US States Oppose A Children s Version Of Instagram
05/10/21 AT 1:29 PM
Officials representing most US states on Monday called on Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg to nix plans to launch a version of Instagram for children.
In a letter to the founder and chief of the leading social network, 44 state attorneys general argued that such a service would be harmful for myriad reasons.
Concerns expressed by attorneys general included cyberbullying, predatory adults, mental well-being, and Facebook s missteps on data protection and privacy, according to a statement released by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Not only is social media an influential tool that can be detrimental to children who are not of appropriate age, but this plan could place children directly in the paths of predators, James said.
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Broadband companies paid for millions of fraudulent comments supporting the Trump-era repeal of net neutrality rules, according to an investigation in New York.
Nearly 8.5 million fake comments to the Federal Communications Commission and half a million letters to Congress were paid for by the nation s largest broadband companies, said a report released on Thursday by the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Of the more than 22 million comments received by the FCC during its 2017 rule-making, the report said nearly 18 million were fake, including comments both in favor of and against net neutrality.
The report said the companies banded together through an organization called Broadband for America, a nonprofit group funded by the broadband industry. Together, they hired companies known as lead generators to generate comments favorable to their cause.
During the ferocious 2017 battle over the repeal of net neutrality protections, the Federal Communications Commission received a whopping 22 million public comments. But that doesn’t mean 22 million Americans had strong feelings about the issue, according to a new report from New York Attorney General Letitia James.
James’ investigation found that the comments were riddled with fraud. One New Yorker who commented in favor of the appeal turned out to be dead. A single 19-year-old college student apparently filed 7.7 million comments arguing against the repeal. And a broadband industry group spent millions to submit more than 8.5 million fake comments supporting the decision.
New York Attorney General Attorney Letitia James argued that a U.S. bankruptcy judge should file Chapter 11 of the National Rifle Association to “prevent failure from becoming a refuge for criminals.”
The National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy file was part of a clever attempt to escape a legal oversight of the NRA’s native New York state and should be canceled, a state attorney said at the end of an argument in a trial on Monday.
What was presented in the NRA’s Chapter 11 in January is “a child of bankruptcy filed in bad faith,” and the court should rule out “failure to prevent it from becoming a refuge for criminals,” Gerrit Pronske, New York Attorney General Letitia James. , he argued.