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Big Tech's Day of Reckoning: What the Meta and Google Verdicts Really Mean

In the span of just 48 hours this week, two separate juries in two different US states delivered verdicts that could reshape the entire social media industry — not because of the dollar amounts involved, but because of what those verdicts legally establish for the first time. On Tuesday, March 24, a jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $375 million for failing to protect children from sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram. Less than 24 hours later, on Wednesday, March 25, a jury in Los Angeles found both Meta and Google (YouTube) liable for engineering addiction in young users — finding them negligent in the design of their platforms and awarding a further $6 million in damages. Two days. Two states. Two juries. Both pointing at the same conclusion: that Big Tech can no longer hide behind the legal shields it has relied on for nearly three decades. This is the story of what happened, why it matters far beyond the headline numbers, and what comes next for the s...
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Great Wall of China -- Sunset

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Inside a sinkhole in the mountainous Xuanen county in central China’s Hubei province.

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Lotus lake, Kangding County, Garzê Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China

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Mt. Genie, Kangding county, Garze Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China

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People who spread Internet rumors in China to be punished

China has vowed to punish those who spread rumors, the Chinese government has long since been authoritarian and tries to keep a clamp on what their citizens watch, listen to and talk about on the internet. In fact in China spreading rumors is punishable by five to 10 days in jail plus a 500 yuan ($80) fine. People use the Twitter-styled micro-blogging site Weibo to chat and share information. After the high-speed rail crash in July, the government lost control of people as they spoke, criticized, analyzed and openly shared what they felt about the whole thing. This has irked the Chinese Government which is now threatening action against people who spread false rumors.  An original post by Sociolatte
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What is Weibo and how does it work

lately there have been some high profile American starts joining the Chinese microblogging site weibo. Weibo.com is a Twitter styled website built in China and catering to all Chinese speaking people. The site already has 140 million  users and growing, akin to a hybrid of Twitter and Facebook is has already become one of the most popular sites in China.  The site is availbale in simplified and traditional Chinese characters. The site also has version catering to users from Malaysia, Hong kong and Taiwan. The growth of the service has now induced the same celebrities that made Twitter popular to now start using Weibo. If all reports are to be believed Emma Watson has joined the service after high-profile star Tam Hanks did. This is a logical thing to do if stars are to reach out to this growing number of fans in Chinese speaking countries. All this coming at a time when Google has launched their Social Networking site and drawing users away from Twitter and Facebook. Some differences ...
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Microsoft to Stay in China, will also look into the fixing any vulnerabilities in IE

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer said that they will stay in China. To see Steve Ballmer talk about it please click the video  link here . However, his hopes for China to produce growing revenue for the company seem to hinge on a thorny issue: a reduction of piracy and  intellectual-property theft . "China ought to be a source of growth," Ballmer said. "Intellectual-property protection in China is very, very bad. Abysmal. ... We're buying a lot of goods from China but the things that U.S. companies can sell -- pharmaceutical products, media, software -- it's all intellectual property and design, and that stuff's not getting paid for in China. It's got to change." http://download. macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/ cabs/flash/swflash.cab# version=9,0,0,0" > CEO Steve Ballmer told CNBC that his company will look into a report that a flaw in Microsoft's Internet software allowed China to launch a cyber attack on  Google's  operations in that cou...
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Google may pull out of china after cyberattacks and will no longer censor results in China

Google has threatened to quit it's China operations citing a massive cyber attack on it's computers that originated there. As a result Google has said that they will no longer censor their search engine and may completely exit altogether.  Google said that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human right activists, but that the attack also targeted 20 other large companies in the finance, technology, media and chemical sectors. In a blog posting  by  David Drummond , the corporate development and chief legal officer, Google said that it had found a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China.” He further went on to say " Second, we have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Based on our investigation to date we believe their attack did not achieve that objective. Only two Gmail accounts appear to ...
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Microsoft offers Twitter-type service in China

Microsoft has launched a twitter-style service in China usings its MSN live service. The new service is called Juku Which is slang for "Cool" or "Gathering". This allows users to post messages within a stipulated 140 character limit. With old messages slowely scrolling along side Users can also see automatic updates of friends messages. "MSN China, the Microsoft joint venture that developed the new product, insisted it is not a micro-blog service. "Juku is a local innovation developed by MSN China ... based on Windows Live Messenger networks," a company representative said in an e-mail." It is reported that the service also allows users to play games and win prizes such as new face icons to post in messages. Users can also upload their profile picture and browse for people they know to add as friends. Windows live messenger is popular in China and this could be a huge effort to win more people to use their instant messanger service. Micro bloggi...
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