Daily Tech News 26 November 2022

• Elon Musk just decided to bring the worst people on the internet back to Twitter. (The Verge)
  
  People who weren't banned from Twitter:
  
  
• Chinese genocide apologists
• Hitler-worshiping Hindu nationalists
• Iran's terrorist leadership
• Antifa goons actively planning assaults
• Pedophiles
• People illegally distributing puberty blockers to children (who were also pedophiles, strange coincidence there)
• People running mass-reporting schemes (who were - yes - also pedophiles)

People who were banned:


• The New York Post for news stories inconvenient to Democrats
• James Lindsay and the Babylon Bee for accurately identifying an adult male
• Nick Rekieta for being the victim of a mass-reporting scheme
• Me for suggesting a certain politician "needs to resign, or be thrown in a volcano, whatever works"


And it's only with those people being reinstated that the news media, which is all - mainstream and technology together - intensely pro-censorship, is getting itself worked up.



• Hoping that particular politician will soon be out of office, but it's Melbourne and they're all insane down there.

• The Blue and the Gray and also the Gold: Twitter's verification system is coming back next week, with three different checkmarks. (The Verge)
  
  Blue for humans, gold for companies, and gray for official government accounts.
  
  With an optional extra verification so that, for example, CNN can verify that yes, the idiot you are making fun of is one of theirs.
  
  
  
• Binance has announced a proof-of-reserves system that shows that funds a crypto exchange is allegedly holding for its customers is actually being held. (Binance)
  
  Binance appears to have more funds than its customers have deposited, which is good.
  
  
  
• Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, on the other hand, is looking increasingly fucked. (Yahoo)
  
  Allegedly the company has $10 billion in Bitcoin, even more than Binance, but it is being the opposite of transparent about where those funds might be.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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