Tennessee’s age gate now gets another hearing, with online speech and compliance costs back in the frame. Source: Author: Cindy Harper All rewards will be burned.

The platform’s public rulebook is now being compared with what happens behind the curtain. Source: Author: Dan Frieth All rewards will be burned.

Washington's deal has barely settled before Brussels and Westminster come calling. Source: Author: Cindy Harper All rewards will be burned.

New York’s law stops short of telling platforms what to censor, but it gives the Attorney General a remarkably detailed window into how they decide what survives online. Source: Author: Cindy Harper All

Foreign censors have discovered that sending threatening emails to US platforms is cheap. Michael Rulli’s bill is designed to make the next step considerably more expensive. Source: Author: Christina Maas

Pennsylvania says Snapchat’s age gate fails children, but its proposed fix would mean verifying everyone who uses the app. Source: Author: Ken Macon All rewards will be burned.

Brazil says it is protecting children, but its demands could require Discord to know far more about who its users actually are. Source: Author: Cindy Harper All rewards will be burned.

Josh Hawley wants to know what Flock Safety knows, and he has given the company twelve days to write it all down. Source: Author: Dan Frieth All rewards will be burned.

Nothing about this is illegal, secret, or even particularly new, and that is sort of the problem. Source: Author: Ken Macon All rewards will be burned.

There was no revenue here and no competing product, only a way to privately read public posts that the platform did not control. Source: Author: Rick Findlay All rewards will be burned.

Protecting kids is the stated goal. Handing over your identity is the price. Source: Author: Ken Macon All rewards will be burned.

Under the teen safety provisions is a court-supervised identity system for every Facebook and Instagram user. Source: Author: Dan Frieth All rewards will be burned.

The vague standard is chatbots that undermine child safety. The penalty is criminal, not civil. Source: Author: Cindy Harper All rewards will be burned.

The DOJ's child safety demands run through COPPA verifiable parental consent, government ID, and face scans. Source: Author: Cindy Harper All rewards will be burned.

Waltham outsourced its public meeting recordings, and the contractor used DMCA notices to pull 15 news videos. Source: Author: Christina Maas All rewards will be burned.

He wanted his notifications back and got a lesson in browser telemetry instead. Source: Author: Ken Macon All rewards will be burned.

Pavel Durov is still facing criminal charges in France, and he says the investigation is really about forcing Telegram to surrender its principles. Source: Author: Cindy Harper All rewards will be burned.

The precedent is more than the content removals. The precedent is that a legislature can keep inventing new categories of people entitled to them. Source: Author: Dan Frieth All rewards will be burned.