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• cat << EOF > Saturday 16th January, 2021 (Issue #9)

  This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-01-16)

  In this week’s edition:

  VanillaJS, JS for visual arts, cool internet history, IoT, IoM, AV1 codec, APIs, cool CES gadgets, smartglasses, Lucasfilm, Trumpban, Web design trends, ESM, web components, Docker, OSS, M1 Linux...

  Issue details:

  • Title: Saturday 16th January, 2021
  • Issue: 9
  • Page: issue webpage

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Today’s links:

• A Few More Thoughts On The Total Deplatforming Of Parler & Infrastructure Content Moderation - I’ve liked lots lots of the Techdirt pieces about the technology side of the Trump ban, and though this piece has quite a bit of factually correct tech details, I disagree with the conclusion, I think it misses the point, which isn’t imo even todo with content moderation, the reality is that there are only a hand full of hosting companies and they can be pressured easily to shut companies down, be it by government or general public sentiment, it’s way too easy to turn a company “toxic”, we are hearing about Parler because it’s high profile, but it could just as easily happen to a no name small company, and would we even know it had happened? It’s very difficult to complain when you’ve been deplatformed, it’s like cutting off someone’s water supply, or oxygen, it’s a very terminal movewww.techdirt.com #

• Apple considering premium podcast service to compete with Amazon, Spotify - Likely to be quite controversial, has the potential to change the podcasting landscape quite a bitappleinsider.com #

• Signal is down as rush of new users swamps secure messaging servicewww.slashgear.com #

• MGM Is For Sale (Again) - If you are at all into films, this is a must read piece, some really good analysis, I didn’t know there was so much movement happening in the Studios business at the minute, MGM has a big library including the Bond franchise, a streaming property EPIX, production and distribution capabilities for both movies and televisionthebulwark.com #