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twitter Twitter now allows "non-toxic slurs" as long as the slurs are not hate speech Thom Dunn

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facial recognition NIST confirms that facial recognition is a racist, sexist dumpster-fire Cory Doctorow

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censorship Report: China now blocks Wikipedia in all languages Rob Beschizza

AI Gmail's automated spam-filtering is making it much harder to run an independent mail-server Cory Doctorow

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