who s going to decide that? now along comes stem. they had stem before. you can go on tik tok for ages and do a stem tutorial. you can look into how to do math. it s not that it has no value, but now they re trying to fight back against the regulators and creating a separate feed called stem. my son says it s like taking purified water and pouring it into a polluted stream. i think that s where we are. john: that s a good way to put it. he s an intelligent young man. whether encouraging aspiring scientists to work out experiments in comment sections or helping a new programmer learn to code, the stem feed provides a space for co-learning and enrichment to bring high quality stem content to the tik tok community. as you mentioned, though, it could be a place rife for misinformation. there are questions as to whether or not the news feed that s on tik tok is curated by
they were to make such a ruling, it would have huge ripple effects on the internet. it s more likely this gets punted to congress. it seems like a legislative action. how could either case change the way we use the internet if they were to surprise us with their rulings? let s say you took that immunity away from tech platforms and they were held accountable for everything. it would shut down the internet. no more comment sections. you couldn t post anything about authenticating your identity. think about any commenting platform, yelp, trip advisers, all those businesses would be under water. all right. thanks to both of you. appreciate it. in our world lead, deadly crashing e lrupted in the west bank. israel says it was focused on terrorists planning attacks in the immediate future. it the raid happened in the
to european business people in china working for multinationals about their, about their policy in terms of in high tech areas is extremely politically sensitive. so i think that now there is no clear boundary between what is and what isn t 0k. and joseph menn from the washington post, i mean, have you noticed any change since you ve been monitoring social media? are the chinese censors winning? so on social media, i mean, there is an enormous range of tools that are used. so there there is word blocking. there s obviously the great firewall, but there s a lot of pressure on the companies themselves to police their networks. and then there s what s called the 50 cent army, where government employees essentially or contractors, you know, fill up comments with, you know, comment sections with ha happy stuff. ppy, but the creativity of the protesters and dissidents and critics is remarkable. so they use puns, as we heard earlier, they use illusions.
and joseph menn from the washington post, i mean, have you noticed any change since you ve been monitoring social media? are the chinese censors winning? so on social media, i mean, there is an enormous range of tools that are used. so there is word blocking. there s obviously the great firewall, but there s a lot of pressure on the companies themselves to police their networks. and then there s what s called the 50 cent army, where government employees essentially or contractors, you know, fill up comments with, you know, comment sections with ha happy stuff. ppy, but the creativity of the protesters and dissidents and critics is remarkable. so they use puns, as we heard earlier, they use illusions. earlier, they use allusions. and it s very hard to keep up. so i think it s really kind of a numbers game. and if enough people are trying to get out the word about something, i think they can. and howard, i mean, you were talking earlier about how china is going more
and then there s what s called the 50 cent army, where government employees essentially, or contractors, you know, fill up comments with, you know, comment sections with happy, happy stuff. but the creativity of the protesters and dissidents and critics is remarkable. so they use puns, as we heard earlier, they use illusions. and it s very hard to keep up. so i think it s really kind of a numbers game. and if enough people are trying to get out the word about something, i think they can. and, howard, i mean, you were talking earlier about how china is going more towards north korea when it comes to press freedom. so just what is it like as a journalist in china, the people that you speak to for the bbc s china service, you know, can you just turn up at, i don t know, the scene of a crime or a court case or whatever it might be and start reporting? if you don t mind being arrested eventually, like, yes, but in reality, it s becoming next to impossible.