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Vergecast: Two new Google antirust cases and an AirPods Max review

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In The Vergecast’ s last regular episode of 2020, The Verge ’s Dieter Bohn and Nilay Patel bring on senior reporter Adi Robertson and editor Chris Welch to explain the biggest stories in tech from this past week. In the first half of the show, Adi explains two (!) Further reading: FDA authorizes first COVID-19 vaccine in US.

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SXSW will attempt to hold its popular festival online in 2021. somehow

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Photo by Adi Robertson / The Verge. Organizers said that “SXSW is working with the City of Austin and public health authorities on plans for a physical event in 2021.” SXSW, the annual tech, music, and film meetup held in downtown Austin was canceled earlier this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Vergecast: WWDC predictions and the next threat to Section 230

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Second half of the show, senior reporter Adi Robertson stops by to update us on new policies being proposed in Congress and at tech companies this week, including the Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act and Google’s back-and forth of revoking access to its ads program for websites publishing racist content and conspiracy theories.

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Former eBay security director arrested for harassing journalist with live cockroaches

The Verge

eBay admitted that Wenig made “inappropriate” comments about the newsletter, although “there was no evidence that he knew in advance about or authorized the actions that were later directed toward the blogger and her husband.” FBI Affidavit against eBay employees for harassment by Adi Robertson on Scribd.

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Why Twitter labeled Trump?s tweets as misleading and Facebook didn?t

The Verge

What these cases have in common is that courts keep throwing them out, as Adi Robertson reported this week in The Verge , in a piece that surveys a large handful of recent attempts. It’s not clear that the FCC has the authority to do any of this on the basis of an executive order. Read the Constitution.

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The Boogaloo movement has successfully hijacked social networks to spread

The Verge

In the delightfully dry phrasing of Wikipedia authors, “ 2: Electric Boogaloo became a verbal template appended to a topic as a signal of pejorative parody.”). Adi Robertson / The Verge ). The name derives from the camp classic breakdancing movie Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo.

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Trump’s latest attack on Section 230 is really about censoring speech

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A 2019 report Goodman co-authored for the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business urges transforming Section 230 into “a quid pro quo benefit.” Italy’s competition authority opened an investigation into cloud storage services operated by Apple , Dropbox and Google.