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Facebook finally takes steps to limit abusive live streamers

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by on May 15, 2019 at 8:15 am
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Almost two months after a horrific terrorist attack in New Zealand, Facebook‘s finally taking some concrete steps to stop the abuse of its live streaming feature. Today, the social network introduced a new ‘one strike’ policy to ban users who violate its community guidelines. Guy Rosen, Facebook’s VP of Integrity, said in a blog post that the platform will ban users for a period of time when they abuse its Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy:  From now on, anyone who violates our most serious policies will be restricted from using Live for set periods of time – for example 30 days…

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Skype didn’t deliver on P2P’s promise, but Estonia has

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by on May 15, 2019 at 8:13 am
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While Skype is now a Microsoft-owned behemoth, its early days were very different. Skype‘s heritage goes back to KaZaa, a P2P (peer-to-peer) file-sharing application that was one of the pillars of the early internet. And while the spirit of those times petered in Skype itself, the country of its origin, Estonia, has fulfilled the promise of P2P. First, some context. We met Tanel Erm – the Managing Director of Microsoft’s Estonia dev center – in Talinn, who gave us some insight into the early days of Skype and the company’s evolution from scrappy start-up to tech titan. The beginnings Let’s start with…

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