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News of the Week; August 22, 2018
DIGITAL Will the Canadian Voltage Reverse Class Action Now Fizzle? Twitter Gets Powerful Win in “Must-Carry” Lawsuit–Taylor v. Twitter Appeals Court Says Of Course Twitter Can Kick Racists Off Its Platform As Press Freedom Dies In Turkey, Twitter Is There To Help Dig Its Grave Dutch Government Prosecuting Dutch Citizen For Insulting Turkish President Recep […]
News of the Week; August 15, 2018
DIGITAL Unenforceability in the U.S. a Non-Starter When Google Returns to the BC Supreme Court Google’s servers housed by a third-party ISP qualify as a regular and established place of business to establish proper venue in the Eastern District of Texas How 3-D Printing Exposes the Fallacy of Federal Gun Laws Twitter says InfoWars hasn’t […]
News of the Week; August 8, 2018
DIGITAL How bots amplify hoaxes and propaganda on social media: Zignal Labs CEO Josh Ginsberg says consumers and companies need to know what’s bot-generated and what’s not so they can make informed decisions about things like elections. ‘It’s our time to serve the Motherland’ How Russia’s war in Georgia sparked Moscow’s modern-day recruitment of criminal hackers […]
News of the Week; August 1, 2019
DIGITAL Facebook Loses $120 Billion in Market Value, as Stock Slides on Fears Growth Is Hitting a Wall YouTube comes down on Alex Jones for hate speech, child endangerment content Alex Jones hit with 30-day Facebook suspension for bullying and hate speech: Only Jones’ personal profile is affected, not his official channels, including InfoWars Facebook, […]
News of the Week; July 25, 2018
DIGITAL Microsoft exec: We stopped Russia from hacking 3 congressional campaigns Yes, Russians Hacked U.S. Electric Companies, Homeland Security Confirms Breaking With 30 Years Of Traditional Opacity, DOJ Releases FISA Warrant Applications For Surveillance Of Carter Page Wikileaks Refused To Publish Manafort Family Texts, So Someone Else Did Digital age reinforces the need for judiciary […]