For almost 25 years, the preservation of Internet Freedom has been the hallmark of a thriving Digital Economy in the United States. The success has largely been attributed to a light touch Regulatory Framework and to section 230 of the communications decisions the act, the 26 words they created the internet. There is little dispute that section 230 played an early role ofthe Critical Development Online Platforms. It provides protection from liability to remove and moderate content that take what their users consider to be obscene, filthy,cinius, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable. This shield has been pivotal in protecting Online Platforms from but it has also given these internet platforms the ability to control, cycle, and even censor content in whatever manner. The time has come for that free pass to end. 230, 24 years of section much has changed. The internet is no longer in emerging technology. Companies before us today are no longer scrappy startups operat
Most republicans say theyre not fair to conservative speech, for that matter, conservative stories. Theyre more inclined to go after more liberal content. It went way beyond that to talk about the Business Model themself. Whether they need the protections of this 230, section 230 here you know a good deal about. This is part of the 1996 Telecommunications Act that would shield them from liability for third party speech, speech that seems to be offensive or just wrong but theyre calling into question whether that protection should be allowed to them or they should be treated like regular publishers of content. Theyre obviously deadset against that. To varying degrees their business depends on it. It is a reminder here that they are being called in. Democrats were questioning the timing of all of this. You know, right now, just days ahead of the election. But the fact of the matter is, theyre not done. Theyre in the lunch break. Gillian turner where this all stands, how long this could g
We have a pretty good fog bank out there. Yesterday was not bad, 84 officially in san jose. That is not bad they can get a lot hotter. Santa clara, 85 and East San Jose was 85. Today fog moving up and down the coast. It will burn off sooner with the northwest wind. It is showing signs of winning out over the next few days with a more significant cooling trend. Tomorrow, almost all of the temperatures will go down. 50s and 60s currently they have not moved much. Mid 50s on the peninsula and foster city at 58. Palo alto at 55. The fog will make 60s for the coast and inland 80s to near 90. Then it looks like the inland temperatures are on their way down on thursday. Most of the commute is normal but we have an abnormality when it comes to getting off of the Richmond Bridge into the east bay. There is a problem on the freeway this would be eastbound 580 heading away from the Richmond Bridge toward berkeley. It is a problem with an investigation of a fatality. A pedestrian was on the freewa
Even through the misty fog on this wednesday morning. Welcome to the 9 everybody. Just taking a look, i mentioned baseball, i was looking ahead to football. Football season is about three weeks away. I know. I think it is like august 8, that weekend, when the first preseason game is for the 49ers. I feel like it is still summer. Havent you been craving it . Mike loves the fall. The season changes, you start to get football up and going. Oktoberfest. Cool your jets. I like july, too. Yesterday and the day before was amazon prime day. That is not over. Apparently shoppers are jumping ship. The internet searches for canceling amazon prime were 18 times higher on monday than normal. That suggests subscribers are signing up for prime just to get the twoday deals and then they were logoff or just cancel. In the meantime, amazon said it sold 70 175 million items during this years event, more than it sales for the past black friday and cyber monday can bind. A lot of people out there are buyin
The humidity it is continually 78 degrees. Watch the air flow. See the air flow is coming, it will show up this a second. Its coming out of the gulf, up from the south, southwest. Thats that humid air and 94 is the forecasted high today. Is that a problem . No. Low clouds are here. Temperatures, again, they are near am, slightly below or above santa rosa. Santa rosa has been a leader oh the pack on the high side. Fog will give way to shall be on the coast. 60ss 70s there. The system this the Pacific Northwest will it does tomorrow, usher in a cooling trend. Southeast, san jose. Thats cooler direction. For us, temperatures stuck here for another day. A drop tomorrow, 60s, 70s, 80s to upper 80s and low 90s. Seminary is better. They opened up that ramp, they took that car away. Thats good. We are talking about 580 eastbound. You can use the ramp. We are speaking of 580, tracy areas meeting with 205. Slow traffic coming out to the altamonte pass, typical. You are driving in to oakland. It