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By NAOMI NIX | Bloomberg | Published: May 6, 2021 The decision by a Facebook panel to extend for up to six months former President Donald Trumps banishment from the social media platform has renewed calls to revoke the legal shield that enabled Facebook to grow into one of the richest and most powerful companies in the world. Minutes after the announcement, it was clear that the Facebook ruling hadnt pleased liberals or conservatives. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tweeted that Republic...

Section 230, which turned 25 years old this month, has played a central role in shaping the internet. Over the past year, Congress has introduced several proposals to change the law — some of them drastic — but the bills have often focused on a handful of very large tech companies like Facebook and Google. In reality, Section 230 has created a lot of the web as we know it. On Monday, March 1st, we’re holding an event on Section 230 and the future of tech regulation. After a keynote from S...

A vast web of vengeance: When online lies destroy lives 19 minutes to read By: Kashmir Hill Outrageous lies destroyed Guy Babcocks online reputation. When he went hunting for their source, what he discovered was worse than he could have imagined. Guy Babcock vividly remembers the chilly Saturday evening when he discovered the stain on his family. It was September 2018. He, his wife and their young son had just returned to their home in Beckley, an English village outside of Ox...

Tue, Feb 2nd 2021 12:06pm — Mike Masnick If you havent read it yet, I highly recommend Kash Hills incredible NY Times story about a clearly disturbed individual, who admits to "suffering from severe mental health illnesses," who filled the web with horribly defamatory information about a random guy and everyone in his family. It turned out that the reason appeared to be that nearly 30 years ago, the guys father had fired the woman from her job in a real estate office. The story is all too fam...

News Highlights: Hacker pleads guilty to blackmailing Adafruit, Bleacher Report, and other sites for bitcoin. A Cypriot man pleaded guilty to hacking and

Get Permission A Cypriot hacker has pleaded guilty to a pair of federal charges after admitting that he hacked the websites of several U.S. organizations, stole data and then threatened to disclose it unless a ransom was paid, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Joshua Polloso Epifaniou, 21, of Nicosia, Cyprus, pleaded guilty this week to computer fraud conspiracy and obtaining information from a protected computer. He faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine when hes sentenc...

Hacker pleads guilty to blackmailing Adafruit, Bleacher Report, and other sites for bitcoin He also operated a ‘reputation management’ scam Share this story A Cypriot man pleaded guilty to hacking and blackmailing several US companies. Joshua Epifaniou admitted to computer fraud and paid $600,000 in restitution to his victims. He was extradited from Cyprus and will be sentenced on March 3rd. Epifaniou operated what he described as a “hacking, extortion, blackmailing, [and] bluffing” sch...

>> bentley. >> yeah. as you can see, he was the one who wanted the car and the name and the show. >> chief tex h he banished james from the reservation. but there was something neither tex nor sarah knew just then. not just that the spokane cops were investigating sarahs wayward husband. out on the north dakota prairie, another lawman had been ki around for more than a year. homeland security agent derrick truedell had heard from a colleague about the missing casey clark and the ripoff report an...

I got a hit on whats called a ripoff report which id never heard of. and i clicked on it and a flyer came up that said beware of these people. >> what do you know, the ken and barbie of the oil field. >> it said theyre known frauds. theyre running fraud scams in north dakota. dont do any business. >> grievances were rife around that oil project in which doug and james and others were involved. the ripoff report was put out as a flyer in stores and businesses all around the oil patch. it was pay ...