Mark Nottingham

Co-chair IETF HTTP Working Group, W3C BoD, standards lead at Cloudflare. Former W3C TAG and Internet Architecture Board. Interested in the intersection of legal regulation and technical standards.

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2024-09-19 11:49:51

ios18 is going well.
https://techpolicy.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/164/064/417/115/422/original/e26fdc39fec0e809.png

2024-09-17 13:32:48

The true power of intermediary platforms.
"Google is free, for instance, to use the secrets it collects to help PepsiCo sell you more sugar. And to help your insurance company charge you more for drinking that sugar. And to help Novo Nordisk sell you Wegovy if the sugar puts too much weight on you. And the corporation is free to help powerful actors manipulate your political thinking, by packaging their lies in ways Google knows will most trigger your attention."
https://harpers.org/archive/2024/10/the-antitrust-revolution-big-tech-barry-c-lynn/

2024-09-12 07:00:04

Katherine Kemp summarises the dismal state of privacy law reform in Australia.
https://theconversation.com/long-overdue-australian-privacy-law-reform-is-here-and-its-still-not-fit-for-the-digital-era-238214

2024-09-03 21:16:25

People say that AI is killing the Web, but content farms existed and were a problem king before AI took off.
What they both share is a profit motive this is satisfied by automated, large scale advertising.
So it’s more accurate to say that unrestricted advertising is killing the Web.

2024-08-25 06:13:52

Web feeds could be so much more if we put some effort into them. This post explores some ideas of how to start.
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/08/25/feeds

2024-08-19 22:34:23

Preach, @npub1hyk…3p33
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/

2024-08-11 21:57:50

https://theshovel.com.au/2024/08/01/french-american-conservatives-statue-of-liberty-trans/

2024-08-11 21:57:50

https://theshovel.com.au/2024/08/01/french-american-conservatives-statue-of-liberty-trans/

2024-08-11 01:08:33

Just wondering: has a country ever denied accusations of ethnic cleansing and then later been found to be innocent?

2024-08-07 00:42:56

https://techpolicy.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/917/962/840/701/005/original/31630afea33a366a.jpg

2024-08-05 21:14:00

When Australia’s _security_ environment is degrading, we listen to the experts unquestioningly, spend buckets of money, change our behavior and send the culprits to prison.
What should we do when the _actual_ environment is degrading?
#auspol

2024-08-03 00:51:35

How do internet standards work? What role do the have in internet governance? I’m writing about these topics and more in a series of posts - feedback much appreciated!
https://www.mnot.net/blog/series/internet-standards/

2024-07-31 21:32:32

This is an increasingly used technique, policymakers would do well to familiarize themselves with it. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9614.html

2024-07-28 03:04:47

Actual use case for AI in mobile phones: detect when it is in a public place and refuse to use the speakerphone

2024-07-28 02:25:19

The "we're going to take our ball home because you dare constrain or question us in any way" vibes from the Silicon Valley VC / big tech crowd are getting tedious. To the degree that threat has any teeth, it just demonstrates how much concentrated power these folks have, and therefore the need to constrain and question it.

2024-07-23 17:09:32

Ooh, interesting.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/07/ftc-issues-orders-eight-companies-seeking-information-surveillance-pricing

2024-07-16 20:40:27

It's often assumed that standards work is inherently competitive. This post examines why Internet standards are often more collaborative than competitive, and outlines some implications of this approach. #standards #collaboration
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/07/16/collaborative_standards

2024-07-16 02:59:45

A boy (@npub1ftd…4cve) finds his people.
https://techpolicy.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/793/929/731/453/453/original/20e9745269eb465b.jpeg

2024-07-13 15:25:03

More Mencken.
https://techpolicy.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/779/873/478/264/381/original/dd13b8629955caa7.png

2024-07-01 00:30:14

Perfect, no notes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtVJ4JDM7eM

2024-06-25 07:16:58

@npub1hyk…3p33: "the UK Competition and Markets Authority's best-in-the-world Digital Markets Unit"
*smile*

2024-06-17 09:31:19

Hey look it’s a New York Times article about China with lots of racist comments. How surprising.

2024-06-11 19:58:43

If you use emoji in an e-mail subject, I assume you're a spammer.

2024-05-31 06:57:34

@npub1hyk…3p33 your innovation article immediately brought to mind Carliss Baldwin and Eric von Hippel's seminal work on the nature of innovation, and how open collaborative activity is really the engine of innovation in the modern economy. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/orsc.1100.0618

2024-05-30 21:22:26

A celebratory drink in the hotel bar.
https://techpolicy.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/532/137/072/644/335/original/867e6becf7dcdf6c.jpeg

2024-05-28 01:45:52

Yes, please.
https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/28/calling-time-on-dnssec/

2024-05-26 22:30:23

_Extremely_ well-written.
https://bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/

2024-05-26 00:32:23

- reply

@npub1hx9…lyhl
https://techpolicy.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/504/569/470/774/483/original/feb7b480f95f17c1.jpg

2024-05-24 08:19:59

It’s common for voluntary technical standards developing organisations (SDOs such as the IETF and W3C) to make decisions by consensus, rather than (for example) voting. This post explores why we use consensus, what it is, how it works in Internet standards and when its use can become problematic.
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/05/24/consensus

2024-05-18 00:28:27

The thing is, if you asked ANYONE outside Australia ‘who is Gina Rinehart’ last week, you would have got a blank stare. This portrait is now how she will be known and remembered.

2024-05-17 22:47:13

Also, great quote:
“Namatjira’s political leaders all look frozen, dull behind the eyes, whiter than white, and as if battling an internal war with their fakery and greed.”
https://www.theage.com.au/culture/art-and-design/by-resisting-exposure-gina-rinehart-painted-a-portrait-of-the-streisand-effect-20240517-p5jegg.html

2024-05-17 22:46:01

Well put.
“Rinehart seems to want to use her money for cultural influence. Namatjira uses his talent to the same end.
She wants to control her public image, and will deploy people financially dependent on her to that end. His art is a subversion of that control.
Rinehart’s attempts at censorship have only elevated Namatjira and brought his work to a new audience.”
https://www.theage.com.au/culture/art-and-design/by-resisting-exposure-gina-rinehart-painted-a-portrait-of-the-streisand-effect-20240517-p5jegg.html

2024-05-10 07:31:27

I say this with the deepest consideration -- fuck StackOverflow.

2024-05-07 21:00:32

And this is their _earnings call_.
"I think the central risk to Palantir, America and the world is a regressive way of thinking that is corrupting and corroding our institutions that calls itself progressive, but actually — and is called woke — but is actually a form of a thin pagan religion,"

2023-10-21 02:32:07

Fuck you and your neo-conservative, effective altruism cultist, technological utopian, simplistic, badly written manifesto.

2023-09-14 07:59:53

Can't seem to face up to the facts