We wrote about a Republican budget bill provision that would make the FCC sell off spectrum currently allocated to Wi-Fi, and as Public Knowledge notes, it’s still part of the Senate bill that just passed — and is now heading back to the House.
Last week, online age verification violated the First Amendment. This week, it doesn’t.
Meta and Anthropic defended AI training as fair use, but with major caveats.
Thanks to Metafilter for introducing me to The Box. Wearable technology for women will never be the same.
It was either yesterday or today, and I’m feeling almost nostalgic enough to boot up the original game and sneak around the Statue of Liberty while enjoying one of PC gaming’s all-time great soundtracks.
Maybe, argues longtime internet law scholar Danielle Citron, sometimes you shouldn’t. We’ve got a slow holiday Thursday here at The Verge, so it’s time for me to finally read this paper from early June about alternatives to the “parental control model” of children’s privacy online — a topic that’s not going away any time soon.
The parental control model is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It is an empowering façade that leaves parents unable to protect children and undermines the intimate privacy that youth need to thrive. It is bad for parents, children, and parent-child relationships. And it is bad for the pursuit of equality.
The incredibly weird saga of the ordered, then reversed, then passed, then upheld, then ignored, then ignored even harder attempt to ban one of America’s most popular social networks continues — as it will continue until US-China tensions cool down, everyone forgets it ever happened, or the heat death of the universe.
