The Chinese government is requiring some citizens to use a smartphone app made in partnership with Ant Financial, the country’s largest digital-payments company, to determine whether users are at risk from the novel coronavirus, The New York Times reported. The app, known as Alipay Health Code, is being piloted in 200 Chinese cities and will eventually be used across the country, the newspaper...
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This is the month that net neutrality died. But maybe, if we strengthen other checks on the power of tech and telecom company executives, we don’t need to mourn its loss. I believe the inevitable outcome of the horrifying political violence on January 6 is that content noninterference will soon become a fringe position. With each new incident of violence, calls for deplatforming by...
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