Dec 3, 2022
Hey everybody, I’m Joe Miller and here’s what’s going on in the world of tech law & policy this week.
The Federal Election Commission has adopted rules to regulate political advertising online.
China cracks down on Tiktok posts about protests over President Xi Jinping’s COVID lockdowns.
The Justice Department considers rules barring companies from using messaging apps.
Musk and Republicans fight Apple over its alleged threats to pull Twitter from its app store.
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In other tech law & policy news …
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved a measure that would allow robots to kill suspects. Advocates say this will have a disparate impact on communities of color.
A group of female truck drivers has filed a discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Facebook, Instagram, and WhatApp’s parent company, Meta. The group alleges that Meta discriminates against them because they say the company shows most ads for trucking jobs to men.
Twitter has lifted its ban on COVID-related mis- and disinformation.