reader comments 155 with 91 posters participating Share this story The company behind Cydia, an iPhone app store that launched before Apple’s own App Store, has sued Apple arguing that Apple has monopolized the market for iOS app stores, violating antitrust law in the process. When the iPhone was introduced in 2007, it didn’t have ..
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reader comments 94 with 74 posters participating Share this story Pornhub has been banned from accepting payments over the Visa and MasterCard networks—a serious blow for a site that has come under increasing fire for failing to effectively filter harmful content. “The issue is not pornography but rape,” wrote New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof ..
Enlarge / Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) is the lead sponsor of the Open Courts Act in the House. reader comments 53 with 43 posters participating, including story author Share this story The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Open Courts Act. The bill aims to modernize PACER, the website that provides public access ..
Enlarge / Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are the three largest parts of Facebook’s extremely sprawling empire… for now. reader comments 112 with 66 posters participating Share this story The Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of 47 states attorneys general today filed a pair of long-awaited antitrust suits against Facebook, alleging that the company abused ..
Enlarge / Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, two of the FCC’s three Republicans, talk before the start of a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on August 16, 2018. reader comments 235 with 135 posters participating Share this story The Republican-controlled US Senate today confirmed a Trump nominee to the Federal ..
Enlarge / Workers removing a sign from a drive-through COVID-19 testing site in Orlando, Florida, in October 2020. reader comments 289 with 125 posters participating Share this story Police on Monday raided the Florida home of data scientist Rebekah Jones, who alleged in May that she was fired from her job collating COVID-19 data for ..
Enlarge / Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price was a member of the AAPS, an organization with extreme, unscientific views who keeps being asked to give testimony to Congress. reader comments 184 with 95 posters participating, including story author Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories On Tuesday, the US Senate’s ..
Enlarge / Starlink satellite dish and equipment in the Idaho panhandle’s Coeur d’Alene National Forest. reader comments 140 with 104 posters participating, including story author Share this story SpaceX has been awarded $885.51 million by the Federal Communications Commission to provide Starlink broadband to 642,925 rural homes and businesses in 35 states. The satellite provider was ..
reader comments 99 with 60 posters participating Share this story Paying for adult entertainment may become more challenging in the near future, as both Visa and MasterCard are investigating Pornhub following allegations that the site allows and profits from content depicting rape and child sexual abuse and exploitation. Visa and MasterCard on Sunday each issued ..
reader comments 23 with 17 posters participating Share this story The federal government gathered up visitor logs for some websites in 2019, the Office of Director of National Intelligence disclosed in letters made public this week. And the feds cited authority derived from a provision of the Patriot Act to do it. Director of National ..
