TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Spain is preparing to push forward with pro-startup legislation, having recently unveiled a big and bold transformation plan with the headline goal, by 2030, of turning the country into ‘Spain Entrepreneurial Nation’, as the slightly clumsy English translation has it. billion for the main measures that we want to start setting up.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. In India, news is out that a new law could ban Bitcoin (whatever that means), and this morning India forced Twitter to take down some accounts that had been critical of government policy.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 29, 2022

Along those same lines, using a VPN to unblock streaming services like Netflix from a country where it's not available isn't technically against the law, but it is a violation of the company's terms of use — i.e., you may get slapped with a warning or error message if caught. Let's not get too brazen, here. Choosing a VPN can be tricky.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Smalls made national headlines last year when, after helping organize the worker protest, he was fired. Amazon said it was because Smalls violated company policy by attending a protest outside the Staten Island facility he worked after he was told to stay home on paid leave because he had been exposed to a co-worker who tested positive.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Imagine what your donors and constituents would say if they saw your name in that headline. Banking laws leave business customers vulnerable to Internet fraud" (March 21, 2010, Los Angeles Times). The MA law is also seen as a herald of what's to come from other states as the privacy threat continues to grow.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Policies on topics as broad as customer usage and employment or as narrow as a drug chemical got the vote across the country. However, if you are trying to craft user policies about politics, consider this election-eve analysis from Taylor Hatmaker about how Facebook and Twitter have changed their approaches since 2016.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 28, 2024

This is not the time for click-bait type headlines or clever messaging that may appear disingenuous. Political Fundraising & Super Pacs Political fundraising supports political candidates, influences policy decisions, and promotes specific political agendas.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

According to New York state law, by not laying off more than 250 people at a time, Better.com is not required to pay out 90 days’ severance as would have been mandated by the state. The company recently rolled out a new leave-of-absence policy that significantly reduces the amount of leave for which team members are eligible.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Although sadly our unabbreviated name is too long to fit the 25-character limit on ad headlines.) This article was written by Robin Reed, Online Outreach Manager for the National Womens Law Center. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. 60) Search « Why Every Nonprofit Should Embrace the Web 2.0

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Per Silberling, the world of adult content has ever been in flux, with creators and other sex workers moving from platform to platform as corporate policies, and national laws evolved.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Lately, you may have noticed headlines about anti-DEI executive orders. Lets chat about some practical ways to stay focused on your values and navigate these challenging headlines. Its a chance to show that youre not just reacting to anti-DEI headlines, but actively building a better future for your team.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai headlined one of the biggest must-watch hearings last summer and they faced tough lines of questioning from lawmakers who (for the most part) did their homework, prepped with thousands of pages of evidence alleging illegal business practices.

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Tableau

MARCH 10, 2022

The headline findings show progress, but clearly there is more work to be done. Reforming and applying inequality laws. As of 2020, the Index highlights that more than three billion girls and women continue to live in countries with ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’ scores. Investing in public services and social infrastructure.

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Tableau

MARCH 10, 2022

The headline findings show progress, but clearly there is more work to be done. Reforming and applying inequality laws. As of 2020, the Index highlights that more than three billion girls and women continue to live in countries with ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’ scores. Investing in public services and social infrastructure.

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M+R

JUNE 7, 2023

We spend a lot of our time working on policy specifics and the political factors needed for change, but at the end of the day our work is really about the people at the heart of these policies. What is our ideal headline? Audiences & Outlets What are the overarching goals for this project?

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APRIL 22, 2021

The first Earth Day inspired and brought to life major legislative moments, including the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the passing of laws like the Clean Water Act, OSHA, Clean Air Act, and Endangered Species Act. It was advocating, activism, and creating lasting change.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

But right-wing supporters have a wildly different view of events: figures like Tucker Carlson have portrayed the convoy as a working-class rebellion, and Trudeau’s response has been treated as enacting martial law, leading Elon Musk to tweet (and then delete) a meme comparing Trudeau to Adolf Hitler.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

Lobby 3, which is also a political lobby, is supposed to allow ordinary users to push for friendlier cryptocurrency policies. (It It was inspired by an Onion headline, Yang explained: “ American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist To Push Interests In Congress.”). In 2019, Polis signed into law the “Colorado Digital Token Act.”

