Month: May 2022

Will Tennessee become the next tech hub for Web3 entrepreneurs?

A new law recognizes ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ and could help the state attract blockchain-based businesses When you think about Tennessee, you’re more likely to be thinking country music, barbecue and bourbon than crypto, blockchain and Web3. The state legislature has plans to change that. Tennessee just passed a bill that could help it become a …

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Elon, Twitter is not the town square – it’s just a private shop. The square belongs to us all | John Naughton

Musk’s acquisition of the media platform will be a boon for free speech, he says. Governments are the ones to judge that On Friday 8 January 2021, Twitter kicked Donald Trump off its platform and an eerie calm enveloped parts of our global public sphere. Depriving him of his online megaphone was a compelling demonstration …

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‘Cheering section’ for violence: the attacks that show 4chan is still a threat

The Washington DC shooting was the most recent to spawn out of the extremist culture of unregulated ‘chan’ message boards When police in Washington DC burst into a fifth-floor apartment building on 22 April in search of a man who allegedly had shot four people at random, they found Raymond Spencer dead by his own …

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