…Even when enforced in good faith, takedown laws can encourage companies to over-moderate non-offending content to reduce risk. Under the Trump administration, the Take It Down Act could also become…
… Adi Robertson Mar 29 Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next Lawmakers don’t want VPNs to stand in the way of online age verification. …
… If an open-source developer does add the necessary age-gating tech, someone else can just create a fork of the software that strips out those measures, and if there’s a legal crackdown, it’s not necessarily clear who’s liable. …
…But if Meta began taking action against these accounts and deemed them “unoriginal,” the entire business model for clippers would collapse. But there’s also the inescapable reality that if people are…
… Anthropic’s “very narrow” red lines “do not go far enough to protect human rights or to comply with international law,” said Tech Justice Law’s Batt. “Anthropic specifically talks about mass domestic surveillance of US persons as posing grave civil liberties concerns, but the same civil liberties c… …
… They compromise lives.” Somewhere between 3,000 and 30,000 Iranians were killed by the regime in the early months of this year; in the lead-up to the war, Trump cited the brutal crackdown on the protests as a reason to attack Iran. …