Last week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee had a hearing all about Section 230, in which they didn’t even attempt to find a witness pointing out its benefits. Among the many organizations that could have provided that vital perspective is the Wikimedia Foundation (as seen in three excellent posts on Medium), and this week we’re joined by Rebecca MacKinnon, Wikimedia’s VP of Global Advocacy and long-time open internet defender, to talk about why the hearing was bad and Section 230 is very, very important.
Activity tagged "law"
Verdict against Terraform Labs and Do Kwon, responsible for the Terra/Luna algostablecoin collapse in May 2022.
Verdict in SEC v. Terraform Labs
"The Monkey Fraud": An interview with Ryder Ripps
25 years for Sam Bankman-Fried
Sam Bankman-Fried has just been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
I'll be doing a livestream tonight at 6pm Eastern to go deep into the arguments that will be presented in Sam Bankman-Fried's sentencing tomorrow and answer any questions you might have
Sam Bankman-Fried has filed five more letters of support, and from reading them it seems that somehow Mukasey Young is worried they hadn't emphasized enough that Bankman-Fried is vegan
Another two are from parents of autistic children, and one of them suggests that perhaps "he did not fully understand the scope of what was going on and did not have malicious intent".