The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Here’s Chaim Gartenberg at The Verge : Amazon has requested that Congress pass a law that would make price gouging illegal during times of national crisis, in light of inflated prices on crucial goods like hand sanitizer and N95 masks that have hounded the online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Facebook’s proposed solution to this is the Oversight Board , an independent group that will serve as a kind of Supreme Court for content moderation. He said the ban seeks to regulate the exchange of “informational materials” — something that’s expressly exempted from the law laying out the emergency powers Trump invoked.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

I thought of Peter this week while reading about a proposed new lawsuit filed on behalf of workers like him. The law firm involved in the suit was also part of a similar suit against Facebook, Wong reported. “After that, you feel like wow, this world is really crazy. This makes you feel ill. Why are we doing this to each other?”.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

A group of Republican senators led by Marco Rubio is calling on Trump to reject Oracle’s proposed deal with TikTok if the app doesn’t sever ties with ByteDance. “We Now, a deal with TikTok could mean it needs the law, too. Ben Thompson wrote a widely read post on why he thought VR would be smaller than AR in 2018. Governing. ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

One is that there are genuine, good-faith reasons to call for Section 230 reform, even though they’re often drowned out by bad tweets that misunderstand the law. Goodman, a law professor at Rutgers University specializing in information policy, approaches the problem from another angle. Barrett writes (PDF): Ellen P.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The story, by Maxwell Tani and Spencer Ackerman, recounts a controversy that broke out inside the company when one of its 50,000 employees posted a short essay to its internal Workplace forum titled “In Support of Law Enforcement and Black Lives.” Between March 1 and Aug. My heart goes out to the Blake family,” the staffer wrote on Friday. “It

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

ByteDance is reportedly considering all manner of proposed solutions to keep TikTok alive around the world — it’s expected to generate $500 million in revenue this year , after all. Law enforcement authorities are using a company called Dataminr to help monitor social media related to protests. Stylistically, they’re laws.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In the meantime, for reasons we covered here Monday , Trump is facing increasing pushback from Republican members on the deal as it is currently proposed. As the conspiracy theories grows, hate campaigns against local laws and politicians could become more commonplace. (He was expected to be briefed on Thursday morning.)

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Facebook and Google are threatening to cut off news services in Australia if lawmakers pass a proposed law that would force both companies to negotiate with media companies and pay them for content that appears on their sites. Facebook said it would block users from sharing news stories on its platforms if the law moves forward.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

Google gave detailed personal information about far-right users to law enforcement agencies working on counter terrorism, according to leaked documents. Her family used Europe’s right to be forgotten law to try and make the content disappear. The splinternet is coming for every big tech company, and it’s not clear what will save them.

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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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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

“That’s the irony of all this,” said Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford University law professor who studies technology and democracy. An executive order like this had first been proposed last August , after the White House invited ordinary Americans to share stories about times when they felt they had been unfairly censored by social networks.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

European regulators are drafting new laws aimed a curbing the power of the big tech companies in a way that previously regulations have not. Some writers thought a smart take about the hearing would sound something like: “who cares, this won’t change anything.” Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

I particularly liked this proposed question, about Amazon: In a five-week period during the pandemic, your firm added the value of the world’s largest firm by revenue — Walmart. Sharply worded questions about power are no substitute for meaningful regulation, of course. But they may be a start.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Congress may begin writing letters , and new laws will be proposed, so that such a bad post never again appears on the internet. Law enforcement eventually will? Facebook , Twitter , and Google all pushed back against the proposed panel, denying any anticonservative bias. Trump added. Cristiano Lima / Politico ).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

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. Because after their medical loss ratios, they’re making 15 percent of a bigger number, which makes them more money. And do what?

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

The second thing to say about “polarization” is that while it has a lot of negative effects, it’s worth thinking about what your proposed alternative to it would be. And whatever Trump may think, as the law professor Kate Klonick noted , “The First Amendment protects Twitter from Trump. Is it national unity? One-party rule?

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