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Fox News and Republicans are getting creative with their defenses of Trump accepting foreign dirt (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 06/14/2019 - 11:28President Trump says he won’t fire Kellyanne Conway over Hatch Act violations (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 06/14/2019 - 11:28Analysis: ‘Blah, blah, blah’: This 2-week-old Kellyanne Conway clip looks exceedingly painful today (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 06/13/2019 - 17:05Analysis: What is the Hatch Act, and why did Kellyanne Conway get accused of violating it so egregiously? (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 06/13/2019 - 17:04TV weatherman loses job after speaking out against alleged corporate edicts from Sinclair for ‘code red’ alerts (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 06/13/2019 - 16:45Where 20 years of child online protection law went wrong
Two decades after Congress tried to wall off the worst of the Internet in hopes of protecting the privacy and innocence of children, the ramparts lie in ruins. Many popular online offerings maintain they are “not directed” at children. But the services also don’t ask users how old they are. This tactic, lawyers say, helps the companies sidestep the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), a 1998 law that restricts the tracking and targeting of those younger than 13 but requires “actual knowledge” of a user’s age as a key trigger to enforcement.