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  1. #NetChoice is suing #Virginia over a new law restricting #minors#socialmedia use to one hour per day. The lawsuit claims the law violates the #FirstAmendment by limiting access to #freespeech and poses #privacy and #security risks due to #ageverification requirements. NetChoice argues that such #restrictions are #unconstitutional and should be left to parents. theverge.com/news/822475/netch #tech #media #news

  2. US Supreme Court Greenlights Age Verification of All Social Media Users

    The age verification government surveillance and censorship is only getting worse thanks to a Supreme Court ruling.

    freezenet.ca/us-supreme-court-

    #Censorship #LawAndTechnology #News #AgeVerification #court #lawsuit #NetChoice #ruling #SCOTUS #US

  3. #Tech industry group sues #Arkansas over new #socialmedia #laws

    > Arkansas is among several states that have been enacting restrictions on social media, prompted by concerns about the impact on children’s mental health. #NetChoice — whose members include #TikTok, #Facebook parent #Meta, and the social platform #X — challenged Arkansas’ 2023 #ageVerification #law for social media.

    apnews.com/article/net-choice-

    #technology #news #ageVerificationLaw

  4. Almost two weeks in Pacific time, starting with Black Hat and ending with some family time in the Bay Area, should have ended at around 9 p.m. Sunday. But the line of thunderstorms that swept through the D.C. area and shut down ramp operations at Dulles for a chunk of the evening had other ideas, which is why we got a free tour of IAD during a two-hour wait for a gate and why I’m now typing this sentence from baggage claim after midnight Monday.

    8/13/2024: How Hughes Network Systems could bring satellite terminal manufacturing down to Earth, Light Reading

    I visited Hughes’ new factory the day before I flew out to Vegas for Black Hat two weeks ago, then wrote this piece on Monday to include some news about Hughes’ contract to manufacture terminals for the low-Earth-orbit satellite-broadband firm OneWeb that Hughes PR gave me in advance.

    8/13/2024: Patreon to Creators: Sorry, We Have to Let Apple Take a Cut of In-App Support, PCMag

    I could not have written this story the way I did had I not set up shop on Patreon over five years ago and supported other creators on that platform. Some definitions of journalistic ethics would call that being too close to the story, but sometimes there’s no replacement for lived experience in a subject.

    Later that day, I followed up by writing a post for Patreon readers explaining that I was not going to eat Apple’s cut, which meant that they could choose between paying about 43 percent extra (an increase Patreon calculated to ensure that creators would earn the same from a patron regardless of where they signed up) or following my advice to sign up on the Web.

    8/15/2024: Come Out and Play: An Oral History of the HFStival, Washingtonian

    I enjoyed the hell out of revisiting some of my favorite RFK memories with Washingtonian’s Andrew Beaujon over a long phone interview in May. I also enjoyed seeing my one quote from that conversation follow extended testimony from musicians in some of my favorite D.C. indie-rock bands of that era: the Dismemberment Plan, Jawbox, Tuscadero and Velocity Girl.

    8/15/2024: Ep 104 SmartTechCheck Podcast — HEB and Apple Pay, Google news, desktop PC thoughts, BlackHat, Mark Vena

    I joined my industry-analyst friend’s podcast to share my thoughts on Black Hat and to compare notes with fellow tech scribes John Quain and Dwight Silverman.

    8/16/2024: Court: Calif. Child-Safety Bill Turns Businesses Into ‘Censors for the State’, PCMag

    One state’s law about online child safety getting blocked by a federal appeals court might not seem like national news, but California is a very large state and the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act has already inspired similar laws in other states and a bill that passed the Senate last month.

    8/17/2024: Court Stops Disney-Fox-WBD ‘Venu’ Live Sports Service on Antitrust Grounds, PCMag

    Friday gave me a second opportunity to digest a fairly lengthy court ruling and explain it to readers, this time one that halted the rollout of a sports streaming service on antitrust grounds.

    https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/19/weekly-output-hughes-network-systems-manufactures-in-maryland-apples-app-store-tax-hits-patreon-creators-hfstival-mark-vena-podcast-calfornia-online-child-safety-law-stayed-venu-sports-streami/

    #AgeAppropriateDesignCode #AppStore #AppStore30_ #BlackHat #Fubo #FuboTV #HughesNetworkSystems #MarkVena #NetChoice #OneWeb #Patreon #sportsStreaming #Venu

  5. Almost two weeks in Pacific time, starting with Black Hat and ending with some family time in the Bay Area, should have ended at around 9 p.m. Sunday. But the line of thunderstorms that swept through the D.C. area and shut down ramp operations at Dulles for a chunk of the evening had other ideas, which is why we got a free tour of IAD during a two-hour wait for a gate and why I’m now typing this sentence from baggage claim after midnight Monday.

    8/13/2024: How Hughes Network Systems could bring satellite terminal manufacturing down to Earth, Light Reading

    I visited Hughes’ new factory the day before I flew out to Vegas for Black Hat two weeks ago, then wrote this piece on Monday to include some news about Hughes’ contract to manufacture terminals for the low-Earth-orbit satellite-broadband firm OneWeb that Hughes PR gave me in advance.

