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The Supreme Court will allow federal agencies to resume widespread communication with social media companies for the purposes of suppressing controversial speech. For everyone who was perturbed by the Twitter Files and Facebook Files—which revealed a vast web of government pressure on private actors, called jawboning—this is a regrettable outcome. The case was Murthy v. Missouri—also known as Missouri v. Biden—and involved a group of individuals who were kicked off Facebook and Twitter. They contended that the platforms took such actions at the behest of the federal government. The Court held ...
Reason
Julian Assange was released from prison this week after agreeing to plead guilty to conspiring to disclose classified documents related to national security. After five years behind bars, it's hard to exactly call this a win for the WikiLeaks founder. But on the surface, it is a loss for the U.S. government, which wanted to put Assange away for a much, much longer period of time. And yet, on some level, authorities got exactly what it seems they wanted: a warning to anyone who would dare to publish information that makes the government look bad. It provides a clear view of what happens when yo...
Reason
A case pending at the U.S. Supreme Court stems from the efforts a multitude of federal agencies made to remove certain viewpoints from public view. In other words, they sought to abridge freedom of speech—you know, that thing that the First Amendment explicitly bans. The case, Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden), may support or overturn the 5th Circuit's ruling that the government violated the First Amendment to reduce the circulation of viewpoints that various agencies believed noxious. This included, the court noted in its decision, controversies surrounding the "COVID-19 lab-lea...
Reason
By The Conversation Job Mwaura, University of the WitwatersrandNationwide demonstrations have erupted in Kenya over a controversial tax bill. The Finance Bill 2024, initially presented to parliament in May, has sparked discontent with an increase in an array of taxes and levies for Kenyans. The mass protests, initially organised in the capital city, Nairobi, have spread across the country. Demonstrations have taken place in almost every city and major town. Digital media and activism expert Job Mwaura shares his insights into how the protests were mobilised on online, and then onto the streets...
BOOM Live
A new pact was made with Denmark's youth organisations to protect children in the EU from the addictive design of social media and tech giants' business models, the Danish government announced on Monday. The alliance, which will include Save the Children, Børns Vilkår, and the Danish Youth Council, hopes to counter features such as infinite scrolling, autoplay, and streaks, all designed to keep users on the platforms, and algorithms that expose children and young people to disturbing and borderline content. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the alliance was created to support and pr...
Euronews (English)
Much more followed on the digital front in the wake of those first 100 days. Now as Von der Leyen’s – possibly first – term comes to an end, we assess the state of technology files proposed over the past five years. Digital policy prioritiesOf the 114 tech files announced during the mandate, some 51 were agreed on, five were withdrawn and four were put on ice, according to data collated by the European Parliament. This does not represent the entirety of digital files introduced by the Commission, but they fall under the “A Europe fit for the digital age” package: one of the pillars of the poli...
Euronews (English)
By Jaishree Kumar When Yash Sharma, 25, and his mother attended the annual pride parade in Delhi in 2022, the photos went viral. Sharma was used to facing hate online, but this time, the trolls targeted his mother too. “It’s odd and worrying, people like my mother have accepted their queer children, why should they face such harassment?” he said. A queer-rights activist and founder of Official Humans of Queer, Sharma runs a page on Instagram dedicated to documenting queer stories from across the spectrum. Sharma would notice a pattern of trolling on his page, they were most prominent when a tr...
BOOM Live
Die Ausländerbehörden der Länder sollen Menschen, die terroristische Taten gutheißen, künftig leichter ausweisen und damit im Einzelfall vielleicht auch eher abschieben können. Das Bundeskabinett billigte nach Angaben aus Regierungskreisen einen entsprechenden Entwurf von Innenministerin Nancy Faeser (SPD). Demnach soll eine Ausweisung - also der Entzug einer Aufenthaltserlaubnis - schon nach Billigung einer einzelnen terroristischen Straftat ermöglicht werden. Zur Frage, was als Verbreitung eines Inhalts gilt, wird in der Begründung des Entwurfs auf ein Urteil des Landgerichts Meiningen verwi...
DPA (German)
Es gibt für viele diesen einen Moment im Leben, wohl irgendwo zwischen den 20ern und 30ern, in dem man sich plötzlich unendlich alt vorkommt. Mal ist es ein unvorbereiteter Anflug von Traurigkeit darüber, dass man beim Bierkauf doch nicht mehr nach dem Ausweis gefragt wird, mal die gesiezte Anrede der offenbar deutlich jüngeren Kassiererin und manchmal einfach der schockierte Blick der Zeltnachbar:innen auf dem Festival, wenn man das eigene Alter nennt. Wenig später kommt dann für die meisten entweder die verfrühte Midlife-Crisis oder die damit eng verbundene Quarterlife-Crisis, zumindest aber...
Watson
A potential U.S. ban on TikTok may significantly impact Oracle’s revenue, as the software giant acknowledged in its annual report released on Monday. This development follows President Joe Biden’s April bill requiring ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, to sell the platform within nine months to avoid a ban in the U.S. TikTok’s relationship with Oracle Oracle provides critical cloud infrastructure for TikTok, which boasts over 150 million U.S. users. The company’s reliance on Oracle’s services means that any disruption could adversely affect Oracle’s financial performance. The company stated th...
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