Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been talking for months about accomplishing a potentially impossible task: passing bipartisan legislation within the next year that encourages the rapid development of artificial intelligence and mitigates its biggest risks.
The closed-door forum on Capitol Hill included almost two dozen tech executives, tech advocates, civil rights groups and labor leaders. All 100 senators were invited; the public was not.
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Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other companies that are leading the development of artificial intelligence technology have agreed to meet a set of AI safeguards brokered by President Joe Biden’s administration.
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The tech industry appears to have defeated attempts to hold them legally liable for hosting terrorist content on their platform, having today received favorable decisions in two Supreme Court cases, Twitter Inc. v. Taamneh, and Gonzalez v. Google.
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Supreme Court Cases To Watch:
BIDEN’S STUDENT LOAN HANDOUT
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
WORKPLACE SPEECH/LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
BIG TECH & SECTION 230
TAKINGS CLAUSE
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Disclosures brought about by Missouri and Louisiana’s tech First Amendment lawsuit against the federal government reveal that the U.S. State Department actively marketed government-funded online censorship tools to Big Tech companies.
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The US Supreme Court this week examines a quarter-century old law that has protected tech companies from lawsuits and prosecution for content posted by their users, with a chance that the rules governing the internet will no longer stand.
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The proposal will block the collection of real-time information about a user, including GPS location and biometric data. The proposal will also protection from unfair censorship, manipulation of search results and children from various online harms.
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Executives from Facebook and Twitter, including the recently-fired head of trust & safety Vijaya Gadde, held regular meetings with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to discuss censorship on a wide range of topics, including the withdrawal from Afghanistan, coronavirus, and “racial justice,” according to leaked documents.
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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up a case that challenges legal protection for big tech companies over user-generated content that could potentially usher in a new era of moderating freedom of expression on the Internet.
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A federal appeals court upheld a Texas law on Friday that seeks to curb censorship by social media platforms. The ruling, a major victory for Republicans who charge companies like Twitter and Facebook are limiting free speech, is a step in a major legal battle that could end up at the Supreme Court.
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A new version of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is circulating that is worse than the original. It allows mainstream, legacy and left-wing media to form exclusionary media cartels and then empowers them with extraordinary collective-bargaining power to collude with Big Tech companies. The amendments serve only to spell out in greater specificity how to exclude conservative and anti-establishment media from any alleged benefits.
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The Media Research Center has published the results of a study on secondhand censorship — those who are affected by censorship by being denied access to the content they were seeking out. The study found 144 million times that users have been affected by censorship of conservative figures alone — and that astonishing number occurred in just the first three months of 2022.
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A new report published last Thursday tracked more than 600 cases of pro-Biden censorship on Big Tech platforms in two years.
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Counter terrorism organization the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database, formed by some of the biggest big tech companies, like Facebook and Mircosoft, is expanding the types of content they will clamp down on.
Up until now it has targetted graphic images and videos of terrorist activities, mostly involving Islamic terrorist groups.
However, as on next month it plans to add attacker manifestos – often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence.
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