Fri. 03/19 – A Rebel Alliance, Led By Facebook, And Born In A Clubhouse Room?

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🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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It’s app platform product news day! Instagram is working on a version of the service suitable for kids. Twitter wants you to watch YouTube in-stream. Telegram is basically adding all the Clubhouse features I’ve been dreaming of. Was an anti-Apple rebel alliance born last night in a Clubhouse room? Why China is banning Tesla in some cases. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: EditorX.com Molekule.com, code "techmeme" at checkout to save as much as $120! Links: Facebook Is Building An Instagram For Kids Under The Age Of 13 (BuzzFeed News) Twitter begins testing a way to watch YouTube videos from the home timeline on iOS (TechCrunch) Telegram takes on Clubhouse with Voice Chat 2.0 (XDA Developers) Zuckerberg: Facebook may actually be in a ‘stronger position’ after Apple’s iOS 14 privacy changes (CNBC) China to Restrict Tesla Use by Military and State Employees (WSJ) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It? (O'Reilly) Moore's Law for Everything (SamAltman.com) Empathetic Robots Are Killing Off the World’s Call-Center Industry (Bloomberg Businessweek) Loans that hijack your phone are coming to India (Rest of World) How a social app you’ve never heard of became a haven for Gen Z (Protocol) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, March 19th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.8	It's App Platform Product News Day.
0:11.2	Instagram is working on a version of its service suitable for kids.
0:15.1	Twitter wants you to watch YouTube In Stream.
0:18.0	Telegram is basically adding all the clubhouse features I've been dreaming of.
0:22.4	Was an anti-apple Rebel alliance born last night inside
0:26.3	a clubhouse room, why China is banning Tesla in some cases, and of course the weekend long
0:31.7	read suggestions. Here's what you
0:33.2	miss today in the world of tech. I didn't cover it this week but
0:39.7	Instagram recently introduced new policies to limit interactions between teenagers and adults,
0:46.0	including banning adults from DMing teens who don't follow them.
0:51.0	Which my first reaction was, they didn't already do that, but of course it's an
0:56.7	open secret right about how tons of kids lie about their age to be able to use Instagram.
1:02.1	Well following that news this is interesting.
1:04.7	What if Instagram moves to proactively
1:07.3	section off a portion of Instagram for younger users?
1:12.1	Buzzfeed News is reporting that Instagram is working on a version of the service that might be suitable for kids under the age of 13.
1:18.0	I'm excited to announce that going forward we have identified youth work as a priority for Instagram and have added it to
1:24.9	our H1 priority list. Vichal Shah, Instagram's vice president of product wrote in an employee
1:30.4	message board on Thursday. We will be building a new youth pillar
1:34.7	within the community product group to focus on two things, accelerating our
1:38.8	integrity and privacy work to ensure the safest possible experience for teens and building a version of
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