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This is OpenAI and Meta using their leverage over the White House to screw over their competitor.

It’s clear from this post that Anthropic doesn’t believe this is legal, but is complying for the sake of it. Federal law doesn’t generally have broad authorities to send demand let…

This isn’t so heavy handed. The purpose of age signaling is so that a parent can set in one place an age, and then federal privacy protections under COPPA and state protections und…

It’s only enforced by the CA Attorney General, and I’d be surprised to see a threat, let alone a lawsuit, against Linux on this. Not to say this is ideal.

The response to GP is a credit to HN though too.

They are attempting to find the Starlink terminals so they can machine gun protesters without accountability or documentation, not because they have a regulatory issue with SpaceX.…

I appreciate your engagement! > The most compelling reason I've read so far is that because the US sells weapons to Israel, though I think there's some good reasons to sell weapons…

I appreciated your exchange in this subthread about the difference of the U.S.'s involvement versus Iran. However, I want to push back even without drawing that distinction, so I d…

As someone very vocal on Iran, I find these recriminations shallow and generally intended to be punitive about those positions in those others places. By the same precedent, it ope…

There's no single mechanism. Iran's internet is diverse at the edge, and bottlenecked at the international gateway. Censorship, throttling, and (presumably) surveillance occurs at …

This cannot be done by Executive Order anyway.

CFPB was created in part because of the failure of the FTC during the financial crisis. I’d suspect this specific issue would still be more under the remit of FTC, but no need for …

think you mean the FTC.

What are the chances that this is made possible because of the DMA?

The pro-age verification folks have been talking about ZKPs for years now. Here’s one of the legal proponents of the Texas law, and now General Counsel at the FCC, referencing ZKPs…

Gershad — not sure it’s super active but seems like it still has a user base. https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/12/10977296/gershad-app-iran...

Not quite as clear cut. The EO triggers a national emergency under IEEPA, which is the basis of sanctions — so there is a well established legal underpinning. Unclear whether Micro…

Same same. SMEX is based in Lebanon — (S)WANA is an obnoxious term that’s going around for MENA.

This is an April fools joke.

Your general premise is valid, but the specific theory doesn’t fit the relationship between the merchants and the credit card companies. See the fight over the Durbin/Marshall swip…

Great book.

Nice to see this posted. Understated in this is that BND also helped North Dakota avoid the worst of the mortgage crisis, and that the student loan program (combined with decent st…

Louis Rossmann doesn't seem to understand the FTC Act or its rulemaking authorities, especially after Loper Bright. Can't speak for Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, but the reason behin…