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| | www.internetgovernance.org
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| | Today the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling upholding the TikTok ban. The Justices clearly did not understand the full implications of this decision, and admitted as much in the opening paragraphs of the decision: "...we are conscious that the cases before us involve new technologies with transformative capabilities. This challenging new context [...]
| | pxlnv.com
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| | Finally. The government of the United States finally passed a law that would allow it to force the sale of, or ban, software and websites from specific countries of concern. The target is obviously TikTok - it says so right in its text - but crafty lawmakers have tried to add enough caveats and clauses [...]
| | www.masslawblog.com
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| | I've been belatedly reading Chris Miller's Chip War, so I'm particularly attuned to U.S.-China relations around technology. Of course, the topic of Miller's excellent book is advanced semiconductor chips, not social media apps. Nevertheless, the topic now occupying the attention of the Supreme Court and the president elect is the national security threat presented by [...]
| | www.whitehouse.gov
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| By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.