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Kids online safety push faces First Amendment hurdles

As Congress considers competing House and Senate proposals meant to protect kids online, lawmakers have only to look to their states to understand the challenges in seeking to regulate kids’ social media usage without running afoul of the First Amendment. States have already tried some of the same strategies Congress is…

Roll Call

As Will Ferrell’s The Hawk Hits Netflix, Reviews Aren’t Holding Back On The Golf Comedy. ‘Absolute Minimum Number Of Laughs’

Did he miss the green with this one?

Cinemablend

Reviews Of Scary Movie 6 Are Saying The Same Thing, And It’s Honestly Not Something I’d Expect To Hear About The Wayans Brothers

The spoof is back.

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Meta raises raises specter of shutting down service to New Mexico in legal clash over child safety

The social media conglomerate Meta is raising the prospect of shutting down social media services in New Mexico in response to a push by state prosecutors for fundamental changes to platforms including Instagram to protect the mental health and safety of children

The Independent UK

Protecting kids online could backfire

Efforts to rein in the negative aspects of kids online could usher in a new era of censorship, without helping kids

Salon

‘As Superficial As It Is Dull.’ Critics Have Seen Psycho Killer, And They’re Not Pulling Their Punches

Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away!

Cinemablend

Undercover investigation of Meta heads to trial in New Mexico in first stand-alone case by state

The first stand-alone trial from state prosecutors in a stream of lawsuits against Meta is getting underway in New Mexico

The Independent UK

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What to know about the jury trials of Meta, Snap, TikTok and YouTube

Hundreds of parents, teens and school districts have claimed social media is intentionally addictive and harmful

The Guardian - US

Critics Have Seen Now You See Me: Now You Don’t. Does Jesse Eisenberg Make Magic In The Heist Series’ ‘Fun’ But ‘Outwardly Cheesy’ Third Movie?

Who missed the Four Horsemen?

Cinemablend

'Subway Surfing' Death Suit Against TikTok, Meta Further Chips Away at Section 230

Norma Nazario blames her son's death on social media algorithms.

Reason

Sydney woman who sold a cartoon cat T-shirt told to pay US$100,000 in Grumpy Cat copyright case

Alda Curtis, who earned US$1 for the T-shirt she sold on RedBubble, had US$600 removed from her PayPal account without explanation

The Guardian - AU

"Thumbs-Up Emoji Formed Binding Sales Contract in Canada"

Prof. Eric Goldman (Technology & Marketing Law Blog) has the details; an excerpt from the majority opinion that Prof. Goldman… The post "Thumbs-Up Emoji Formed Binding Sales Contract in Canada" appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason

Judge may make Trump's life "miserable"

"He'll have to pay the price of the escalating jail time" if he continues to violate gag order, professor says

Salon

Pornhub Halts Texas Operations in Response to State's Age-Verification Legislation

A 5th Circuit's temporary stay mandates age verification and health warnings on porn sites

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Pornhub suspends site in Texas due to state’s age-verification law

Legal experts say a 5th Circuit decision to uphold part of a Texas law regulating adult entertainment websites conflicts with U.S. Supreme Court precedent regarding minors’ access to obscene material online.

Reason

"In Memoriam: Prof. Dan Burk"

I was very sad to hear yesterday of the untimely death of Prof. Dan Burk (UC Irvine), a leading scholar of intellectual property and of Internet law. I often ran into him and his work, and always much appreciated his contributions. Eric Goldman (Santa Clara) has an excellent remembrance, which…

Reason

Federal Judge Blocks California Online Age-Checking Law as Unconstitutional

Shielding children from “harm” shouldn’t come at the expense of speech protected by the First Amendment.

The Independent UK

Explainer: Why Supreme Court tiptoeing past Section 230 helps Big Tech fueled by social media

Google, Twitter, Facebook and other tech companies fueled by social media have dodged a legal threat that could have blown a huge hole in their business models

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Stephen King slams Elon Musk’s ‘weird’ revamp of Twitter’s blue check marks: ‘I get paid to write. I don’t have to pay to do it’

Stephen King calls Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue subscription “kind of a head-scratcher.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Section 230: the rule before the Supreme Court that made the modern internet, explained

The justices are hearing arguments Tuesday about whether the family of an ISIS terrorism victim from California can sue Google, whose YouTube algorithms, they say, helped extremists spread their message and attract recruits.

The Independent UK

What is Section 230, the rule that made the modern internet?

Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today

Tribune News Service

Google case at Supreme Court risks upending the internet as we know it

An upcoming Supreme Court case could answer one of the toughest questions of the internet age: Should online companies be held responsible for promoting harmful speech?

Tribune News Service

Biden expected to assail Silicon Valley Big Tech in State of the Union address

President Joe Biden will reportedly attack Big Tech in his State of the Union address Tuesday in a bid to unite lawmakers in Washington concerned about the industry’s unprecedented influence and impact on all facets of American life.

The Independent UK

As Musk is learning, content moderation is a messy job

As Elon Musk is finding out, running a global social media platform requires more than a few good algorithms

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: The Supreme Court holds the internet's fate in its hands, and you should be terrified

Almost no one noticed in 1996 when Congress gave online social media platforms sweeping legal immunity from what their users posted on them.

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