Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification
Bluesky's decision to drop out of the Mississippi market … Rob Pegoraro / PCMag : Bluesky Blocks Mississippi Users Instead of Making Them Prove They're Over 18 Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press ...
Apple announces support for alternative app stores in the EU, charging no commission but instead an annual €0.50 Core Technology Fee per install per account
including sideloading John Voorhees / MacStories : Apple Details How It Plans to Comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act Siôn Geschwindt / TNW : Apple begrudgingly allows EU customers to use rival ap...
Under a new Louisiana law, visitors to websites that contain 33.3% or more pornographic material must verify their age, including by using LA Wallet
To enact R.S. 9:2800.28, relative to material harmful to minors … Christopher Hutton / Washington Examiner : Government ID now required to access online pornography in Louisiana Samantha Cole / VICE :...
Twitter rolls out its content warning feature to let all users obscure an individual photo or video with a warning for nudity, violence, or “sensitive” content
Adi Robertson / The Verge : Tweets: @twittersupport Tweets: @twittersupport : The option to add one-time sensitive content warnings to photos and videos you Tweet is now available for everyone across...
Facebook will start demoting all Groups content from users who have violated policies elsewhere on the site, and will let admins review flagged content
Adi Robertson / The Verge :
The time has come for Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to deplatform Trump, whose continued presence is accelerating the erosion of US democracy
In December 2016, when then-President-elect Donald Trump summoned tech leaders … Wall Street Journal : ‘Trump or War’: How the Capitol Mob Mobilized on Social Media Gilad Edelman / Wired : Even Mark Z...
Recording of Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Section 230 where Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sundar Pichai testified
bringing in Zuckerberg, Pichai, & Dorsey to defend their content moderation under threat of gutting Section 230, days before the election—feels like a last-ditch effort to spook them out of enforcing ...
A group of 75+ scholars and non-profits urges social media companies to preserve data on content removal during the pandemic and make it available for research
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Two dozen US state AGs sent a letter to the White House requesting the administration pull blueprints for Defense Distributed's 3D-printed guns offline
Adi Robertson / The Verge : Tweets: @teamtrace Tweets: @teamtrace : A coalition of Attorneys General wants the Trump administration to crack down on the online sharing of 3D-printed-gun blueprints. h...
Reddit revises its policies to broaden the definition of threats, harassment, and bullying and now lets anyone report violations of its rules, not just victims
Adi Robertson / The Verge :