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| 11.09.2024 | Utah law restricting youth social media use blocked by judge | A federal judge has blocked Utah from enforcing a new law aimed at protecting the mental health of young people by requiring social media platforms to verify users' ages and impose restrictions on minors' accounts.
Chief U.S. District Judge... |
| 20.08.2024 | Court Ruling on California's Online Safety Law: A Double-Edged Sword | In a landscape where the internet is both a playground and a minefield for children, California's attempt to shield its young users has hit a legal snag. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued a ruling that both narrows and p... |
| 17.08.2024 | Court blocks key part of California law on children's online safety | :A U.S. appeals court on Friday left intact a key part of an injunction blocking a California law meant to shield children from online content that could harm them mentally or physically.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francis... |
| 17.08.2024 | Injunction against California law on children's online safety narrowed | A federal appeals court on Friday narrowed an injunction that blocked California from enforcing a law meant to protect children when they use the internet, while agreeing that part of the law would likely be found unconstitutional.
The 9th ... |
| 16.08.2024 | Health | Social media bans could deny teenagers mental health help | For children of color and LGBTQ+ young people — and others who may not see themselves represented broadly in society — social media can reduce isolation, according to Charmaraman’s research, which was published in the Handbook of Adolescent... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Messy Reality Behind Trying To Protect The Internet From Terrible Laws | The recent Supreme Court case, Moody v. NetChoice & CCIA, confronted a pivotal question: Do websites have the First Amendment right to curate content they present to their global audiences? While the opinion has been dissected by many, ... |
| 26.06.2024 | Empire State of Minding the Minors: New York Laws Aim To Ensure Children's Privacy and Online Safety | On June 7, 2024, the New York Legislature passed two bills to protect children online. The Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act, S7694A, prohibits social media platforms from providing defined "addictive feeds" to... |
| 13.06.2024 | Meta Won’t Fight Online Kid Safety Regulations Because It Sees Them As A Competitive Moat | Forget everything you think you know about Mark Zuckerberg and his army of lobbyists blocking any attempt to regulate social media. The truth is more nuanced (but perhaps less complicated). Meta is actually happy with internet regulations: ... |
| 10.06.2024 | Законодатели Нью-Йорка приняли положения о защите несовершеннолетних в интернете | Законодательное собрание штата Нью-Йорка одобрило два законопроекта, которые запрещают социальным сетям использовать «вызывающие привыкание» алгоритмы рекомендаций для несовершеннолетних пользователей и передавать персональные данные детей.... |
| 10.06.2024 | New York Legislature Bans Addictive Social Media Feeds for Minors Without Parental Consent | By Quincy Jon
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| 08.06.2024 | Mississippi Faces New Lawsuit From Tech Group Over Age Verification on Websites | By Inno Flores
Published Jun 8, 2024 12:53AM EDT
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A tech industry group has filed a lawsuit against Mississippi over a new law mandating ... |
| 10.05.2024 | Congressional Committee Threatens To Investigate Any Company Helping TikTok Defend Its Rights | “Do you now, or have you ever, worked with TikTok to help defend its rights?”
That McCarthyism-esque question is apparently being asked by members of Congress to organizations that have been working with TikTok to defend its Constitutional ... |
| 07.05.2024 | Raging Ignorantly At The Internet Fixes Nothing | Jann Wenner, the creator of Rolling Stone magazine, was certainly an early supporter of free speech. But he seems to have reached grumpy old man status, that allows him to whine about free speech online, mostly by not knowing shit about any... |
| 19.03.2024 | SCOTUS airs grievances about the media during oral arguments on social media censorship case | Politics SCOTUS airs grievances about the media during oral arguments on social media censorship case
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| 30.01.2024 | CEOs from Meta, TikTok, Snap, X and Discord head to Congress for kids’ online safety hearing | CEOs from some of the biggest social platforms will appear before Congress on Wednesday to defend their companies against mounting criticism that they have done too little to protect kids and teens online.
