The Justice Department is ratcheting up pressure on digital platforms with a new proposal to restrict the immunity that protects online companies from being held legally accountable for user-posted content, according to the Wall Street Journal. But the proposal may be more flash than substance. It would require congressional action to enact and it is unlikely to get through the...
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If you’re on the East Coast, you might have experienced the internet outage this morning that played havoc with Zoom calls, Gmail and other everyday working tools. Unlike previous outages, this wasn’t caused by a cloud provider like AWS or a specific application like Slack but by Verizon, which owned up to a “fiber cut” in Brooklyn. It’s a reminder of the critical...
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