN.net. “I’m absolutely convinced we’ve reached a point where in order to respect the people trying to get work done, we need to figure out where we are as a project,” writes Debian project leader Sam Hartman. “We can…
Andrew Yang Wants To Tax Digital Ads, Launch a New Algorithm Regulator
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: On Thursday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang put out a sweeping new tech policy proposal with a number of controversial proposals, including taxing digital ads and launching a new department to regulate algorithms on social networks. […] In his Thursday blog post, Yang argues that his opponents’ calls to break-up big…
The NYPD Kept an Illegal Database of Juvenile Fingerprints For Years
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Intercept: For years, the New York Police Department illegally maintained a database containing the fingerprints of thousands of children charged as juvenile delinquents — in direct violation of state law mandating that police destroy these records after turning them over to the state’s Division of Criminal Justice Services. When lawyers representing some of…