The hearing, set to begin at 10AM ... |
| 27.12.2023 | Utah Finally Sued Over Its Obviously Unconstitutional Social Media ‘But Think Of The Kids!’ Law | Last year, we wrote a bunch about how the Utah legislature was rushing through a bill to destroy the internet by claiming they were doing it “for the children.” There were all sorts of obvious problems with the bill, and even though it was ... |
| 05.10.2023 | KOSA Won’t Make The Internet Safer For Kids. So What Will? | I’ve been asked a few times now what to do about online safety if the Kids Online Safety Act is no good. I will take it as a given that not enough is being done to make the Internet safe, especially for children. I think there is enough evi... |
| 04.10.2023 | What’s at stake in the Supreme Court’s landmark social media case | The Supreme Court is poised to decide whether a pair of state laws are allowed to reshape the ability of social media companies to control what does — and doesn’t — appear on their platforms.
Last week, the Supreme Court decided that it wou... |
| 09.09.2023 | Соцсеть X подала в суд на Калифорнию из-за закона о раскрытии данных борьбы с дезинформацией | Социальная сеть X (ранее Twitter) подала в суд на штат Калифорния из-за закона, который требует от компаний раскрывать подробную информацию о своей практике модерации контента.
Положение, известное как AB 587, обязывает фирмы, занимающиеся ... |
| 30.08.2023 | State Governments Can’t Resist The Siren Song Of Censorship | The states have gone rogue. In the last year alone, at least nine states enacted internet censorship laws. And more legislators are promising to take up the cause. But these laws are directly at odds with the First Amendment’s command that ... |
| 16.08.2023 | Arkansas judge considers blocking social media law before Sept. 1 | A federal judge said Tuesday he will decide whether to temporarily block Arkansas' new social media age verification law by the end of the month.
Driving the news: NetChoice, a group representing social media companies, is challenging the m... |
| 16.08.2023 | California’s SB 680: Social Media ‘Addiction’ Bill Heading For A First Amendment Collision | Similar to the “Age Appropriate Design Code” (AADC) legislation that became law last year, California’s latest effort to regulate online speech comes in the form of SB 680, a bill by Sen. Nancy Skinner targeting the designs, algorithms, and... |
| 07.07.2023 | NetChoice Challenges Yet Another Ridiculously Bad State Internet Law | NetChoice has been quite busy the last few years suing to stop a wide variety of terrible state laws designed to mess up parts of the internet. It took on Florida’s social media content moderation law and won (twice). It took on Texas’ soci... |
| 30.06.2023 | Tech Group Challenges Arkansas Law Requiring Parental Permissions for Minors on Social Media | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 30 June 2023, 09:06 am
NetChoice, a trade group representing tech companies like Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter, has filed a lawsuit against the state of Arkansas over a recently passed law that mandates parental c... |
| 24.04.2023 | Avoiding Mandatory Transparency’s Pitfalls in Online Safety Legislation | On April 19, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced a new bill, the STOP CSAM Act (an acronym for “child sex abuse material”). It’s the newest in a line of recent bills that attempt to promote greater safety online, in part by demanding more ... |
| 28.09.2022 | A subreddit post is trolling Texas' controversial content-moderation law by requiring every comment to include Gov. 'Greg Abbott is a little piss baby' | Texas' H.B. 20 law prohibits social-media platforms from censoring users based on their viewpoints.
A subreddit post is trolling the law by only allowing "Greg Abbott is a little piss baby" comments.
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| 27.09.2022 | A subreddit post is trolling Texas' controversial content-moderation law by requiring every comment to include Gov. 'Greg Abbott is a little piss baby' | Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas Marco Bello/Reuters
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Texas' H.B. 20 law prohibits social-media platforms from censoring users based on their viewpoints.
