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There is a guiding light that must light up your working path: you can switch companies.

Imagine if Chrome could deplete your iPhone battery as fast as it does your MacBook battery. Imagine if you were one of the millions (zillions?) of people whose “incognito mode” browsing history was observed and stored by Google and deleted only after they lost a lawsuit. Imagine — and this takes a lot of imagination — if Google actually shipped a version of Chrome for iOS, only for the EU, that used its own battery-eating rendering engine instead of using the energy-efficient system version of WebKit.

Maybe Musk could be legally responsible in some jurisdiction for things he has said, or for things hosted on a platform he owns. But we should almost never encourage the idea of arresting people for things they say. Yes, there are limits: threats of violence and fraud are both types of generally illegal speech. Yet charging Musk for being a loud public idiot is a very bad idea.

I met a new supplier who presented to me a slide of their security partners. Speaking about CrowdStrike, he smiled slightly. Then he continued to talk.

Things that I can’t pay cashless in the South of Italy. Anno domini 2024.

Every time my partner proposes us a selfie, me and my daughter snort. She frames us, presses accidentally the shutdown button, and puts the phone in standby mode. We laugh. So, I take a picture of us that laughing. With my phone.

On one hand, platforms have faced increasing pressure for years now to crack down on speech globally and cooperate more with law enforcement agencies — including by breaking end-to-end encryption. Building platforms responsibly means reaching compromises with law enforcement agencies that allow for the investigation of serious crimes while protecting users’ privacy to the greatest extent possible. It’s a difficult, expensive dance, and when it’s working right neither the platforms or the law enforcement agencies are satisfied with the outcome.