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How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses(pluralistic.net)
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Tell the CA Governor to Protect Net Neutrality, Affordability, and Public Safety(eff.org)
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Administrative Subpoena Powers and an Outdated Fourth Amendment Doctrine(brennancenter.org)
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Trump Told Supporters to "Cheat Like Hell." NYT Chose Quote: "Tired of Politics"(techdirt.com)
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America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster(lawfaremedia.org)
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Laundering Federal Election Interference in the Midterms(lawfaremedia.org)
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Elon Musk threatens to sue over Gibney documentary's "space lasers" claim(npr.org)
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The High Crime of "LMAO": How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance as a Joke(eff.org)
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Uber Guests Aren't Bound by Uber's TOS–Walker vs. Uber(blog.ericgoldman.org)
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by hn_acker 4d ago
You're right in that, setting aside future laws which might build off of the California Digital Age Assurance Act, the text of the law is compatible with privacy because adults or children can lie about the age info, perhaps with no le
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by hn_acker 4d ago
Digital "theaters" do not have the same limitations as physical theaters. The metadata can mark the page as R but include an additional indication that a PG filtered version of the page is available, via a different URL or a websi
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by hn_acker 4d ago
> While this effort has largely failed, applying "just cause" protections to these workers is the sort of workplace protection that usually attaches to more traditional employees. In other words, what progressives have not been
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Gov Newsom Signs Student-Backed Digital Literacy Bills Alongside Misguided Bans(eff.org)
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by hn_acker 5d ago
The full title is: > Governor Newsom Signs Student-Backed Digital Literacy Bills Alongside Misguided Bans
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Cold TAKE: Amazon's New Encryption Method Still Doesn't Deliver Real Privacy(eff.org)
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by hn_acker 5d ago
Gift link [1]. But now the New York Times puts a login wall on gift links, so if you can't bypass it somehow I got the gift link from a related (not a substitute) article [2]. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09&#x
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Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened(nytimes.com)
3 points by hn_acker 5d ago|1 comments
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Inefficiency is bad, actually(pluralistic.net)
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by hn_acker 5d ago
The California Digital Age Assurance Act forces operating systems to collect age info. Adults cannot choose to withold both their own age info and the age info of their children. Older children in abusive parental situations cannot both get
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by hn_acker 5d ago
> the article author seems not to mind the controls if they are on manufactured gore or porn. From what I've read of her blog, my interpretation is that Heather Burns opposes all government-mandated age verification (which most gove
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by hn_acker 5d ago
There's a major difference in who imposes the age gate. The parent, for their own children, or the website, for all children and adults. (In some cases, both types are wrong to use.)
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EPA to Loosen Methane Rules, Boosting Pollution from Oil and Gas Wells(propublica.org)
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by hn_acker 6d ago
TFA does not suggest malicious intent on the part of USPS. When government bodies lower in the hierarchy receive foreseeably impractical (or malicious) orders from above, even a good faith effort to implement them will result in chaos.
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We All Deserve a Better Internet, Not a Smaller One(eff.org)
9 points by hn_acker 6d ago|1 comments
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Lawmakers Ask To Blacklist Appin, A Hack-For-Hire Firm Censoring Journalists(techdirt.com)
2 points by hn_acker 6d ago|1 comments
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by hn_acker 6d ago
The original title is: > Lawmakers Ask Lutnick To Blacklist Appin, The Hack-For-Hire Firm That Threatens Almost Anyone Who Prints Its Name
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The Global Data Center Boom Is a Gift to Spies(lawfaremedia.org)
5 points by hn_acker 6d ago|0 comments
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by hn_acker 6d ago
The original title is: > U.S. Postal Service Failed to Properly Handle Some Ballots During This Year’s Primary Elections, Audit Finds
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USPS Failed to Properly Handle Some Primary Election Ballots, Audit Finds(propublica.org)
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by hn_acker 7d ago
> Drew convinced me that we should abolish copyright through his blog[1][2]. I find it very unfortunate that he uses the copyright licenses of the software hosted on SourHut as an argument against LLMs. Abolishing copyright means abolish

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