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| 13.09.2022 | Behind Washington’s Antitrust Gambit | Summer is nearly over, but, for many politicians, destructive tech regulations are always in season. Congress is back from recess, and the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) is once more under consideration. |
| 12.08.2022 | California Legislature Kills Ridiculous ‘Social Media Addiction’ Bill, But Allows Other Bad Bills To Move Forward | On Thursday, the California Senate’s appropriations committee was set to review a collection of anti-internet bills to see which ones should move forward. It decided to drop one that was particularly terrible: AB 2408, which would allow bas... |
| 28.07.2022 | After Dobbs, Democrats and Republicans Switch Places on Speech Policy | The Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade is likely to have a sweeping effect on abortion and privacy, but it will also set the stage for a battle over what people can and can’t say online. Democrats and Republicans are already p... |
| 27.07.2022 | Anti-Censorship Legislation: A Flawed Attempt to Address a Legitimate Problem | Editor’s Note: The authors have received support from Meta for their work examining the intersection of technology and national security.
Various malign actors have used social media to spread terrorist content, engage in hate speech and ha... |
| 23.05.2022 | A look into Texas’ controversial anti-censorship law HB 20 | Freedom of speech has always felt like something of a major question mark when it comes to the internet. While there are many laws about it, there are plenty of gray areas as well, especially given how much nuance there is in U.S. speech la... |
| 16.05.2022 | Tech Groups Push Back Against Texas’ Controversial New Social Media Law | Two groups representing social media giants are trying to block a Texas law protecting users’ political social media content.
NetChoice—whose members include the Culver City-based video-sharing app TikTok—and the Computer & Communicatio... |
| 11.05.2022 | Democrats finally get their FTC majority back | It took eight months of hearings, nominations, health-related delays, and a tie-breaking vote from the vice president, but the Senate has confirmed Alvaro Bedoya as the Federal Trade Commission’s fifth commissioner. More importantly — and a... |
| 02.12.2021 | Judge blocks Texas bill aimed at preventing social media companies from deplatforming people based on their ‘viewpoint’ | Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Alex Trautwig/MLB Photos via Getty Images
A bill signed in Texas aimed to stop social media firms censoring people based on their “viewpoint.”
A federal judge blocked the bill on Wednesday, saying it violated the Fir... |
| 02.12.2021 | Judge blocks Texas bill aimed at preventing social media companies from deplatforming people based on their 'viewpoint' | A bill signed in Texas aimed to stop social media firms censoring people based on their "viewpoint."
A federal judge blocked the bill on Wednesday, saying it violated the First Amendment.
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| 23.09.2021 | Texas sued by group of Big Tech giants over censorship bill they say would protect 'pro-Nazi speech' and 'terrorist propaganda' | Groups representing Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter are suing Texas over a "social media censorship" law.
Proponents say the law prevents users from being booted of platforms for their political views.
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| 23.09.2021 | Big Tech: Facebook, Twitter, and MORE Sue Texas Law for Censorship As It Does More Harm than Good | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 23 September 2021, 11:09 pm
Big Tech companies are pursuing a lawsuit against the state of Texas, something which would go against the policies of the state that focuses on social media censorship. The latest law ... |
| 10.09.2021 | Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill stopping tech companies deplatforming people based on users’ political ‘viewpoint’ | Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaking at speaks at the annual National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in May 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo A new Texas bill bans social-media sites from removing users based on that person’s “viewpoint... |
| 10.09.2021 | Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill stopping tech companies deplatforming people based on users' political 'viewpoint' | A new Texas bill bans social-media sites from removing users based on that person's "viewpoint."
Gov. Greg Abbott said social-media companies try to silence "conservative ideas and values."
A similar bill in Florida was ... |
| 08.07.2021 | Trump Lawsuit Targets Tech Giants Over Frozen Accounts | Former US President Donald Trump has announced his intention to launch a class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google over claims they censor conservative voices.
