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On many issues, Rand Paul is a cut above his Republican peers. But tech policy does not appear to be one of them.

Jerry LambeMay 27th, 2021, 5:40 pm Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) A pair of online trade associations implored a federal judge to block a controversial Florida law that would penalize social media companies for “censoring” political candidates, calling the measure “patently unconstitutional” and a “frontal assault on the First Amendment.” The complaint, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, asserts that S.B. 7072 infringes on the rights to f...

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The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has granted permission for emergency use of anti-COVID-19 therapeutic application of the drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) developed by Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), a lab of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), in collaboration with Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (DRL), Hyderabad. In his virtual address at the 25th meeting of the Group of Ministers, the Health Minister said, “180 districts have showed no fresh...

2 May 2021 Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is slated to sign a bill banning social media companies from “deplatforming,” “shadow banning,” and “censoring” its users. SB 7072, passed by Florida’s House and Senate and was sent to the governor for signing on Friday. The New York Postreported: Social media companies would be unable to permanently kick people off their platforms under a tough new Florida law. The bill, passed by the GOP-dominated state Legislature Thursday and awaiting Gov. ...

Lawsuit: Reddit Allowed Man to Repeatedly Post Underage Revenge Porn 26 Apr 2021 Reddit, the self-proclaimed front page of the internet, is being sued by a woman for allegedly allowing an ex-boyfriend to repeatedly post revenge porn of her filmed when she was just 16 years old. The Verge reports that Reddit is being sued by a woman for allegedly allowing an ex-boyfriend to repeatedly post pornographic images of has a 16-year-old. The lawsuit applies measures instituted in 2018 under FOSTA-SEST...

Updated: April 21, 2021 11:47 IST In March, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg called for a Section 230 reform that would give publishers immunity only if they follow best practices for removing damagingmaterial from their platforms Share Article AAA Blumenthal noted that Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who is also on the committee, has also called for Section 230 to be reformed.   | Photo Credit: AFP In March, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg called for a Section 230 reform that wo...

  The federal government shoveling money to private road owners – is yet another instance of massive cronyism.  Private road owners toll We the Drivers.  And then We the Drivers are taxed even more – to shovel the private road owners crony “infrastructure” money. And government roads?  Interstate 95 goes north-to-south from Maine to Florida through fifteen states and the District of Columbia – more states than any other US highway.  But why should We the Drivers in the thirty-fiv...

Mon, Apr 5th 2021 10:38am — Mike Masnick Today was a weird one for Justice Thomas. Along with his bizarre and confusing dissent in the Oracle/Google case, he has done another one of his random walks down conspiracy theory nonsense lane on an unbriefed issue in which he gets to, once again, attack the 1st Amendment. Hes done this a few times now. Two years ago he did this in writing an unprovoked attack on the 1st Amendment regarding NY Times v. Sullivan. Last year, he did it with an unprovoke...

This article is part of the Free Speech Project, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways technology is influencing how we think about speech. On Monday morning, Justice Clarence Thomas all but endorsed a fringe legal theory that would sharply limit social media companies’ ability to moderate content on their own platforms, stripping them of their own First Amendment rights to dis...