    8/13/2024: Patreon to Creators: Sorry, We Have to Let Apple Take a Cut of In-App Support, PCMag

    I could not have written this story the way I did had I not set up shop on Patreon over five years ago and supported other creators on that platform. Some definitions of journalistic ethics would call that being too close to the story, but sometimes there’s no replacement for lived experience in a subject.

    Later that day, I followed up by writing a post for Patreon readers explaining that I was not going to eat Apple’s cut, which meant that they could choose between paying about 43 percent extra (an increase Patreon calculated to ensure that creators would earn the same from a patron regardless of where they signed up) or following my advice to sign up on the Web.

    8/15/2024: Come Out and Play: An Oral History of the HFStival, Washingtonian

    I enjoyed the hell out of revisiting some of my favorite RFK memories with Washingtonian’s Andrew Beaujon over a long phone interview in May. I also enjoyed seeing my one quote from that conversation follow extended testimony from musicians in some of my favorite D.C. indie-rock bands of that era: the Dismemberment Plan, Jawbox, Tuscadero and Velocity Girl.

    8/15/2024: Ep 104 SmartTechCheck Podcast — HEB and Apple Pay, Google news, desktop PC thoughts, BlackHat, Mark Vena

    I joined my industry-analyst friend’s podcast to share my thoughts on Black Hat and to compare notes with fellow tech scribes John Quain and Dwight Silverman.

    8/16/2024: Court: Calif. Child-Safety Bill Turns Businesses Into ‘Censors for the State’, PCMag

    One state’s law about online child safety getting blocked by a federal appeals court might not seem like national news, but California is a very large state and the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act has already inspired similar laws in other states and a bill that passed the Senate last month.

    8/17/2024: Court Stops Disney-Fox-WBD ‘Venu’ Live Sports Service on Antitrust Grounds, PCMag

    Friday gave me a second opportunity to digest a fairly lengthy court ruling and explain it to readers, this time one that halted the rollout of a sports streaming service on antitrust grounds.

    https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/19/weekly-output-hughes-network-systems-manufactures-in-maryland-apples-app-store-tax-hits-patreon-creators-hfstival-mark-vena-podcast-calfornia-online-child-safety-law-stayed-venu-sports-streami/

    #AgeAppropriateDesignCode #AppStore #AppStore30_ #BlackHat #Fubo #FuboTV #HughesNetworkSystems #MarkVena #NetChoice #OneWeb #Patreon #sportsStreaming #Venu

  6. Almost two weeks in Pacific time, starting with Black Hat and ending with some family time in the Bay Area, should have ended at around 9 p.m. Sunday. But the line of thunderstorms that swept through the D.C. area and shut down ramp operations at Dulles for a chunk of the evening had other ideas, which is why we got a free tour of IAD during a two-hour wait for a gate and why I’m now typing this sentence from baggage claim after midnight Monday.

    8/13/2024: How Hughes Network Systems could bring satellite terminal manufacturing down to Earth, Light Reading

    I visited Hughes’ new factory the day before I flew out to Vegas for Black Hat two weeks ago, then wrote this piece on Monday to include some news about Hughes’ contract to manufacture terminals for the low-Earth-orbit satellite-broadband firm OneWeb that Hughes PR gave me in advance.

    8/13/2024: Patreon to Creators: Sorry, We Have to Let Apple Take a Cut of In-App Support, PCMag

    I could not have written this story the way I did had I not set up shop on Patreon over five years ago and supported other creators on that platform. Some definitions of journalistic ethics would call that being too close to the story, but sometimes there’s no replacement for lived experience in a subject.

    Later that day, I followed up by writing a post for Patreon readers explaining that I was not going to eat Apple’s cut, which meant that they could choose between paying about 43 percent extra (an increase Patreon calculated to ensure that creators would earn the same from a patron regardless of where they signed up) or following my advice to sign up on the Web.

    8/15/2024: Come Out and Play: An Oral History of the HFStival, Washingtonian

    I enjoyed the hell out of revisiting some of my favorite RFK memories with Washingtonian’s Andrew Beaujon over a long phone interview in May. I also enjoyed seeing my one quote from that conversation follow extended testimony from musicians in some of my favorite D.C. indie-rock bands of that era: the Dismemberment Plan, Jawbox, Tuscadero and Velocity Girl.

    8/15/2024: Ep 104 SmartTechCheck Podcast — HEB and Apple Pay, Google news, desktop PC thoughts, BlackHat, Mark Vena

    I joined my industry-analyst friend’s podcast to share my thoughts on Black Hat and to compare notes with fellow tech scribes John Quain and Dwight Silverman.

    8/16/2024: Court: Calif. Child-Safety Bill Turns Businesses Into ‘Censors for the State’, PCMag

    One state’s law about online child safety getting blocked by a federal appeals court might not seem like national news, but California is a very large state and the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act has already inspired similar laws in other states and a bill that passed the Senate last month.

