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Negotiators are inching closer to a deal for another temporary cease-fire in Gaza to allow for an exchange of Israelis held hostage by Hamas and Palestinians detained in Israel. Representatives of Israel, the U.S., Egypt and Qatar agreed on the “basic contours” of a deal this past week in Paris, according to White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan. The next stage of negotiations will be held in Qatar. Still, despite U.S. objections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will not call off a planned military offensive in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians are seeking refuge.
The social media companies sued, citing Supreme Court precedent that says state and federal governments cannot force people or businesses to speak. Schruers, who leads the industry trade group, said the state laws interfere with how the companies operate, from their basic policies to editing, deleting or adjusting posts, across all content.
A Tech Love Story: Kara Swisher’s Conversation in the Gaza Decline Talks Inchinch Forward: Supreme Court hears social media censorship case
There has been a partial government shut down before. Lawmakers are supposed to pass laws to funds the government by the end of September. They were stuck renewing their spending plan. The funding for the Agriculture, Transportation and Veterans Affairs is coming to an end. The top four legislators are expected to meet with President Joe Biden tomorrow to negotiate over the next few days.
Last week, Kara Swisher came by the studios and had a lot to say. She’s a conversationalist: she talks of one tech leader she has interviewed and is reminded of another. The result is a complex process of thinking.
Swisher’s memoir Burn Book: A Tech Love Story recounts more than three decades covering the tech industry as a beat reporter, analyst, columnist, podcaster and TV personality. She says she shifted from asking tech leaders what they were thinking to giving her opinion on their business. Today, she’s disillusioned with many of them.
Source: Gaza cease-fire talks inch forward; Supreme Court hears social media censorship case
Making money by changing trash to art: how mountaineers make money from the garbage that goes on Mt. Everest to the craftspeople of the Tharu community
Over the years mountaineers have left a lot of waste in the mountains. Nepal’s Department of Tourism estimates that there are nearly 140,000 tons of waste on Mt. Everest alone. The government began an initiative in 2019 to clean up the mountains. Some of the material collected from the mountains has found its way to indigenous craftswomen of the Tharu community, who are using their traditional skills to transform the garbage into something entirely new.
Take a peek at pictures of how Sunita Kumari Chaudry and her friends change trash to art and learn about their effort to use mountain waste to make money.
The Computer and Communications Industry Association is a trade association for the social media companies involved in the litigation and it says there is nothing more Orwellian than the government trying to dictate what viewpoints are distributed. That is the issue in this case.
The dispute intensified after the violent siege on the U.S. Capitol in 2021, when social media sites booted former President Donald Trump from their platforms, fearing his posts could provoke more unrest.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared that freedom of speech was in danger at the bill signing. There is a movement to silence conservatives on social media. This is not okay and we will not allow it in Texas.
” It’s necessary to have a set of terms and guidelines in place to make sure the community isn’t polluted,” he said. “And that’s everything from posting dog pictures in the cat forum to barbeque in the vegan forum to far more serious things like trying to groom children in a children’s site.”
Why the Social Media Sites of the Rutherford Institute should not be Censored. The First Amendment is So Important: The Supreme Court to See Challenges to Texas, Florida Social Media Laws
The conservative-leaning organization that John has run is called the Rutherford Institute. The big social media sites are the center of people’s lives, which is why they should not be engaging in any censorship, according to the man who filed a friend-of- the-court brief in the cases.
“It’s out there to make people think, so please don’t do it.” “In other words, you can disagree. If someone puts something foolish on, let’s say, Facebook, people should respond immediately and start a debate. Debating is the key, not eliminating.”
Other allies of Texas and Florida argue the sites are merely hosting content, not making editorial judgments that deserve lots of First Amendment protection.
“Everyone, left right or center, should oppose government control of speech,” Szabo said. We know that the person in the White House will not be for a long time. And that’s why the First Amendment is so important and so paramount.”
Are they just like bookstores or newspapers, places that protect the First Amendment and provide a high level of editing and reporting?
The social media giants are relying in part on a 1974 Supreme Court case, Miami Herald v Tornillo. The newspaper in Florida didn’t want to publish op-eds. The high court ruled in the Herald’s favor.
Today, the social media sites said, Florida is trying to make the big social media platforms print every single letter to the editor. They said users and advertisers don’t want that.
Source: Supreme Court to hear challenges to Texas, Florida social media laws
The Social Media Critics of the September 11th Shooter: Insights from Trade Associations, Trade Lobby and the American Civil Liberties Union
The two trade associations — Netchoice and CCIA — are backed by groups across the political spectrum, from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Americans For Prosperity, which is linked to Charles Koch, to the American Civil Liberties Union.
A group of national security experts weighed in as well. The September 11th victim compensation fund was managed by Rupa Bhattacharyya. She now works at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center.
“Social media content moderation plays a really important role in keeping some of the worst of the hate and violence off of the Internet,” she said.
Extremists like the Proud Boys and the Islamic State use social media to promote violence and attract converts. The New Zealand mosque shooter live-streamed his activities, to try to inspire others.
Anti-fraud laws and consumer protection should be included in the regulations of social media platforms. And the current content moderation policies of some of the big sites have real flaws.
Their court papers said threats were made against the justices. Moderators said they delete those things now. But under the state laws, they might face lawsuits for yanking “trolls” who flood their chats with vulgar and racist posts.
