TK News by Matt Taibbi
Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. The latest target: live content
On January 6th, Jon Farina, photographer and videographer for Jordan Chariton’s
Status Coup outlet, captured horrifying images. At the Capitol, a pro-Trump mob tried to burst into the building, and a police officer who attempted to intercede was caught in a door. He cried out in pain, but the crowd was indifferent, chanting, “Heave, ho!” as they tried to break in. Farina, in the middle of the physical mayhem as photojournalists often are, caught the scene up close while 30,000 people watched the live feed.
Jack Nicas, Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel, The New York Times
Published: 14 Jan 2021 10:44 AM BdST
Updated: 14 Jan 2021 10:44 AM BdST The messaging app Signal, which allows messages to be sent with end-to-end encryption, on a phone in Shanghai, China, Feb 26, 2019. The New York Times
Neeraj Agrawal, a spokesman for a cryptocurrency think tank, has typically used the encrypted messaging app Signal to chat with privacy-minded colleagues and peers. So he was surprised on Monday when the app alerted him to two new users: Mom and Dad. );
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“Signal still had a subversive shine to it,” said Agrawal, 32. “Now my parents are on it.”