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

The Conscious Kid —The Conscious Kid is an education, research, and policy organization that supports families and educators in taking action to disrupt racism, inequity and bias. The Color of Law. How To Deconstruct Racism, One Headline At A Time, Baratunde Thurston. Attend Events . So you want to talk about race.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Devin writes that the CEO and COO — Feras Antoon and David Tassillo, respectively — abruptly resigned roughly a week following a New Yorker report on the company’s less-than-stellar moderation policies. It’s all speculation at this point, but financial uncertainty might’ve played a part.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

is crafting DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) policy for the industry. It plans to resume iris scans in Kenya , but the debate continues about whether the crypto-powered identification scheme is using the data it is collecting in accordance with local law. There’s a lesson there : Dominic-Madori takes a dive into the U.K.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

On Monday, Twitter placed a “public interest notice” over the tweet, saying that it violated the company’s policies against hateful conduct. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called on McCarthy to “join in condemning this horrific video and call on the Ethics Committee and law enforcement to investigate” in a Tuesday tweet.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

On to the headlines from TechCrunch and Extra Crunch: If you didn’t make $1B this week, you are not doing VC right (EC). What does Joe Biden intend as president around technology policy? Whatever policy priorities emerge out of the Biden administration, Obama’s technocratic gilded age is over and we’re in for something new.”

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

Managing compliance across the globe is no jokenavigating laws across multiple countries increases chances of misclassification penalties and other legal troubleswhich is why more companies are pivoting to an employer of record (EOR) solution. Leading from a distance Global workforce management is the ultimate test of leadership qualities.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The stories detail an opaque, separate system of government for elite users known as XCheck; provide evidence that Instagram can be harmful to a significant percentage of teenage girls ; and reveal that entire political parties have changed their policies in response to changes in the News Feed algorithm. Pass a law? Not this year.

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The Verge

APRIL 26, 2022

In a TED interview, he indicated that Twitter should “match the laws of the country,” which suggests he could continue practices like region-locking certain content and follow rules like India’s social media regulations. But, at this point, we don’t know very much about how Musk would concretely change Twitter’s speech policies.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

And the various policies announced to remove or label problematic posts could inject a welcome dose of reality into the more unhinged conspiracy theories about the election that are now swirling in the fever swamps. At the same time, as Steve Kovach notes at CNBC, the policies announced Thursday have some obvious limitations.

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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 recent months, Trump has often used Section 230 as a negotiating tool to push forward other policy priorities or tie up unwanted legislation.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Since his inauguration last month, he has set about remaking American trade policy even more dramatically than he did in his first term. In fact, the Constitution does not give the president the power to impose tariffs or make trade policy. Trumps time out of the White House has not changed his mind on that subject. When George W.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

After three hours of questions from the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet, the PACT Act looks like an attempted truce between Section 230 reformers and supporters of the law. It is okay to update a law. Ron Wyden (D-OR) in 1996.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

He was instrumental in drafting the state's consumer privacy law in 2018. After all, lawsuits that force companies to reveal their inner-workings and adopt safety measures tend to create bad headlines, reduce investor confidence, and sow public distrust. We didn't have the regulatory authority to overreach, even if we wanted to."

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

He calls them out over bias, and they rewrite policies making him the one exception to their rules, taking care never to punch back. His fights with the tech companies last just long enough to generate headlines, but flame out before they can make a meaningful policy impact. Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

We believe all companies should disclose their algorithms, moderation policies, and data flows to regulators,” then-TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer said at the time. “We I asked Michael Beckerman, a TikTok vice president and head of US public policy, about that challenge. We will not wait for regulation to come.”. Popular Information ).

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

The order has already initiated a rolling back of protections for LGBTQ people and the weaponization of federal law against trans communities , according to both the Human Rights Campaign and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). State Department on behalf of seven plaintiffs for a new policy that bans the "X" gender marker on U.S.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

The company gave them a variety of executives to speak with on and off the record, including Joel Kaplan, its vice president of global public policy, who often pops up in stories like this to complain that some action might disproportionately hurt conservatives. He threatened to shut down social media companies.

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