Jason Schneiderman is the Senior Online Editor at NPQ.
States that want to keep abortion legal are starting to clean house, eliminating old laws once considered unenforceable. Massachusetts passed the NASTY Women Act as an “an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health,” and Governor Baker has already said he’ll sign.
The judgment in this odd suit brought by nonprofit publicity master PETA was that Naruto the macaque lacks statutory standing to bring a copyright suit.
The FCC vote to tear down the protections that safeguard net neutrality is scheduled for today. Here’s how things stand.
FCC chair Ajit Pai, expressing worry that government is micromanaging the business models of corporations like AT&T, has expressed his intent to eliminate the hard-fought protections of net neutrality.
The initial warrant was sweeping in scope—by the strictest reading, it would have required DreamHost to turn over IP addresses for everyone who had visited the site, potentially identifying 1.3 million people.
The author of that leaked memo against diversity in tech has been fired from Google. However, neither his supporters nor his detractors are fully satisfied with the outcome.
Google’s new VP of diversity underwent a trial by fire this weekend as a leaked internal memo demonstrated the sexism that persists inside the sphere of big tech companies.
The FCC is set to undo the rules of net neutrality. Those who wish to step up and fight for net neutrality can make their public comments known at the FCC page and contribute to organizations like Fight for the Future.
Zuck’s luck when it comes to the distribution of free Internet services continues to run hard, as the satellite needed to advance Facebook’s latest initiative was destroyed.
The FCC and local governments want to promote net neutrality and freer access to broadband services in cities, but did the FCC go too far in preempting state laws?
