VisionLink

JANUARY 21, 2013

Fifty years ago in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and the rest of the old South, Blacks could not drink from "whites only" water fountains, could not sit at "whites only" lunch counters or swim at "whites only" public swimming pools. I grew up in an America where legally-mandated segregation was reality.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The charitable deduction is a vital nexus between the general public, the nonprofit organizations they support, and government policy. Kudos to Georgia Congressman John Lewis for advancing a concurrent resolution back in March to recognize the centenary of the charitable deduction. Urban Institute publications. LinkedIn profile.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 19, 2015

Fifty years ago in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and the rest of the old South, Blacks could not drink from "whites only" water fountains, could not sit at "whites only" lunch counters or swim at "whites only" public swimming pools. I grew up in an America where legally-mandated segregation was reality.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

The license plate is how law enforcement recognizes compliance with your vehicle,” Boston explains. I’m working with law enforcement,” Boston lists off, explaining the breadth and depth of the company’s moat. For government vehicles, the plates are also legal in Colorado, Illinois, Georgia and Florida.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

A new working paper from various university researchers suggests that age-verification laws aren't effective. Age-verification laws differ by state, but typically require visitors of websites with over a third of explicit content to submit ID as proof of age. Forms of ID can range from a digital ID to facial recognition.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

" The ruling establishes that a search engine such as Google must be regarded as a "data controller" under the data protection laws in those EU countries where it operates. The tech support nonprofit, TechBridge in Georgia, has launched the first crowdfunding platform for nonprofit technology projects. Here in the U.S.,

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The Verge

APRIL 14, 2021

Amazon, Apple, Google parent company Alphabet, and Facebook have joined hundreds of corporations, executives, and celebrities in signing a public letter today supporting voting rights and condemning legislation that would “restrict or prevent any eligible voter from having an equal and fair opportunity to cast a ballot,” The New York Times reports.

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The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2021

But there have also been some surprisingly public failures, like the unceremoniously canceled AirPower charging pad , the difficult-to-upgrade Mac Pro that Apple admitted was a mistake, and most of all, the shameful five-year saga where Apple’s flagship MacBook laptops had keyboards that just couldn’t be trusted not to break. trillion now.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

According to the indictment, the efforts also targeted the country of Georgia, the French elections, the 2018 winter Olympics, and investigations into the poisoning of former Russian military officer Sergei Skripal. Andrienko indictment by Russell Brandom on Scribd.

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The Verge

JANUARY 14, 2022

Analysts have tied Russian groups to extensive ransomware operations in Europe and the US, often without interference from local law enforcement. The US Department of Justice had not responded to a request for comment by time of publication.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Rutzen was joined in the hearing by witnesses Eka Gigauri, executive director of the Tbilisi, Georgia Transparency International Georgia, the Georgian arm of a global anti-corruption nonprofit, and Yaqiu Wang, Research Director for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan at Freedom House, a Washington, D.C.-based

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These protests represent a more visible sign of anger at Musk, by using one of his most powerful and accessible visual proxies in the public domainthe Tesla brandas a platform for dissent. Decatur, Georgia. Turnout varied widely from a dozen or so protesters at some events to hundreds who showed up to a protest in San Francisco.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Here’s what you need to know about the IRS guidelines: What Your Nonprofit Can Do Without Jeopardizing Its 501(c)(3) Status Educate the public about important issues related to your cause. Give public statements (verbal or written) on behalf of/in opposition to a specific political candidate. Endorse or rate political candidates.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. Others, such as President Trump’s Muslim ban, took a few tries — but eventually became law.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Federal laws and regulations were written to tightly control the management of sensitive federal dataeven if it has little value to scammers or foreign spies. Earlier this week, more than 20 DOGE staffers resigned, saying they would not use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ?? Here are Katy Stech Ferek and Georgia Wells at The Wall Street Journal : The court drama on Sunday, with the ruling landing less than four hours before the ban was to take effect, was a new chapter in a protracted saga still without a clear ending.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Here are Georgia Wells and Alex Leary in the Wall Street Journal : People involved in the deals have provided differing accounts over the structure of the remaining stake, with a spokesman for ByteDance Ltd., Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. And as Monday dawned, everything went to hell.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

On Sunday, President Trump signed into law Congress’ $900 billion COVID-19 relief and government spending package that would provide $600 in stimulus payments to most Americans. In a public statement after signing the bill, Trump urged congressional leaders to hold a standalone vote on increasing direct payments to $2,000.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

Hegeman said that the company is exploring ways of making reach data public for the first time. The main reason it has not been public to date, I’m told, is that it could raise privacy concerns — you don’t want CrowdTangle making public how many people saw your birthday fundraiser post, probably. Jon Porter / The Verge ).

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

Despite a recent and noble offer to open up its algorithms for inspection , ByteDance suffers from the strong (and, I believe, justified) belief that the company could not withstand any serious effort from the Chinese government to obtain and misuse American user data — or use it as a channel to manipulate our public discourse.

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2021

Before Georgia, net neutrality advocates were facing a gridlock in Congress and the frightening possibility that the incoming president wouldn’t be able to appoint his own FCC commissioners. Flipping these two Senate seats could make the difference between keeping net neutrality in a permanent legal limbo and making it the law of the land.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

This is interesting because, as Jason Del Rey notes at Recode , when it comes to government relations Amazon has been perhaps the most arrogant company of its peers : Despite this growing scrutiny from politicians and the public, Bezos’s company has openly flaunted its power over the last few years. Georgia Wells / The Wall Street Journal ).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

22 percent of the American public interacts with Twitter. You’ll carve away Section 230, the law that says platforms aren’t liable for what users publish, you’ll do algorithmic transparency, you’ll make them audit every content moderation decision they make. But they become reeducation camps, and that’s a problem. And do what?

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