TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Twitter faces a $250 million lawsuit filed by major music publishers The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), representing 17 publishers, listed 1,700 songs for which it sent multiple copyright violation notices to Twitter. The deal came after months of legal drama , bad memes and will-they-or-won’t-they-chaos.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

This is politics – we need the good and the bad; the cyber army, the 10,000 bloggers claimed to be trained by the national guard, etc. site we had to be compliant with Chinese law. They work like memes, the speed people react and join in. Which causes a lot of Iranian politics to take place outside of the country.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Look close enough at any system of law or content moderation and it can start to feel arbitrary, but Apple’s has proven to be particularly vulnerable to criticisms. Employees around the world will get paid time off to vote in national elections. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

The setup essentially allows it to navigate a thicket of tax laws in such a way that it can raise money, and blitz the airwaves with ads, without the obligation of disclosing all of its donors. Many powerful political actors — including the National Rifle Association — similarly operate with the aid of “social welfare” groups.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

On the campaign trail, Trump pledged support for a strategic national bitcoin stockpile, which would include bitcoin the U.S. government has previously seized in law enforcement actions. Sunday’s announcement was the first time he advocated for the government to hold other types of cryptocurrencies.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Republican Congressman Paul Gosar (AZ) ignited national fury this week after tweeting a video portraying himself as an anime character killing other prominent lawmakers. Gosar’s video is just the latest example of a long-standing interest in the meme culture that’s popular in far-right internet communities. They have no joy.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

becoming a meme on this week’s episode of The Vergecast. But also, you’ve kind of become a meme. NP: You’re a meme! MK: As all good memes should be, it’s authentic, right? You are a meme, so that’s important. You wrote the National Broadband Plan in 2008. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

Maybe your reaction is that’s terrible, we should get rid of the law that makes all that posting possible. Is that why so many of its decisions around content moderation suddenly feel like national emergencies? Officials said the decision was made over concerns that the apps threatened India’s national security. Talk to us.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

I’d still rather have a truly competitive domestic market for social apps than a monopolistic national champion waging battle on America’s behalf, though. Big tech companies including Google , Amazon and Qualcomm are bankrolling The Global Antitrust Institute at George Mason University, which teaches a hands-off approach to antitrust law.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

antitrust law,” Yale University economics professor Fiona Scott Morton, the chief economist in the Justice Department’s antitrust division from 2011-2012, wrote in a new academic paper entitled “Roadmap for a Digital Advertising Monopolization Case Against Google.”. Here’s how Congress is shaping data privacy laws during the pandemic.

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