The announcement was made by Trump at a press conference at his ... |
| 08.07.2021 | Donald Trump Sues Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, CEOs In Latest Social Media Battle | Contributing Author: Bryan Sullivan |
| 01.07.2021 | Judge blocks Florida’s social media censorship law after Big Tech sues | More On: censorship
Apple, Google block Alexei Navalny’s app in act of ‘political censorship’ Amazon’s senseless bid to bury my exposé of Black Lives Matter Twitter Biden-bias in block of Hunter articles was not illegal: FEC commish FEC jus... |
| 01.07.2021 | Judge blocks Florida’s social media censorship law after Big Tech sues | More On: censorship
Letters to the Editor — April 21, 2022 China’s attempt to censor Megan Thee Stallion’s booty fails ‘Censorship is free speech’ is the establishment’s Orwellian line on Elon Musk’s Twitter crusade Dear potential Twitter C... |
| 01.07.2021 | Florida’s social media free speech law has been blocked for likely violating free speech laws | A controversial Florida law that would have prohibited certain social media platforms from banning political candidates or “journalistic enterprises” from their services has been blocked, hours before it was set to take effect. The law, whi... |
| 02.06.2021 | Groups representing Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Google are suing Florida over Gov. DeSantis' new bill banning online 'deplatforming' | Two tech industry groups filed a lawsuit against a new bill signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The lawsuit calls the bill - which bans "deplatforming" - a "smorgasbord of constitutional violations."
The groups that fil... |
| 02.06.2021 | Groups representing Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Google are suing Florida over Gov. DeSantis’ new bill banning online ‘deplatforming’ | Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Two tech industry groups filed a lawsuit against a new bill signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The lawsuit calls the bill – which bans “deplatforming” ... |
| 28.05.2021 | Big Tech sues Florida over social media law, slams ‘state-run internet’ | More On: first amendment
Elon Musk likens himself to Eminem in legal battle with SEC Alabama recalls man’s personalized ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ license plate Harlem City Council member blocks critics on Twitter over vigil for ‘all lives lost’ AC... |
| 28.05.2021 | Big Tech sues Florida over social media law, slams ‘state-run internet’ | More On: first amendment
Fencing installed around the Capitol ahead of anticipated Sept. 18 protest FEC just turned Twitter into all-powerful propaganda machine accountable to no one Clash for cash: Professional agitators film confrontation... |
| 27.05.2021 | First Legal Challenge To Florida's Unconstitutional Social Media Moderation Law Has Been Filed | On Monday we noted that Florida Man Governor Ron DeSantis had signed into law the new blatantly unconstitutional social media content moderation bill, complete with its extra corrupt Mickey Mouse exemption for (Disney) companies who own (Di... |
| 27.05.2021 | First Legal Challenge To Florida's Unconstitutional Social Media Moderation Law Has Been Filed | On Monday we noted that Florida Man Governor Ron DeSantis had signed into law the new blatantly unconstitutional social media content moderation bill, complete with its extra corrupt Mickey Mouse exemption for (Disney) companies who own (Di... |
| 27.05.2021 | Expert: Florida’s new social media law is “dumb, unconstitutional and unAmerican” and won’t last | Image: iStockphoto
A new Florida law aims to punish social media companies that ban certain users, but experts say that the plan won’t hold up to a legal challenge. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill this week that fines social media companies... |
| 30.09.2020 | Why Do Republican Senators Seem To Want To Turn Every Website Into A Trash Heap Of Racism & Abuse? | Imagine if you could be sued for blocking other users on Twitter, or limiting who could see your Facebook posts. Or if every website were full of racial slurs, conspiracy theories, and fake accounts. Parental control tools could no longer p... |
| 23.06.2020 | Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act | Hello! Someone has referred you to this post because you've said something quite wrong about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. |
| 23.06.2020 | Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act | Hello! Someone has referred you to this post because you’ve said something quite wrong about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. |
| 21.06.2019 | Guy Pushing Hawley's 'Viewpoint Neutrality' Concept In The Media Used To Write For White Supremacist Site | Senator Josh Hawley’s law to wipe out CDA 230 protections for internet platforms unless they apply to the FTC for a special certificate, which they can only get if they show ‘clear and convincing evidence” that their moderation practices ar... |
| 19.06.2019 | Senator Hawley Proposes Law To Force Internet Companies To Beg The FTC For Permission To Host Content | Senate newbie Josh Hawley has made it clear that he’s no fan of big internet companies and has joined with others in suggesting that Section 230 is somehow to blame for whatever it is he dislikes (it mainly seems to be he thinks the public ... |
| 24.09.2016 | Why is San Francisco trying to strangle its golden goose? | Carl Szabo Contributor
Carl Szabo is policy counsel for NetChoice, a trade association working to make the internet more accessible and ubiquitous.
