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What We Know About the Telegram Founder’s Arrest (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 08/28/2024 - 05:28Breaking Up Google Isn’t Nearly Enough
A federal judge recently told us what we already knew: that Google is a monopolist in the Web search market. In his scathing 277-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta noted that Google has an 89.2 percent share of the overall search market and a 94.9 percent share of searches conducted on mobile devices. Fixing the problem will be tricky.
Telegram Turmoil Threatens Dominant Chronicle of the War in Ukraine (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 08/27/2024 - 05:23How Telegram’s Founder Went From Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg to Wanted Man (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 08/27/2024 - 05:23Telegram Becomes Free Speech Flashpoint After Founder’s Arrest (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 08/26/2024 - 06:31The Year of the A.I. Election That Wasn’t (New York Times)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Thu, 08/22/2024 - 10:45How a Law That Shields Big Tech Is Now Being Used Against It
Facebook, X, YouTube and other social media platforms rely on a 1996 law to insulate themselves from legal liability for user posts. The protection from this law, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, is so significant that it has allowed tech companies to flourish. But what if the same law could be used to rein in the power of those social media giants? That idea is at the heart of a lawsuit filed in May against Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.