Facebook Antitrust
Reveal Chat Holdco et al. filed a federal antitrust class action against Facebook, claiming its acquisition of WhatsApp, Instagram and other competitors violates the Sherman and Clayton acts.
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Pastor Loses Suit Over Gay-Conversion Videos on Vimeo
A federal magistrate threw out a discrimination suit against Vimeo from a California pastor who says he is the product of gay-conversion therapy.
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Federal prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss an information accusing Efraim Jimenez of obstructing a sex trafficking investigation involving Girls Do Porn, but not dismiss the case against his brother, Frederick Jimenez.
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Lithuania Blasted for Turning Blind Eye to Anti-LGBT Facebook Posts
The refusal of Lithuanian authorities to prosecute online threats made against two gay men after a photo of them kissing amounts to a human rights violation, the European Court of Human Rights held Tuesday.
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Federal Lawsuit Challenges Ohio’s Stalking and Harassment Laws
An Ohio woman claimed in a federal lawsuit Monday that the state’s anti-stalking and harassment laws have made her afraid that she will be prosecuted for criticizing government officials online.
Read morePastor Barred Over Gay-Conversion Videos Fights Vimeo
Vimeo bans users from extolling purported gay-conversion therapy, but a pastor who identifies as a “former homosexual” told a federal judge Monday that the video-hosting website shut down his account in bad faith.
Read moreBrothers Plead Not Guilty to Stealing GirlsDoPorn Computer Evidence
Two brothers pleaded not guilty Thursday to interfering in the criminal human trafficking case against online porn purveyor GirlsDoPorn by allegedly stealing computer evidence from the abandoned North San Diego County home of the website’s owner.
Read moreJust a Gigolo?
A woman claims Mark Bernier, CEO of co-defendant VentureMoney, both of San Diego, “has stolen over $2.5 million from numerous women” he met on dating websites, then sold them “worthless securities,” including $550,000 from her, in superior court.
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Facebook Set to Ban Most ‘Deepfake’ Videos
On the eve of a congressional hearing on media manipulation and deception, Facebook said it will remove digitally manipulated videos – commonly called “deepfakes” – from its platform.
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SpaceX Launches Third Batch of Starlink Satellites
SpaceX is set Monday to launch its third batch of 60 mini-satellites into orbit, part of its plans to build a giant constellation of thousands of spacecraft that will form a global broadband internet system.
Read moreWomen Win $13 Million in GirlsDoPorn Fraud Suit
A judge in San Diego vindicated 22 Jane Does on Thursday by awarding them nearly $13 million in damages over the rights to videos they’d sought from adult film purveyor GirlsDoPorn following a monthslong civil fraud trial which garnered international attention.
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Feds Document Search History of Hanukkah Stabbing Suspect
Bringing federal hate crime charges over a machete attack that left five people wounded at a New York rabbi’s home, prosecutors on Monday highlighted anti-Semitic evidence in the suspect’s internet search history.
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Court Rules Turkey Violated Freedoms by Banning Wikipedia
Turkey’s highest court on Thursday ruled in favor of Wikipedia, saying the Turkish government’s two-year ban on the online encyclopedia constitutes a violation of freedom of expression, the state-run news agency reported.
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Back to Pre-Internet Stone Age in Offline Indian Kashmir
In remote Indian Kashmir people have been offline since August, queuing for hours to pay bills or using government “internet kiosks.” As protests rage in other areas of India, it’s something people outside the Himalayan region are also getting a taste of.
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Detroit Tops List of Hard-to-Count Cities in Census
When the U.S. Census Bureau starts counting people next year in Detroit, obstacles are bound to arise: The city has tens of thousands of vacant houses, sparse internet access and high poverty — factors that will make it the toughest community to tally.
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India Unleashes Troops as Protests Mount Over Citizen Bill
Authorities deployed thousands of paramilitaries and blocked mobile internet in northeast India Thursday, and police fired blank rounds at protesters who defied a curfew to demonstrate against anti-Muslim citizenship legislation.
Read morePartisan News Outlets Seek to Fill Void in US ‘News Deserts’
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Open the website of the Kalamazoo Times of Michigan and you will see a smattering of articles
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