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Ontario Declares Third ‘State of Emergency,’ Issues Month-Long Stay-at-Home Order

Premier Doug Ford announced Wednesday that Ontario will enter a state of emergency for the third time, and the entire province will be put under stay-at-home order for four weeks starting Thursday in the government’s effort to stem the spread of COVID-19, the disease the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus causes. The stay-at-home order will […]

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Google, Facebook, Apple Face Scrutiny in UK as New Regulator Launches

Google, Facebook, Apple, and other tech giants are expected to face closer scrutiny in the UK, as a new watchdog launched on Wednesday. The new Digital Markets Unit (DMU), announced last November to give the UK independent regulating powers after Brexit, is a dedicated unit within the the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that aims to curb

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KKK Flyers Spread in Huntington Beach, Prompting Anti-Racism Resolutions

City councilmembers in Huntington Beach, California, have passed two new resolutions against racism after flyers promoting a group called the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) were deposited on lawns in the city over Easter weekend. The flyers showed a white-hooded figure, had the group’s name printed on them, and contained text similar to that on the group’s website regarding its ideology. The flyers also had

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Supreme Court asks Biden Administration to Weigh in on Waterfront Commission Dispute

The Supreme Court directed the Biden administration to share its views on whether New Jersey should be allowed to withdraw from a powerful bi-state commission that monitors corruption at the storied Port of New York-New Jersey, a signal it may soon decide to hear the commission’s appeal from a lower court. The case is Waterfront

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Ending Big Tech Tyranny

Commentary On Monday, Justice Clarence Thomas announced that the Supreme Court soon will have to put an end to big tech tyranny. He cited the “glaring” problem of social media platforms like Facebook and Google wielding unlimited power to censor users whose views they don’t like. These tech giants, he argued, ought to be regulated

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US Starts Study of Allergic Reactions to Moderna, Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccines

A U.S. health agency on Wednesday announced the launch of a study of allergic reactions to two COVID-19 vaccines. The phase two trial will examine whether people who are highly allergic or have a mast cell disorder are at increased risk for an immediate, systemic allergic reaction to the vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. A

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Big Tech Wins at the Supreme Court, Software Entrepreneurs Lose

Commentary In the early days of software, those against patenting software argued that copyright protection would suffice. They got their wish with the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS Bank (pdf) that effectively made software unpatentable. The recent decision in Oracle v. Google (pdf) gave a big win to Google and effectively makes software

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