Dark Patterns in Amazon Prime? - DTNS 4545
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit against Amazon, alleging the company violated rules by using so-called dark patterns. Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson announced the company will restructure its studios, citing an effort to “empower our creative teams.” And is the metaverse taking off outside of North America? RestofWorld reports that Indonesia’s tvOne broadcast channels have been using a digital reporter called Nadira.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.
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| 0:00.0 | This 10th year of Daily Tech News Show is made possible by you. |
| 0:03.9 | The listener, thanks to every single one of you, including Callie Cook, Scott Hepburn, |
| 0:08.0 | Bjorn Andre, and our new patrons helping news to get to our patron goal, Michelle, Scott, |
| 0:13.2 | Wauge, and Mark. |
| 0:15.0 | On this episode of Daily Tech News Show, the Metaverse may have started in Indonesia. |
| 0:18.4 | They got real life metahumans down there. |
| 0:20.6 | Plus, EA makes moves away from being a video game company. |
| 0:28.4 | This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, June 21st, 2023, in Los Angeles, I'm Tom |
| 0:33.3 | Merid. |
| 0:34.3 | And from Studio 7 Lamps, I'm Sarah Lane. |
| 0:37.0 | From Salt Lake City, I'm Scott Johnson. |
| 0:38.4 | And I'm going to show you some pretty serious magic. |
| 0:41.3 | Let's get right into the quick hits. |
| 0:46.0 | As part of the continuing protests around Reddit's API pricing changes, some subreddit |
| 0:50.9 | moderators have switched their communities to NSFW, aka Not Say For Work. |
| 0:58.0 | This means that Reddit doesn't display ads on these communities. |
| 1:01.4 | Now, as a result, Reddit started to spend in some of these mods, with spokesperson Tim |
| 1:06.3 | Rothschmidt saying, moderators incorrectly marking a community as NSFW is a violation |
| 1:12.0 | of both our content policy and moderator code of conduct. |
| 1:16.4 | Mods for the mildly interesting subreddit report that their team has been subsequently |
| 1:21.0 | reinstate. |
| 1:22.0 | Maybe they posted some Not Say For Work content. |
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