Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

I have previously written about the top issues addressed by the Treaty , but to recap, the Treaty is a wonderful instrument because it requires exceptions for people who are blind or have other print disabilities in national copyright laws. And when you sign the treaty, you haven’t succeeded. HathiTrust.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

It opens with the time Wynn-Williams had to smuggle Zuckerberg out of a state dinner in Panama, making a break for it past naked dancers and a troupe of horses. One time there's a risk that Facebook employees might be arrested if they step foot in South Korea because the company ignored a local law that applied to Facebook games.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

TikTok says the platform strictly prohibits human smuggling and reports such content to law enforcement. Migrants, too, began to document their often perilous voyages north, posting videos trekking through the jungles of the Darien Gap dividing Colombia and Panama, and after being released by extorting cartels.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

But to a greater extent than most joint addresses to Congress, which newly elected presidents typically use to preview their loftiest aspirations, this felt more like a victory lap from a lame-duck president who sees his victory as a license to plunder the country as much as the law allows, and sometimes beyond it.

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