Recent studies have questioned blue hydrogen’s low-carbon bona fides.
California’s gig worker Prop 22 ruled unconstitutional by superior court
In a late Friday night blow to Uber, Lyft and other gig worker-centered companies, a superior court judge ruled that California’s Proposition 22, which was passed in 2020 and designed to overrule the state’s controversial AB-5 law on the employment status of gig workers, violates the state’s constitution. Gig worker bill, AB-5, passes California State […]
A mathematician walks into a bar (of disinformation)
Disinformation, misinformation, infotainment, algowars — if the debates over the future of media the past few decades have meant anything, they’ve at least left a pungent imprint on the English language. There’s been a lot of invective and fear over what social media is doing to us, from our individual psychologies and neurologies to wider […]
China passes data protection law
China has passed a personal data protection law, state media Xinhua reports (via Reuters). The law, called the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), is set to take effect on November 1. It was proposed last year — signalling an intent by China’s communist leaders to crack down on unscrupulous data collection in the commercial sphere […]
Today’s real story: The Facebook monopoly
To the average person, Facebook’s monopoly seems obvious. But obviousness is not an antitrust standard. Monopoly has a clear legal meaning, and thus far Lina Khan’s FTC has failed to meet it.
OnlyFans bans sexually explicit content to appease banks and payment services
Upcoming ban harms sex workers who helped OnlyFans become a big moneymaker.
FTC: Facebook was bad at business, so it “illegally bought or buried” competition
FTC chair Lina Khan cast deciding vote in decision to refile.
Apple photo-scanning plan faces global backlash from 90 rights groups
Groups say iPhone-scanning could harm some children and be used for surveillance.
After helping decimate department stores, Amazon plans to open its own
With smaller, curated stores, company takes a page from Trader Joe’s.
Sacklers say they won’t pay $4.5B settlement if judge rejects immunity deal
Deal lets family “walk away as billionaires with a legal shield for life,” one AG said.