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And another one. Apple is endangering people — and it's not masked agents of ICE www.404media.co/apple-banned...

2025-10-09 View on X

404 Media

Apple removes Eyes Up, which simply archives videos of ICE abuses, from the App Store; unlike ICEBlock, Eyes Up doesn't share ICE officers' real-time locations

and it's not masked agents of ICE www.404media.co/apple-banned... Benn Jordan / @bennjordan : Your smartphone manufacturer doesn't think you deserve 1st or 4th amendment rights. —...

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The FTC is trying to criminalize boycotts. Advertisers not wanting to be associated with Elon Musk aren't colluding; they're using common sense. Targeting activists who oppose turning Twitter into a toxic cesspool is an abuse of power that is way out of bounds for the FTC.

2025-05-23 View on X

New York Times

Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Media Matters illegally colluded with advertisers; Elon Musk sued the advocacy group in 2023

we have weird fucking zealots steering the lobotomized husk of what used to be semi-coherent federal governance [embedded post] Ryan Mac / @rmac : So is the federal government just...

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This is awful. Nobody deserves to be treated the way Gigi was treated. The Democrats' failure to speak out against industry-orchestrated smears cost us a great leader and public servant at the FCC. Shameful. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

2023-03-08 View on X

Washington Post

Biden's FCC nominee Gigi Sohn tells the White House she is dropping out after her nomination stalled for 16 months amid industry opposition and personal attacks

a huge setback. As we learned when I authored CA's successful net neutrality law, these industries will stop at nothing to kill pro-consumer laws https://www.washingtonpost.com/ .....

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“Congress put strong consumer protections into the laws to prevent these types of egregious actions from occurring in the first place, and these companies have a lot to answer for,” said ⁦⁦@FrankPallone⁩, “I intend to hold them accountable.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

2022-10-26 View on X

Washington Post

An investigation details how US telecom giants abused the FCC's $14B Affordable Connectivity Program by introducing price hikes, speed cuts, and fraud risks

tapped to run it — opened door to price hikes, speed cuts, fraud risks and other trouble. My latest for our series, the Covid Money Trail: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Tony ...

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There's a question of: Are we going to have a democracy? ... And yet, I don't think they are taking that question seriously," said ⁦@JGo4Justice⁩ @freepress, which is helping to lead the coalition. “We can't keep playing the same games over and over.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

2022-09-23 View on X

Washington Post

Some civil rights groups say they have seen little action from Meta, Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube to bolster election policies ahead of the 2022 US midterms

yet big tech companies continue to do little to stop the continued proliferation of election misinformation on their sites. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @globalextremism : ⁦...

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“The agency claims that it's not going to make rules, it's merely going to interpret the supposed ambiguities in the language of Section 230 and let courts apply that interpretation. But there's no ambiguity to resolve.” https://arstechnica.com/...

2020-10-22 View on X

Ars Technica

FCC's top lawyer defends its authority to interpret Section 230, saying 1996 legislation that included Section 230 amended a 1934 act that created the FCC

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :

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“Facebook has ... an appeasement strategy: Tell us what we need to hear, and Facebook can keep doing whatever they like. What they really need is a comprehensive sweep of the site of white supremacists, homophobes, anti-Semites ...” — ⁦@JGo4Justice⁩ https://www.nytimes.com/...

2020-07-09 View on X

New York Times

An independent audit commissioned by Facebook harshly criticizes the company, arguing that some of its decisions were “significant setbacks for civil rights”

but Facebook will ignore because Facebook is Facebook and will always be Facebook for as long as Facebook is allowed to decide what Facebook shouldn't and shouldn't do on Facebook....

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“Facebook has ... an appeasement strategy: Tell us what we need to hear, and Facebook can keep doing whatever they like. What they really need is a comprehensive sweep of the site of white supremacists, homophobes, anti-Semites ...” — ⁦@JGo4Justice⁩ https://www.nytimes.com/...

2020-07-08 View on X

New York Times

An independent audit commissioned by Facebook harshly criticizes the company, arguing that some of its decisions were “significant setbacks for civil rights”

An independent audit faulted the social network for “vexing and heartbreaking decisions” that affect its users — and potentially the November elections.

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Zuckerberg is Rupert Murdoch 2.0. Classic media mogul behavior. Same playbook, increasingly same politics. https://www.axios.com/...

2020-06-01 View on X

CNBC

As some Facebook employees publicly express anger, Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook is committing $10M to groups working on racial injustice

- At least six Facebook employees have condemned CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision to leave up President Trump's post.

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Last week, I wrote about the heartbreaking loss in the Senate, where we fell *one vote short* of stopping unwarranted spying on your internet browsing when 10 Democrats voted the wrong way and two didn't show up. The upside: We can still fix this bill! https://twitter.com/...

2020-05-23 View on X

CNET

Mozilla, Twitter, and a coalition that includes Facebook, Apple, and Google, call on Congress to protect search and browser data from warrantless access

A recent amendment to require the FBI to get a warrant to view browsing data failed by one vote. — A group of technology companies …

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