The Privatization of the Internet: Challenges and Changes

Elon Musk speaks to his soon to be employees for the first time at Twitter. Snap is testing a new subscription Snapchat. Microsoft debuts Defender for Individuals. Klarna is thinking about raising a massively down round. And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

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Links:

• Elon Musk Tells Staff Twitter Should Allow ‘Pretty Outrageous’ Tweets (Bloomberg)
• SpaceX Said to Fire Employees Involved in Letter Rebuking Elon Musk (NYTimes)
• Snap is working on a paid subscription called Snapchat Plus (The Verge)
• Microsoft launches Defender for Individuals for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers (ZDNet)
• Fintech Giant Klarna Slashes Fundraising Ambition (WSJ)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• What Should You Do With Your Options During a Downturn? (Every)
• ‘Wallets and eyeballs’: how eBay turned the internet into a marketplace (The Guardian)
• A Billion-Dollar Crypto Gaming Startup Promised Riches and Delivered Disaster (Bloomberg)
• Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data (Wired)
• What Is Quantum Entanglement? Skip the heady and abstract physics lectures. Let’s talk about socks (IEEE Spectrum)
• The Best Sci Fi Books for Beginners (FiveBooks.com)

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