Detroit doesn’t place burdensome regulations on automobile manufacturers; Idaho doesn’t put ... |
| 18.06.2009 | Retail Stores Still Trying To Blame eBay For Shoplifting | Just as the record labels like to blame file sharing for their own business model problems, big retailers have been trying to blame eBay for all sorts of their problems for years. Last summer, the National Retail Federation (NRF), who repre... |
| 09.06.2009 | The Worst Proposed Internet Legislation In America | NetChoice has put together “iAwful,” a site tracking the worst proposed internet legislation, ranked by the seriousness of the threat (both the amount of damage the laws can do, and the liklihood of them passing). Some of the proposed laws ... |
| 25.09.2008 | National Retailers Refuse To Apologize For Claiming eBay Leads To Crime | Earlier this week, we noted that the National Retail Federation, a lobbying group made up of a bunch of large traditional retailers, had claimed to Congress that eBay drove people to shoplift by being so addictive that people couldn’t help ... |
| 23.09.2008 | Retailers Blame eBay For Driving Good People To Shoplift | Wow. Earlier this year we wrote about a bill, basically pushed for by big offline retailers, that would regulate online retailers. The big retailers made some bogus claims about an online “crimewave” that necessitated such legislation. Sinc... |
| - | Rivian Issues R1T Electric Truck Recall for Faulty Airbag Sensors | Rivian Automotive has issued a recall for 502 of its R1T electric trucks due to a potential problem with the front passenger airbag sensors. The recall affects vehicles built between Sept. 21, 2021 and April 12, 2022. The issue stems from a... |
| - | Tech industry group sues to block California law designed to protect kids online over free speech concerns | Tech industry group NetChoice is suing the state of California to block its new Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, which it claims violates the First Amendment.
The group’s members include Amazon, Google, Meta, TikTok and Twitter.
NetChoice p... |
| - | Apple execs and lobbyists — including CEO Tim Cook — visited WH 87 times since Biden took office as antitrust crackdown looms | Apple has launched a major charm offensive in Washington to counter a fresh wave of antitrust heat – and lobbyists and executives including CEO Tim Cook have landed meetings at the White House at least 87 times since President Biden took of... |
| - | Louisiana law would require parental permission to use social media | Kids and teens under 18 years old in Louisiana may soon need their parents’ permission to sign up for online accounts under a newly passed bill in the state.
The bill still needs to be signed by the state’s governor to take effect.
The unan... |
| - | Big Tech lobbyists are calling on the Supreme Court to block a Texas anti-censorship law, warning it would open the floodgates to extremist content | Lobbyists argue the law would allow extremist content to proliferate. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
The Supreme Court has been urged to block an anti-censorship social media law in Texas.
Lobbyists for firms like Google and ... |
| - | Supreme Court blocks Texas social media law that tech companies warned would allow hateful content to run rampant | The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a controversial Texas social media law from taking effect, after the tech industry and other opponents warned it could allow for hateful content to run rampant online.
The legislation would prohibit onli... |
