Episode 15

Super special US-based guest corespondent Courtney Mitchel returns to discuss an incident this summer where a San Francisco startup decided to no longer host a neo-Nazi website on its global CDN.

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Show Notes

• Hurricane Harvey (Wikipedia)
• Hurricane Katrina (Wikipedia)
• “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People” protest song by The Legendary K.O: (Listen) (Wikipedia). See also “Hell No We Ain’t All Right!” by Public Enemy: (Wikipedia) (YouTube)
• Saffir–Simpson scale of hurricane intensities (Wikipedia)
• Why We Terminated Daily Stormer, on the Cloudflare official blog.
• Cloudflare CEO admits that removing neo-Nazi site because he’s in a ‘bad mood’ is a slippery slope (CNBC)
• Exponent 121: The Uber Mutation, where Ben and James discuss Cloudfare and the Daily Stormer incident.
• What The Alt-Right Wears And Why (Nylon)
• Facebook real-name policy controversy (Wikipedia)
• Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children (ProPublica)
• Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is? (New York Magazine) Relevant, but published after we recorded.
• ‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia (The Guardian) Relevant, but published after we recorded.
• Exponent 79: Twerk the Algorithm, where Ben and James discuss an early ill-fated attempt by Facebook to improve the quality of news on their platform.
• Information wants to be free (Wikipedia)
• The Internet is making us stupid, a decade-old interview on Salon with some surprisingly relevant insights on the effect of technology on discourse.
• The Case for Reparations, by Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Atlantic.
• Richard Rorty’s 1998 Book Suggested Election 2016 Was Coming (New York Times)
• Refusing to Tolerate Intolerance, by Julia Serano on Medium.
• Paris Hilton’s Dogs Have a Nicer House Than You Do (See Photos) (People)
• Backups with Restic, A Raspberry Pi, and a 4TB HDD (morimori.tokyo)
• Friday’s Widespread Internet Outage in Japan (morimori.tokyo)