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March 16, 2021 10:44 PMLegal - By LOS ANGELES—About a year ago, as large portions of the global population went into some form of quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the videoconferencing app Zoom saw a massive surge in users. From traffic of about 10 million users per day in December of 2019, Zoom surged to about 200 million per day in March of 2020, as pandemic-related shutdowns took hold. But with the increase in traffic also came a new phenomenon known as “Zoombombing.” Last wee...

https://www.afinalwarning.com/504253.html (Natural News) A new lawsuit alleges that Twitter is aiding and abetting child sex traffickers and pedophiles by allowing them to buy and sell children, as well as spread child pornography, on its platform. Twitter, in its own defense, says the immunity protections outlined in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) do not require the social media service to act on behalf of innocent children who are being exploited. If it was Donald Trump...

REGIONAL—The fight over Big Tech and internet regulations has come to Des Moines with a bill that would ban state and local governments from doing business with social media companies that censor almost any kind of content. Senate File 571 passed last week’s funnel — a step in the legislative process that narrows the list of advancing bills — and was recommended for passage by a commerce subcommittee on March 10. Sen. Jeff Taylor (R-Sioux Center) co-sponsored the bill and sa...

In a recent article, the  New York Times writes that the law protecting the Masters of the Universe, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), appears likely to survive, with Congress focusing on making changes to details within the law. In a recent article titled “Tech’s Legal Shield Appears Likely to Survive as Congress Focuses on Details,” the  New York Times writes that while former President Donald Trump called for the repealing of laws that shield tech companies from le...

Wu’s gig – requires not Senate confirmation.  Because Biden, Inc – wishes not to discuss Wu’s radicalism. Because things like this might come up. “Researchers from the Vienna University of Economics and Business examined net neutrality policies in 32 of the 37 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCED), finding a negative correlation between regulations and internet expansion. “The study found that only two countries (Australia and New Zealand) h...

Tue, Mar 9th 2021 10:42am — Mike Masnick Weve been highlighting a wide variety of state bills from Republican-led legislatures that all attempt to attack Section 230. Nearly all of them are blatantly unconstitutional attacks on the 1st Amendment. Somewhat incredibly, the latest one from Tennessee might not actually be unconstitutional. That doesnt mean its good. In fact, its not just incredibly stupid, but demonstrates that the bills authors/sponsors are so fucking clueless that they have no ...

Tom Brenner/Reuters He also recently hired another antitrust activist to serve as a White House economic advisor. These moves signal Bidens aggressive stance against tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook. President Joe Biden is poised to nominate Lina Khan, a top antitrust lawyer, to the Federal Trade Commission, Politicos Playbook reported Tuesday. The decision is a sign of Bidens aggressive stance against tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon, who...

WSJ Editorial Board Suggests Revising Section 230 Protections for Big Tech The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial board came out this week to express support for curtailing broad legal protections for technology companies after one of the newspaper’s opinion articles was fact-checked by Facebook. “We’ve been leery of proposals in Congress to modify Section 230 protections that shield internet platforms from liability. But social-media giants are increasingly adding phony fact checks and ...

Republican state lawmakers are pushing for social media giants to face costly lawsuits for policing content on their websites, taking aim at a federal law that prevents internet companies from being sued for removing posts. GOP politicians in roughly two dozen states have introduced bills that would allow for civil lawsuits against platforms for what they call the “censorship” of posts. The federal liability shield has long been a target of former President Donald Trump and other...

March 04, 2021 11:00 PMLegal - By LOS ANGELES—The “Eliminating Abuse and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technology Act,” a United States Senate bill aimed at curtailing “sex trafficking” online — a bill that civil liberties experts say could damage online privacy, and could hit sex workers and the adult industry especially hard — died without a vote at the end of the previous two-year congressional session. But the bill, better known as EARN IT, is set to make a comeback in the c...