French President Emmanuel Macron says the government was not involved in the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and “this is in no way a political decision”
Roblox has more daily active users than TikTok, but is rarely covered for example Alex Howard / @digiphile : This is not the “end of global social media,” as @semaforben suggested, but it may be the b...
A US judge dismisses X's lawsuit against CCDH, saying the suit had been brought as a means toward “punishing the defendants for their speech”; X plans to appeal
in a win for free speech. https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ... Mastodon: Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social : Good. Musk does not support free speech. He supports his speech and tries to us...
Court filing: Twitter's lawyers say the “Twitter Files” show no government interference at the company, implying Elon Musk lied about what the files revealed
Mike Masnick / Techdirt : Tweets: @nils_gilman and @digiphile Tweets: Nils Gilman / @nils_gilman : “Twitter's filing is like a beat-by-beat debunking of the conspiracy theories pushed by the dude who...
The DOJ sues Google, joined by California and seven other US states, calling for the breakup of its ad tech business that allegedly monopolizes the US ad market
1. An open, vibrant internet is indispensable to American life. Lauren Feiner / CNBC : DOJ files second antitrust suit against Google, seeks to break up its ad business Wall Street Journal : DOJ Sues ...
As videos from court hearings on Zoom go viral, a look at the debate over privacy of citizens in those videos and judicial transparency on the internet
Gita Jackson / VICE : Tweets: @kari_paul , @jason_koebler , @digiphile , @misupremecourt , and @motherboard Tweets: Kari Paul / @kari_paul : Covid has moved many court hearings to Zoom, allowing peop...
Facebook's refusal to pay a misguided media tax, pushed by Rupert Murdoch, is a defense of the open web and criticizing it for rejecting a link tax is bizarre
I have no problem with “big tech” or “Silicon Valley” or anything else, just Facebook which is really bad. James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki : No way to win. Facebook chooses not to pay. Google, doi...
In a letter to Sen. Wyden, ODNI says FBI used Section 215 of the Patriot Act to collect website visitor logs without a warrant, but not keywords from searches
before being caught by DOJ. https://twitter.com/... Jameel Jaffer / @jameeljaffer : It's been obvious from the outset that Section 215 would be used in precisely this way. Congress should have narrowe...
Facebook makes an initial commitment of $130M to its upcoming Oversight Board and says it will not announce the first members this year as originally expected
But Punts On Launching It Allison Matyus / Digital Trends : Facebook's long-promised Supreme Court for content won't be here for a long time Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Facebook Allocates...
DoJ issued a grand jury subpoena to identify commenters on a Silk Road post at Reason.com, alleging threats were made against federal judge
At Popehat, Ken White reveals that my second … Colin Lecher / The Verge : Feds want to unmask internet commenters writing about the Silk Road trial judge Mike Masnick / Techdirt : Justice Department I...