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Online Safety Bill’s provisions for “legal but harmful” content described as “censor’s charter”

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:02:28 +0000

The revised Online Safety Bill has just reached the UK parliament and its determination to tackle “legal but harmful” content is making waves.

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ComputerWorldIndependent

Do svidaniya, Kaspersky — goodbye

Credit to Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols| Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Companies and governments have, shall we say, interesting relations. Just ask any Chinese tech company in recent days.  But, while they’re losing billions, companies in war-mongering countries like Russia have an even harder row to hoe. How can Russian companies support Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine?

You may say they can’t, but that just shows you haven’t studied history. When money and ethics are weighed against each other, money usually wins. For example, such American-as-apple-pie-and-baseball companies as General Motors, Ford, Coca-Cola, and IBM supported Nazi Germany during World War II.

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IndependentKrebs

Pro-Ukraine ‘Protestware’ Pushes Antiwar Ads, Geo-Targeted Malware

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 22:33:21 +0000

Researchers are tracking a number of open-source “protestware” projects on GitHub that have recently altered their code to display “Stand with Ukraine” messages for users, or basic facts about the carnage in Ukraine. The group also is tracking several code packages that were recently modified to erase files on computers that appear to be coming from Russian or Belarusian Internet addresses.

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