Mastodon is really starting to build a solid #News #USPolitics and #Legal analysis sector. Some who've been missing for a while are back, and others who've been here the whole time are in full stride:

Good follows: @emptywheel, @Teri_Kanefield, @wendysiegelman, @GottaLaff, @pbump, @dangillmor, @taylorlorenz, @w7voa, @chrisgeidner, @QasimRashid, @heidilifeldman, @rbreich, @lawfare, @maxkennerly, @fulelo, @marcelias, @uspolitics, @ProPublica, @icymi_law

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Google wants to track you - no matter what. Now it is threatening to take down Invidious, a popular platform on which you can watch YouTube videos without being tracked!

https://tutanota.com/blog/google-youtube-invidious-privacy-alternative

#google #business #data #legal #privacy #opensource #foss

If you voted "step down as CEO" in Elon Musk's phony poll, you did something wrong.

His motivation to buy #birdsite was not to run it, but to implement his version of #freespeech. Passing the mantle now means:

* Return to being a user
* Have someone else to pull the potatoes out of the fire
* Transfer #legal responsibility to that someone
* Stop the main drive for #twittermigration
* Recover biz cred
* Being the owner, still keep #twitter as a personal mouthpiece!

In short: he gets it all.

💡 Idea: we need a privilege similar to attorney-client privilege, but between techies and people they support.

Journalists, refugees, people at-risk and from marginalized groups, and we all, really, need to *know* that tech people supporting them cannot be legally forced to disclose the (often very personal or sensitive) data they gain access to while providing tech support.

Data that is shared with them in confidence, and which is often necessary to render tech help at all.

#InfoSec #Legal

Welcome to all #Fediverse newcomers! 👋

Hopefully, we'll see more themed servers and communities too!

🌌 Some recent additions to the network (1/2):

• https://fediverse.co.za - South #Africa

• https://fedisabled.social - for all disabled people

• https://recht.social - focus on #legal topics

• https://sciencemastodon.com - for #science journalists and scientists

• https://dju.social - German #journalists union

#fediworld

#legal #humor #prosandcons

I'm trying again because the previous link didn't copy correctly. Yes, it’s odd to post a lawsuit filing. But if this works, you can flip to page 6 in the filing to see how a comic book store is explaining the case in comic form.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u4a6hw5DJZQeTpD4oiqTXPo5ixMwqPdz/view

And it’s nice and really explains the case.

#houston #thirdplanet #comic #comics #lawsuit #legal