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The state law prohibits internet providers from selectively blocking, slowing down or speeding up apps and websites, especially in exchange for special payments from website owners. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a big deal, because California’s law has been described as the strongest in the nation and, often, where California leads, the rest of the country follows. The litigation continues, but in the meantime the state will be able to enforce the legislation. — PolitiTweet.org

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California’s #netneutrality law will be allowed to take effect after a federal judge handed a defeat to broadband industry groups who’ve sued to overturn the law: https://t.co/Ttnzt8lIqp — PolitiTweet.org

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Warner wraps the hearing with another dig at Amazon and says he hopes they'll live up to what's essentially a civic obligation to participate. — PolitiTweet.org

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And SolarWinds's CEO says they've been working on three hypotheses for how the company was first compromised but are still "sifting through terabytes of data" to narrow it down to one. — PolitiTweet.org

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Important tidbit from Mandia: "We still don't know how they broke into SolarWinds, that I'm aware of." This is the gazillion-dollar question. We know supply-chain attacks are dangerous, but the initial access vector remains a mystery in this case. — PolitiTweet.org

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Mandia says the appropriate scope of a potential breach notification law may be tough to determine. https://t.co/fanfWmodPT — PolitiTweet.org

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FireEye's Kevin Mandia says the attackers were only active on his company's systems a few hours at a time on different days. "We weren't a full-time job for the intruders... because they had broken into 60+ other organizations." — PolitiTweet.org

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Smith says his estimate of 1,000 malicious hackers being involved is based on an analysis of the amount of work that likely went into designing each of the attacks and how many of the attacks there were. — PolitiTweet.org

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Smith praises Anne Neuberger -- calling her count of the affected agencies last week "encouraging" and that it indicates "real efforts to consolidate this information" across the USG. — PolitiTweet.org

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SolarWinds obviously has self-interest here but its CEO keeps repeating an important point: Supply chain attacks are not just possible at SolarWinds; they can compromise virtually any software development environment because they target the workflow. — PolitiTweet.org

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To my knowledge this is the first time anyone has publicly fingered the SVR specifically as the culprit. US officials have previously kept it vague, describing an advanced persistent threat actor "likely Russian in origin." — PolitiTweet.org

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Microsoft's Brad Smith says at this point there's "substantial evidence that points to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Agency" as the culprit "and we have found no evidence that leads us anywhere else." — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Rubio similarly takes a swipe at AWS, saying how "apparently they were too busy to discuss that with us today and I hope they'll reconsider that in the future." — PolitiTweet.org

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Oof. Sen Warner dings Amazon Web Services for declining to testify despite an invitation from the committee. — PolitiTweet.org

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This hearing is beginning shortly. Tune in live here: https://t.co/JO7FqiavNM — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dnvolz: This new reporting from @nakashimae adds NASA and the FAA to the list of at least 9 federal agencies hacked by Russia. https://… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Iyengarish: New: I wrote about the various ways in which the internet is fracturing around the world, and how Facebook's deal with Aust… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DamianCollins: You can read my comments here in response to the agreement reached between Facebook and the Australian government on com… — PolitiTweet.org

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As we speak, Tesla shares are down more than 11 percent. — PolitiTweet.org

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The CEO of SolarWinds is about to be grilled by US senators today, in the company's first public accounting to Congress of how a massive breach of government and corporate networks unfolded. Here's what you need to know: https://t.co/ptDIAOfWI4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Reading coverage of the Australia-Facebook “agreement," it seems the main changes to the proposed law just give Facebook more time before having to strike publisher deals (time that it could use to force another “we’re banning news” crisis, perhaps?) https://t.co/jj1nVN9nq0 https://t.co/jOLsDMEIN7 — PolitiTweet.org

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Finally, Cicilline vowed to reintroduce legislation from last Congress that would permit news publishers to negotiate collectively against the tech industry, which he said would address the erosion of local journalism. — PolitiTweet.org

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He adds, without going into specifics, that the legislation may also seek to ban certain other corporate practices completely because breakups may not solve underlying business incentives. “There’s some behavior we need to be prepared to prohibit outright." — PolitiTweet.org

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At an event held by @ILSR, Rep. David Cicilline says to expect new House legislation to rein in Big Tech “very soon” and that it will “absolutely” reflect calls for a Glass-Steagall for online platforms (basically banning Amazon from competing on its own e-commerce site). — PolitiTweet.org

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House Oversight and House Homeland Security committees announce joint hearing this Friday on the SolarWinds breach, following Tuesday’s Senate Intel hearing on the same subject. https://t.co/N9EBvBBsUY — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @socialistdogmom: facebook is obviously working really hard to keep COVID disinformation in check https://t.co/Ozgv8TPtHg — PolitiTweet.org

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Wow, haha — I missed Valve’s scathing response to Apple’s attempt to pull it into the Epic Games lawsuit 🔥🔥🔥… https://t.co/8YB6DOBSWH — PolitiTweet.org

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And here’s what AFP’s @greglemarchand told me when I reached out for independent confirmation. https://t.co/3g8ARCywKc — PolitiTweet.org

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Facebook’s statement: https://t.co/Brw837LlZM — PolitiTweet.org