free speech
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AOC Files Measure to Kill U.S. Military Twitch Streams as Battle Over Protester Bans Heats Up
U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez plans to file an amendment that would bar any part of the U.S. military from spending federal funds to operate accounts on any “video game, esports, or live-streaming platform,” Vice reported on Wednesday. At the same time, prominent civil rights groups have demanded service branches immediately reverse bans of users…
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U.S. Copyright Office Says It’s Time To Update The DMCA, Mostly In Favour Of Rightsholders
The U.S. Copyright Office has released a long-awaited, 192-page report that could give the music and movie industry an opening to fight for stricter enforcement of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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Founder Of 8Chan Faces Prison Time In The Philippines For Calling Current Owner ‘Senile’
Frederick Brennan, the founder of the fringe 8chan discussion board that disbanded after users on its far-right /pol/ subforum were linked to multiple mass shootings, could face arrest in the Philippines thanks to criminal libel charges brought by the site’s current owner, Jim Watkins.
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Biden To Zuckerberg: You Wanna Go? Let’s Go You Cow-Handed Fussbudget!
U.S. Democratic presidential contender and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called the Silicon Valley set “creeps,” said that Facebook and “other platforms” should lose their Section 230 protections under the Communications Decency Act, and argued that Mark Zuckerberg should face lawsuits and possibly criminal charges over political ads smearing him in an interview with…