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Washington mdash; The Justice Department proposed a series of recommendations to lawmakers that would take aim at immunity protections enjoyed by internet companies for content created by users, the latest salvo in the Trump administration s battle against the leading online platforms.The department s proposed reforms would make internet companies more responsible for policing illicit content that is posted on their platforms. Tech giants like Facebook, Twitter and Google hav stanley puodelis e been in the crosshairs of the administration, and these recommendations would reduce their immunity under current law.The reforms, which would require an act of Congress, target a portion of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, known as Section 230. The provision grants online platforms immunity from civil liability based on the content posted to the sites by users. The department s recommendations would require online platforms to tighten requirements for policing illicit conten stanley becher t and increase transparency about their moderation policies, including a reassessment of how they moderate content that is perceived to be otherwise objectionable. This reform would focus the broad blanket immunity for content moderation decisions on the core objective of Section 230 mdash; to reduce online content harmful to children mdash; while limiting a platform s ability to remove content arbitrarily or in botella stanley ways inconsistent with its terms or service simply by deeming it objec Rjhw Transcript: Deputy national security adviser Jon Finer on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, Aug. 4, 2024
CUBA....Steve Clemons thinks the Democratic frontrunners are both way too timid on Cuba policy:I asked [Obama advisor Susan] Rice if Obama mdash; who has been the most progressive among the three standing presidential candidates on US-Cuba policy mdash; would at least go back to the status quo during the Bush administration in 2003. Before Bush tightened up the noose on Cuban-American family travel, remittances, and other exchanges, there was quite a bit of non-tourist travel to Cuba mdash; usually for educational and cultural reasons.Rice s response was no. She said that those kinds of ope stanley thermos nings for non-tourist travel would depend on Cuba having fair and free elections , releasing political prisoners, adherence to human rights conventions, and the like.....Hillary Clinton is far more restrictive of course and would maintain a Cold War-hugging stance on Cuba at least until Florida votes were counted mdash; but at least her foreign policy adviser, Lee Feinstein, said that he d be cool with the NY Philharmonic going to Cuba.Read the whole thing. While even some hardcore conservatives are starting to realize that our Cuba policy stanley sverige is ridiculous and counterproductive, our political class remains in thrall to a small group of dead-end exiles who happen to reside in a swing state with lots of electoral votes. Where s the cigar smoker s lobby when you need them stanley thermos mug ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child
Washington mdash; The Justice Department proposed a series of recommendations to lawmakers that would take aim at immunity protections enjoyed by internet companies for content created by users, the latest salvo in the Trump administration s battle against the leading online platforms.The department s proposed reforms would make internet companies more responsible for policing illicit content that is posted on their platforms. Tech giants like Facebook, Twitter and Google hav stanley puodelis e been in the crosshairs of the administration, and these recommendations would reduce their immunity under current law.The reforms, which would require an act of Congress, target a portion of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, known as Section 230. The provision grants online platforms immunity from civil liability based on the content posted to the sites by users. The department s recommendations would require online platforms to tighten requirements for policing illicit conten stanley becher t and increase transparency about their moderation policies, including a reassessment of how they moderate content that is perceived to be otherwise objectionable. This reform would focus the broad blanket immunity for content moderation decisions on the core objective of Section 230 mdash; to reduce online content harmful to children mdash; while limiting a platform s ability to remove content arbitrarily or in botella stanley ways inconsistent with its terms or service simply by deeming it objec Rjhw Transcript: Deputy national security adviser Jon Finer on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, Aug. 4, 2024
CUBA....Steve Clemons thinks the Democratic frontrunners are both way too timid on Cuba policy:I asked [Obama advisor Susan] Rice if Obama mdash; who has been the most progressive among the three standing presidential candidates on US-Cuba policy mdash; would at least go back to the status quo during the Bush administration in 2003. Before Bush tightened up the noose on Cuban-American family travel, remittances, and other exchanges, there was quite a bit of non-tourist travel to Cuba mdash; usually for educational and cultural reasons.Rice s response was no. She said that those kinds of ope stanley thermos nings for non-tourist travel would depend on Cuba having fair and free elections , releasing political prisoners, adherence to human rights conventions, and the like.....Hillary Clinton is far more restrictive of course and would maintain a Cold War-hugging stance on Cuba at least until Florida votes were counted mdash; but at least her foreign policy adviser, Lee Feinstein, said that he d be cool with the NY Philharmonic going to Cuba.Read the whole thing. While even some hardcore conservatives are starting to realize that our Cuba policy stanley sverige is ridiculous and counterproductive, our political class remains in thrall to a small group of dead-end exiles who happen to reside in a swing state with lots of electoral votes. Where s the cigar smoker s lobby when you need them stanley thermos mug ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child
