Sources: Trump plans to extend TikTok's June 19 sale deadline; ByteDance told the White House that China wouldn't approve a deal until trade negotiations began
again — as Trump administration pushes deadline back Isaiah Richard / Tech Times : TikTok Ban Extension Reportedly Coming Again: POTUS Trump to Give It More Time After June 19 James Hale / Tubefilter ...
Donald Trump signs an EO ending “federal censorship” of online platforms, and directs the AG to investigate if the Biden admin censored US citizens' free speech
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... [image] Ryan Goodman / @rgoodlaw : This Executive Order appears to be the executive branch taking up the work of Jim Jordan's weaponization of government select sub...
Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order on January 20 to delay enforcing the TikTok US ban and argues for a TikTok joint venture with 50% US ownership
Yes, Trump said he's “most likely” to give #TikTok 90-day extension. — No, that's not a legally available option. — The 270 days lapsed. An extension is no longer available (even if TikTok met 3 ...
Incoming FCC chairman Brendan Carr's censorial agenda, which is couched in the language of free speech, may be the biggest threat to the 1A in quite a long time
www.techdirt.com/2024/11/27/ b... Tim Karr / @timkarr.bsky.social : Where one of the bigger threats to free speech under the coming Trump admin, says the private entity NewsGuard “is under investigati...
The CFPB will supervise tech companies with digital wallets, like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Venmo, with 50M+ annual transactions, treating them more like banks
the Biden/Warren crew just enacted this to stop @X from becoming a payments juggernaut. Wow, a whole new 259-page rule aimed at X...yet more lawfare against you.👊 (Congress can & probably will CRA thi...
The TikTok divestment bill fits into a long and important US tradition of forbidding a hostile foreign power from controlling a major communication platform
and I am thrilled to see Tai seeking—greater balance in trade, the peace that falls between the extremes, avoiding the 20th century tendency to take every notion (like interdependence) beyond its logi...
The White House is backing a bipartisan bill that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok if the company wants to keep the app in US app stores
namely, TikTok's actions that demonstrate a clear national security risk—conduct that is not protected by the First Amendment. Dr. Neal Dunn / @drnealdunnfl2 : Take or leave it! We are trying to remin...
Letter: European regulator Thierry Breton urges Mark Zuckerberg to be “vigilant” about removing disinformation from Meta's platforms during the Israel-Hamas war
and on tackling disinformation in elections in the EU ⤵️ [image] Jakub Simek / @jakubsimek : @ThierryBreton @Meta I think the EU has bigger problems to worry about than lecturing tech companies. How m...
A recap of TikTok CEO Shou Chew's testimony before Congress, in which he struggled to address national security concerns over ByteDance's ownership of TikTok
“[T]he day was dominated by political grandstanding that failed to acknowledge the real solutions already underway through Project Texas or productively address industry-wide issues of youth safety.” ...
The EU's commissioner for the internal market warns Twitter will have to comply with the EU's new digital regulations, saying “the bird will fly by our rules”
Who owns the rainbow? Who owns the clouds, the lakes, the trees … Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg : Musk's Free Speech Plans for Twitter Clash With EU Content Rules Mashable : Parler, Truth Social won't ...