Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, July 25th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, another internal Facebook memo leaks. China tells Facebook not so fast.

Steam does battle with discord.

Why the iPhone can't compete in China.

And a Y2K bug for the new millennium. Here's what you miss today

in the world of tech.

Busfeed news. Buzzfeed News has gotten its hands on another internal Facebook memo and the

tendency would be to treat this as an inside baseball sort of story but it's really worth

thinking about rather as a peak inside the very real philosophical debates that

are probably going on right now inside of Facebook as Kara Swisher said on Twitter

Twitter, quote, you really need to read the whole very thoughtful memo here

rather than just the pulled hot quotes that make it look like an internal cat fight as Alex Stamos is making a much more

complex and nuanced point here that needs to be made end quote. So to set it up as

Kara says this is a memo from Facebook's former slash exiting chief security officer Alex Stamos from March shortly after it came out that he was leaving Facebook.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal was in full frenzy,

and many were speculating that Stemos was leaving because he did not agree

with how management was dealing with the controversy.

In the memo, Stemos assures his colleagues he did not quit the company in a fit of peak, but he does

acknowledge the elephant in the room, which was the scandal.

Quote, the world has changed from

underneath us in many ways he writes but then he goes on to give a brutally

honest assessment of the position Facebook was in as as it suddenly,

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