It might be true that the NYT can't be trusted to regulate itself for the same reasons raised in the article - primarily that it has no incentive to do so, and lots of incentives not to. That said, I care a lot more about Facebook being properly regulated than I do about the NYT, simply because of the amount and scope of data that Facebook has.
Monero is designed to be mined more efficiently with CPUs, or rather, not give such a huge advantage to GPU or dedicated systems (I've read that GPU mining is only 2x the performance of a roughly equivalent CPU, instead of 1000+x as with bitcoin).
Is there any legitimate need for a phone mic to pick up sounds way outside the range of human speech and hearing? If this sort of thing should not be allowed, why not just add a software low-pass filter in the front of the audio input chain? What would the side effects of this be?
The official answer is "Links shouldn't ever create or delete things". Of course, in practice, lots of links do create and delete things, and that this type of preloading would be a really bad idea on those sites.