The Daily 202: Biden faces bipartisan pressure on China’s Olympics Olivier Knox
Sainte-Mère-Église. There’s an homage to the 82nd Airborne. Congressional Republicans and Democrats agree on precious little these days, but there’s growing bipartisan fervor you could even call it impatience related to President Biden’s business-as-usual approach to the 2022 Winter Olympics in China.
Biden faces pressure from both sides of the aisle to use the Games, which open in early February 2022, as a launchpad for criticism of China over what his administration agrees is “genocide” targeting the mostly Muslim
Uyghur minority. Today, a pair of lawmakers Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) and Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.) are reportedly introducing legislation aimed at punishing corporations that sponsor the Games by barring them from federal contracts.
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The Transportation Security Administration issued a security directive Thursday to strengthen federal cybersecurity oversight of pipelines following the attack on the Colonial Pipeline. Meanwhile, the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee announced a series of hearings slated for the summer, and tech trade groups are suing Florida over a bill that aims to prohibit social media companies from banning politicians.
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IT’S OFFICIAL: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) formally issued a security directive Thursday to strengthen federal cybersecurity oversight of pipelines, weeks after a ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline led to fuel shortages in multiple states.
The directive, released two days after The Washington Post first reported on its existence, requires pipeline companies to report cybersecurity incidents within 12 hours of them occurring to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Both CISA and TSA
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Earlier this month, a Facebook software engineer from Egypt wrote an open note to his colleagues with a warning: “Facebook is losing trust among Arab users.”
Facebook had been a “tremendous help” for activists who used it to communicate during the Arab Spring of 2011, he said, but during the ongoing Palestinian–Israeli conflict, censorship either perceived or documented had made Arab and Muslim users skeptical of the platform. As proof, the engineer included a screenshot of Gaza Now, a verified news outlet with nearly 4 million followers, which, when liked on Facebook, prompted a “discouraging” pop-up message stating, “You may want to review غزة الآن - Gaza Now to see the types of content it usually shares.”