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The organizer of a fundraising effort to build an "organizing hub" to assist supporters of a northern B.C. rail blockade is questioning a decision by GoFundMe to cancel the campaign before it even hit the internet.

Reform Redux: Senate Could Bring Major Voting, Anti-Corruption Bill To Floor Reform Redux: Senate Could Bring Major Voting, Anti-Corruption Bill To Floor Comments Off on Reform Redux: Senate Could Bring Major Voting, Anti-Corruption Bill To Floor House Democrats want to make sweeping changes to campaign finance and election law, and that begins with H.R. 1, the “For The People Act.” It passed in the House but languished in the GOP-controlled Senate in 2019 — this is round two. Its return ...

Commentary: Will Duffield - Repealing Section 230 would limit Americans speech Will Duffield FacebookTwitterEmail Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act prevents digital intermediaries from being treated as the “publisher or speaker” of their users’ speech and blocks litigation over platforms’ decisions to remove speech they deem violent, obscene or otherwise objectionable. Platforms are under no obligation to remove speech, with some exceptions, but cannot be required to carry s...

Fri, Jan 29th 2021 9:33am — Mike Masnick Steven Hill, the former policy director with the Center for Humane Technologies -- the non-profit that everyone seems to look to as some sort of knowledgeable source on "anti-Big Tech" talking points -- has come out with one of the most ridiculous op-eds regarding Section 230. And I say that as someone who seems to wade through a dozen or so terrible Section 230 op-eds every day. The title alone, should already make you nervous, but honestly this piece...