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As California (and possibly Congress) are, again, revisiting instituting link taxes in the US, it’s worth highlighting that our prediction about the Canadian link tax has now been shown to be correct. It didn’t harm Meta one bit to remove news.
The entire premise behind these link taxes/bargaining codes is that social media gets “so much free value” from news orgs, that they must pay up. Indeed,...
Israeli malware manufacturer NSO Group spent years making good money selling to bad people. Its only concern for the longest time was how long it would take nearby autocrats and totalitarians to start targeting Israeli citizens.
To be fair, the Israeli government shares at least some of the blame. Surrounded by entities that would love to see it erased from the earth, the government helped broker...
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Holding social media companies solely responsible for the mental health challenges faced by today’s youth is not only misguided—it’s dangerous. Misdiagnosing the problem means your solutions are going to be actively harmful.
I know that, these days especially, it seems that the thing everyone across the political aisle seems to agree on is that the internet is uniquely harmful for children, and,...
Before the Biden FCC restored net neutrality, there was concern that the new net neutrality rules weren’t as tough as the ones discarded by the Trump administration. While the draft rules did require ISPs be transparent about the limits of your broadband connection, and barred big ISPs from blocking or throttling competitors, there were concerns they still allowed ISPs to create preferential “...
Every once in a while you get a trademark bullying story that meets a just and proper end. Almost a year ago, we discussed how Louis Vuitton, famous maker of luxury fashion products and infamous trademark bully, did its bullying thing when it opposed the trademark application for a company in the UK called L V Bespoke. Louis Vuitton asserted that only it could use the letters “L” and “V” in its...
Despite the best efforts of automakers and companies like Apple, states continue to push forward with popular “right to repair” reforms that make it easier and more affordable for consumers to repair tech they own.
While they vary in potency, New York, Oregon, California, Massachusetts, Colorado, Maine, and Minnesota have all now passed some flavor of right to repair reforms. Colorado just got...
The Fifth Circuit Appeals Court has a particularly antagonistic relationship with long-held constitutional rights. It is, without argument, the most cop-friendly circuit in the nation — one that has managed to surpass even the generous immunity-or-else guidelines set down by the Supreme Court often enough that the nation’s top court has had to roll back rulings from this set of circuit judges....
If you were to ask someone to state the birthday of someone else, and the person asked just made up a date, which was not the actual birthday, would you argue that the individual’s privacy had been violated? Would you argue that there should be a legal right to demand that the person explain how they came up with the made-up date and to permanently “store” the proper birth date in their mind?
Or...
Well, things certainly suck for cops looking to hassle minorities and/or engage in roadside fishing expeditions in California. And the cops have no one to blame but themselves.
Five hundred thirty-five agencies conducted a total of 4,575,725 stops from January 1, 2022 toDecember 31, 2022.
Black individuals were stopped 131.5 percent more frequently than expected, given their relative...