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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Proposes Big Fines for Tech Companies that Ban Lawmakers

The proposed law includes a 30-day notice to users when their account has been blocked and tech companies may be sued by individuals for violating the law's tenets. Penalties related to interference in elections include a $100,000 daily fine levied against any company that deplatforms political candidates.

It’s Facebook versus India’s Farmers

The tug-of-war between Indian farmers and government over new laws facilitating corporate takeover of the country’s agriculture is getting uglier by the hour and likely to get quite bloody too. And when the blood does flow, it will not only be the hands of Indian corporates that will be drenched in red but also those of global investors backing them.[Read More...]

FBI laments that deplatforming of ‘extremists’ makes it harder to spy on Americans

RT | January 22, 2021 Law enforcement is complaining about social media platforms’ full-frontal assault on American political dissidents’ freedom of speech, crying that removing so-called ‘extremists’ from the internet makes it harder to spy on them. A former FBI profiler recently took to NBC to complain that while Big Tech restricting Americans’ ability to freely communicate […]

Les GAFAM contre Donald Trump : vers un cinquième pouvoir américain ?

Les GAFAM sont-elles devenues suffisamment puissantes pour faire ployer un président américain à leurs genoux ? Le président américain sortant, #DonaldTrump, en a fait les frais la semaine passée. Après s'être fait bannir de Twitter, tour à tour, les différents acteurs du monde de la tech américaine ont écarté Donald Trump de leur plateforme. Comment faut-il interpréter ces décisions privées, émanant de la part des puissances technologiques telles que Amazon, Apple et Google, en ce qui concerne (...)