    8/17/2024: Court Stops Disney-Fox-WBD ‘Venu’ Live Sports Service on Antitrust Grounds, PCMag

    Friday gave me a second opportunity to digest a fairly lengthy court ruling and explain it to readers, this time one that halted the rollout of a sports streaming service on antitrust grounds.

    https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/19/weekly-output-hughes-network-systems-manufactures-in-maryland-apples-app-store-tax-hits-patreon-creators-hfstival-mark-vena-podcast-calfornia-online-child-safety-law-stayed-venu-sports-streami/

    #AgeAppropriateDesignCode #AppStore #AppStore30_ #BlackHat #Fubo #FuboTV #HughesNetworkSystems #MarkVena #NetChoice #OneWeb #Patreon #sportsStreaming #Venu

  7. ICYMI: CDT’s Becca Branum argues in a recent blog post that the recent #SCOTUS ruling in Moody v. #NetChoice settles little on platform #transparency: cdt.org/insights/moody-v-netch

  8. @CenDemTech’s VP of Policy Samir Jain spoke with Texas’ KETR Radio about the recent #Netchoice decision that challenged the Texas and Florida social media laws. ketr.org/news/2024-07-02/u-s-s

  9. 〝Today’s ruling makes clear there’s no social media exception to the First Amendment. The government has no business dictating to platforms what opinions they must host. The court rightly rejects the idea that lawmakers have more authority over speech online than they do offline. That’s a big win for free speech and a free internet.〞
    thefire.org/news/fire-statemen

    #1A #freeExpression #internet #Section230 #law #SCOTUS #Texas #Florida #NetChoice #platforms

  10. Great to see this Washington Post piece from @willoremus that lines up with what we published yesterday in our @internetsociety response to the #NetChoice decision - that the Supreme Court upheld the right to content moderation: internetsociety.org/blog/2024/

    Please give his newsletter a read!

    From: @willoremus
    mastodon.social/@willoremus/11

  11. 📢💻 CDT experts, including FX Director Kate Ruane and VP of Policy Samir Jain will be analyzing implications of this ruling today. Read the full #SupremeCourt decision here: supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pd #SCOTUS #Netchoice

  12. 🚨 Breaking News: In a 9-0 decision in #NetChoice v. Moody & NetChoice v. Paxton, #SCOTUS sent the Texas & Florida social media laws back to the lower courts, but Justice Kagan’s majority opinion is a win for free expression 👇

  13. Knight Institute comments on Supreme Court ruling in #NetChoice cases involving Florida and Texas social media laws. See our statement on today’s decision from @jameeljaffer below. knightcolumbia.org/content/kni

  14. Not a lawyer but this seems to be saying that content moderation isn’t censorship because platforms have 1A rights, too. Also seems to say that labeling is not censorship. Gosh. How could the Twitter Files have gotten this so wrong? #NetChoice

    “A serious misunderstanding of First Amendment precedent and principle…”

  15. Major slapdown of Fifth Circuit in #Netchoice cases:

    "But it is necessary to say more about how the First Amendment relates to the laws’ content-moderation provisions, to ensure that the facial analysis proceeds on the right path in the courts below. That need is especially stark for the Fifth Circuit."

    #law #lawFedi #lawProf #FirstAmendment #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt

  16. The court has issued its ruling in #NetChoice v. #Paxton & #Moody V. NetChoice, blocking both the Florida and Texas social media laws while litigation continues in lower courts. Here is the ruling.

    #SCOTUS #law
    supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pd

  17. Today is the FINAL DAY of US Supreme Court decisions.

    In 10 minutes (10am US ET), as in previous weeks, I'll be:

    - Refreshing supremecourt.gov/opinions/slip

    - Watching the SCOTUSblog live blog: scotusblog.com/2024/07/announc

    - Watching Katie Barlow's livestream on TikTok: tiktok.com/@scotusblog

    There are only 3 decisions left - NetChoice (my personal focus), an administrative case, and President Trump immunity - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_

    #SCOTUS #USSupremeCourt #SupremeCourt #NetChoice

  18. 🚨 - 35 minutes until 🍿 time with the US Supreme Court... like yesterday and the day before, I'll be:

    - Refreshing supremecourt.gov/opinions/slip

    - Watching the SCOTUSblog live blog: scotusblog.com/2024/06/announc

    - Watching Katie Barlow's livestream on TikTok: tiktok.com/@scotusblog

    As has been the case all along, I'm just hanging here waiting for the #NetChoice cases, since the Internet Society filed an amicus brief: internetsociety.org/blog/2023/

    But...

    1/2

    #SCOTUS #USSupremeCourt #SupremeCourt

  19. If you are a journalist and IF the US Supreme Court announces a decision in #NetChoice cases today, please feel free to message me if you want comments on the decision.

    A colleague and I have a perspective: internetsociety.org/blog/2023/

    (And if not today, Monday!)

    #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #USSupremeCourt

  20. "Without some form of moderation, online communities die."

    Laws in the states of Texas and Florida could affect how we all interact with the Internet. They seek to eliminate or strictly limit a platform’s ability to moderate content.

    Good for trolls, bad for the rest of us.

    Today we filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate these laws ⬇️

    internetsociety.org/blog/2023/

    #MoodyvNetChoice #NetChoicevPaxton #NetChoice #amicus #amicusbrief #Internet #SupremeCourt