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RT @SchneiderCNN: BREAKING: Supreme Court strikes down New York gun law that restricts people from carrying concealed handguns in public. 6… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @leah_nylen: Klobuchar releases a new letter with 60 small and medium-sized tech co's supporting the self-preferencing antitrust bills.… — PolitiTweet.org

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Very interesting timing of that TikTok announcement in light of this BuzzFeed story: https://t.co/Dpi856twUK https://t.co/Sm2qQOSuyy — PolitiTweet.org

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The FAA announces a longer-term plan to let aviation "safely co-exist" with 5G around airports. Telcos pledged to keep their voluntary limitations in place until July 2023, while airlines will have to retrofit affected planes with new equipment by then. https://t.co/yKycfMgPf3 — PolitiTweet.org

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TikTok announces it’s now storing US user data on Oracle cloud servers and that “100% of US user traffic” is being hosted by Oracle. Backups are still stored on TikTok’s own servers in the US and Singapore for now, but those will eventually be deleted: https://t.co/Jwg0koNhsF — PolitiTweet.org

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Just in: Google CEO Sundar Pichai will be on Capitol Hill meeting with lawmakers next week, two people familiar with the plans tell me, coinciding with a massive, 11th-hour lobbying blitz by Big Tech to thwart passage of a key Senate antitrust bill. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @snlyngaas: New --> I look at the security environment for the midterms, focusing on physical threats to election workers & the potentia… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @donie: "Anyone could just go into the middle of Times Square right now and say anything they want. They can just walk into the middle o… — PolitiTweet.org

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The White House is announcing a new task force on online harassment, particularly the kind directed toward women, that will scrutinize the link between digital hate and real-world violence. https://t.co/d11JXYZ3Cn — PolitiTweet.org

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Looks like the California agency charged with enforcing the state's privacy law is staffing up — some interesting-looking gigs here: https://t.co/UnrcoNpj3g — PolitiTweet.org

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@viaCristiano @leah_nylen @Cat_Zakrzewski @ceciliakang @margarethmcgill At last! https://t.co/wf8hrmDXj9 — PolitiTweet.org

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Periods of technological transition — as in the current shift to voice assistants, cloud services and virtual reality — are some of the most important times for regulators to stay vigilant, Khan said. https://t.co/wf8hrmDXj9 https://t.co/s6VyKAZig1 — PolitiTweet.org

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Khan called a new, bipartisan bill establishing the country's first-ever rights on data privacy "an important step forward" and said whatever the final law looks like, "we stand ready to enforce it." https://t.co/wf8hrmDXj9 — PolitiTweet.org

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In an interview, Khan teased future "significant enforcement actions" as the FTC also considers making new regulations that could limit noncompete clauses and a data-driven "commercial surveillance" industry that's grown up around the pandemic. https://t.co/wf8hrmDXj9 — PolitiTweet.org

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FTC Chair Lina Khan says she's keeping a close eye on Big Tech's expansion into areas such as metaverse, as she argued dominant companies are likeliest to engage in anticompetitive behavior when facing new competitive threats: https://t.co/wf8hrmDXj9 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @haroldfeld: Squee! The debate about common carriage v. public utility is having its 15 seconds of fame! I feel like American fans of cu… — PolitiTweet.org

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@viaCristiano @leah_nylen @Cat_Zakrzewski @ceciliakang @margarethmcgill I’m running a bit behind but mine is still coming! — PolitiTweet.org

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Elon demanding The Data, and Twitter going "ok" and giving him the firehose on full blast, kinda feels like it belongs on r/maliciouscompliance — PolitiTweet.org

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Should social media be regulated like railroads? The Supreme Court may have blocked that from happening for now, but the underlying idea is still very much a live one. Here's what you need to know. https://t.co/tHqo4tcmpL — PolitiTweet.org

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please please make a wild offer to buy youtube — PolitiTweet.org

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Under a new EU policy, Apple and other smartphone makers will soon have to support USB-C as the charging standard for all new devices sold in Europe. Here's what you need to know: https://t.co/2cThK46kKo — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @viaCristiano: Inbox: House E&C will hold a legislative hearing on the new bipartisan, bicameral draft privacy bill next week https://t.… — PolitiTweet.org

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Ratio'd https://t.co/bKfs74f7PH — PolitiTweet.org

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In response to Musk's letter, Twitter says it "has and will continue to cooperatively share information" with him and plans to close the deal at the agreed-upon terms. Full statement: https://t.co/veiuZQTd2s — PolitiTweet.org

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Elon Musk has issued his most direct threat yet to walk away from the Twitter deal, accusing the company of stonewalling him on data about spam bots: https://t.co/6asiBxAa2A — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's a screenshot of that bit: https://t.co/SVWi45I6T1 — PolitiTweet.org

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CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he doesn't intend to replace Sandberg, as he believes it's time for the company's product and business teams to be "more closely integrated." https://t.co/DosTOUqOPs — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: Meta's longtime COO, Sheryl Sandberg, will step down in the fall, she says: https://t.co/6PQeVdzsGl — PolitiTweet.org

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@geoffmanne That's my hunch as well… too bad we didn't get a majority opinion — PolitiTweet.org

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We probably won't know for sure unless/until this case winds up back before the Court on the merits, but it's still interesting to think about. — PolitiTweet.org