Trump’s TikTok executive order is out - it directs the DOJ to promise app stores and services providers that it won’t enforce the law for 75 more days. And in true incoherent Trump fashion, it then also says the EO is not an enforceable promise here in 3(c). Perfect. www.theverge.com/2025/1/20/24...

And just like that: TikTok is coming back... x.com/TikTokPolicy...

Dr. Milton Mueller argues that the government has not justified the #TikTok ban and that it contradicts US principles of an open digital marketplace.

TikTok might shut down tomorrow. I spoke to Kate Klonick about the Supreme Court ruling, why Trump may be set up to play the hero, and how dumb this all is. www.techpolicy.press/the-dumbest-...

The Internet in #Russia suffered a outage beginning at 14:00 UTC today (5pm in MSK) causing a massive drop in traffic for 30min. The outage was reportedly caused by a glitch in Roskomnadzor's ТСПУ (Technical Measures to Combat Threats) - Russia's centralized censorship system. t.me/vedomosti/56...

It’s looking more likely that SCOTUS will be asked to resolve a circuit split involving Section 230. This week, the federal district court judge presiding over Anderson v. TikTok granted this motion.

Australia drops plans to fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online (Sam McKeith/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

My colleague @arozenshtein.bsky.social on Section 230.

The Amazon has been burning for six days and the current Peruvian administration is doing nothing. Please help me to tag, resend this message.This administration won’t do anything if there is no international pressure

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