Новости за 31.01.2024

Statement of Fairplay's Josh Golin after today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis:

"Another hearing, more evasions and deflections from big tech CEOs. If Congress really cares about the families who packed the hearing today holding pictures of their children lost to social media harms, they will move the Kids Online Safety Act. Pointed questions and sound bites won't save lives, but KOSA will. Now that Judiciary Committee members Senators Butler... Читать дальше...

Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a high profile hearing discussing Big Tech companies’ failures related to child safety. Human rights nonprofit Fight for the Future issued the following statement on the hearing, which can be attributed to the group’s director, Evan Greer (she/her):

As Israeli atrocities persist - storming hospitals, forcing evacuations, patronizing a right-wing confab bent on expulsion of Palestinians, defying a Hague verdict denouncing their genocidal designs and targeted assassination in a hospital - critics do what they can to right the wrongs. A group of advocates has issued a War Criminals deck of cards to help "etch into collective memory" those responsible, and a Palestinian restaurant held a massive free Shabbat dinner to "break bread and barriers."... Читать дальше...

A year since the Norfolk Southern train derailment disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, a new analysis of OpenSecrets data by Public Citizen reveals that the company and its subsidiaries spent $2,340,000 lobbying the federal government in 2023 – up 30% from the $1,800,000 it spent the year before. This includes money spent lobbying Congress on issues such as railway safety and railroad staffing requirements.