You could also spin it the other way, the only countries that have banned twitter so far are very authoritarian or dictatorships. Why does "Brazil being run by Silva" want to be part of the club?
The missing context here is that the "misinformation accounts" that X was supposed to remove here are spreading the right wing propaganda saying the election was stolen from far-right sweetheart Jair Bolsonaro. On the other hand, the requests in India and Turkey are coming from, you guessed it, far right sweetheart Modi and Erdogan governments.
If you think Elon is doing this to defend "freedom of speech" I have a beautiful bridge to sell you.
I assume selection bias is in play: for every post on the internet there are many more who did break their hand and ended up in ER, they were just too ashamed to talk about it.
> keeping the government away from internet is a good thing
See, I would have agreed more with this if most of our internet infrastructures were not controlled by three megacorps with more power than many small to medium sized economies in the world. As it stands, the only valid option is to fight fire with fire.
If anti competitive corporations are the problem, why not pursue these monopolistic companies using the existing anti-trust laws? Why does there need to be a new law with the FCC involved?
No, likely in anticipation of the rules being changed back.
Better question for you. Why did ISPs attempt to fake support for repealing Net Neutrality [0][1], as well as spend money lobbying Congress? You'll note in that article that there were also fake comments in support of Net Neutrality, apparently mostly generated by one individual, but many, many fake comments against it from ISPs that even used real people's identities [2].
These aren't the actions a company takes if they don't have incentive.
No, because California and 12 other states, as well as quite a few local governments, passed their own net neutrality laws. The larger, national ISPs were pretty hamstrung: they couldn't really follow the NN laws in the places where they existed, but then impose non-neutral terms in the places where they didn't, without running into lots of trouble.
A federal rule is good, though, to harmonize things, even if the state/local laws were more or less already doing the job.
A small addendum: the only people I know who uses Jax are people who work at Google, or people who had a big GCP grant and needed to use TPUs as a result.
> Why not just emailed the original authors for the raw data?
Industry research labs, especially Google deepmind, are notoriously closed up about their “proprietary” data. I’ve hit this wall multiple times in my own work in AI.
[1] https://theintercept.com/2023/03/28/twitter-modi-india-punja...
[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/musk-defends-ena...