By Bloomberg PUBLISHED: March 31, 2019 at 7:41 am | UPDATED: March 31, 2019 at 8:45 am By Matthew G. Miller and Selina Wang | Bloomberg Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg called for new global regulations governing the internet on Saturday, recommending overarching rules on hateful and violent content, election integrity, privacy and data portability. In a statement that was also published as an op-ed in the Washington Post, Zuckerberg said the company is seeking regulations that would set baselines for prohibited content and require companies to build systems for keeping harmful content to a minimum. “We have a responsibility to keep people safe on our services,” he said. “That means deciding what counts as terrorist propaganda, hate speech and more. We continually review our policies with experts, but at our scale we’ll always make mistakes and decisions that people disagree with.” Zuckerberg’s comments mark his most visible … [Read more...] about Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg calls for global internet regulations
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India’s Newest Internet Users Are Addicted to These Apps From China
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By Newley Purnell WSJ Thu., March 14, 2019 NEW DELHI—Some of China’s quirkiest social-media firms are signing up hundreds of millions of consumers in India, tech’s biggest untapped market, looking to capture users who aren’t already locked into Facebook, Twitter or other American apps. Chinese content-sharing apps such as Bigo Inc.’s Like and Bigo Live, along with Bytedance Ltd.’s Helo and TikTok, are taking off in this country of 1.3 billion, where most people are getting online for the first time using low-cost smartphones and dirt-cheap data plans. These apps, with ad-supported models, feature hours and hours of mostly wacky and often titillating content: brief videos of slapstick gags, girls blowing kisses, patriotic songs, teens twerking to the latest Bollywood hits and more. Their simple interfaces appeal to users such as Asha Limbu, a 31-year-old from the northeastern state of Manipur who works as a housekeeper in New … [Read more...] about India’s Newest Internet Users Are Addicted to These Apps From China
How Huawei’s ‘wolf cuture’ helped to grow — and got it into trouble
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By Raymond Zhong The New York Times Fri., Dec. 21, 2018 SHENZHEN, CHINA—Earthquakes, terrorist attacks and low oxygen levels on Mount Everest could not hold them back. As Chinese tech giant Huawei expanded around the globe, supplying equipment to bring mobile phone and data service to the planet’s farthest reaches, its employees were urged on by a culture that celebrated daring feats in pursuit of new business. They worked gruelling hours. They were encouraged to bend certain company rules, so long as doing so enriched the company and not employees personally, according to Huawei workers interviewed by The New York Times. Employees at the company and people who have studied it have a name for its hard-charging corporate spirit: “wolf culture.” Now, the company’s aggressive ways have been cast in a new light. The United States has accused Meng Wanzhou, a top Huawei executive and daughter of its founder, of committing bank fraud to help … [Read more...] about How Huawei’s ‘wolf cuture’ helped to grow — and got it into trouble
All the Ways in Which Your Smartphone Can Track You and How to Put an End to It
Aren't you just a little creeped out at how those ads follow you around? These apps can help. Parth Misra Published 1:30 pm CST, Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Photo: Nazar Abbas Photography | Getty Images Photo: Nazar Abbas Photography | Getty Images Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Photo: Nazar Abbas Photography | Getty Images All the Ways in Which Your Smartphone Can Track You and How to Put an End to It 1 / 1 Back to Gallery A friend and I had the strangest discussion: He had been at a jewelry shop, looking for something for his wife. And, never one to browse among such shops' glittery merchandise, he had hoped to make a quick stop, pick up the best option his … [Read more...] about All the Ways in Which Your Smartphone Can Track You and How to Put an End to It
Money and Muscle Pave China’s Way to Global Power
NOV. 25, 2018 Beijing is leveraging its commercial and military might to redraw the terms of trade, diplomacy and security, challenging the liberal democratic order. China Rules They didn’t like the West’s playbook. So they wrote their own. Part 3 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 Beijing is leveraging its commercial and military might to redraw the terms of trade, diplomacy and security, challenging the liberal democratic order. By PETER S. GOODMAN and JANE PERLEZ Photographs by BRYAN DENTON NOV. 25, 2018 Under a merciless sun, a dozen Chinese construction workers survey an empty expanse of desert, preparing to transform it into the heart of a new Egyptian capital. The workers are employed by China’s largest construction conglomerate through a $3 billion contract from an Egyptian company, with financing from Chinese banks. They are erecting a thicket of 21 … [Read more...] about Money and Muscle Pave China’s Way to Global Power