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Date: 03 Mar 2023 10:38:19 -0500
From: "Thomas Horne" <hornetd.remove-this@remove-this-too.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: "Crab Cakes And Football" And Now Autodialers, "That's
What Maryland Does!"
> by Daniel Blynn
> Maryland Telemarketing Bill Looks to Join Florida in Expansively
> Prohibiting the Use of “Automated Systems for the Selection or
> Dialing of Telephone Numbers”
>
> Steptoe telemarketing litigation partner new guy Dan Blynn here with
> a recent state telemarketing law development out of Maryland-and
> it's not a good one. Specifically, in mid-January 2023, Maryland
> Senate Bill 90, entitled the “Stop the Spam Calls Act of 2023,” was
> introduced. A hearing was held on the bill in the state Senate
> Finance Committee just last week, on February 1, 2023. While
> laudable in its aim, like Florida's and other states’ recent
> telemarketing law amendments before it, the bill only serves to
> inject ambiguity and raise questions regarding what is prohibited.
> If passed, the Stop the Spam Calls Act of 2023 will help feather the
> nests (more) of the plaintiffs' class action bar without offering
> meaningful relief to Maryland residents.
>
> https://www.mondaq.com/article/news/1281352?q=1803232&n=698&tp=2&tlk=2&lk=28
The opposing statement reads like flak talk to me. Of course the
comment on the proposed legislation reads “only serves to inject
ambiguity and raise questions regarding what is prohibited. If passed,
the Stop the Spam Calls Act of 2023 will help feather the nests (more)
of the plaintiffs' class action bar without offering meaningful relief
to Maryland residents,” because the writer doesn't want any meaningful
relief for anyone, as that would offend the profit-above-all-things
god they worship.
Tom
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 12:58:35 -0500
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Federal Judge blocks enforcement of New York's "Online Hate
Speech" law
Yesterday, everyone who wants to speak freely online won a major
victory in federal court. Because of the court’s action, websites and
apps cannot be drafted into the “speech police” of New York Attorney
General Letitia James
On Dec. 1, FIRE challenged a new state law forcing websites and apps
to address online speech that the state subjectively deems “hateful.”
New York’s online hate speech law was passed after last May’s tragic
mass shooting by a white supremacist at a supermarket in Buffalo. In
the suit, FIRE represented constitutional law professor Eugene Volokh
and online platforms Rumble and Locals.
Yesterday, Judge Andrew Carter blocked the law from being
enforced. Judge Carter held that the law “both compels social media
networks to speak about the contours of hate speech and chills the
constitutionally protected speech of social media users.”
https://go.thefire.org/webmail/869921/1475572882/d9fd308004d8099f4711a5d74c525552769ffc82265d6680ac06999668c284d5
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Date: 25 Feb 2023 00:56:58 -0500
From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: After defending false data, Comcast admits another FCC
broadband map mistake
After defending false data, Comcast admits another FCC broadband map
mistake
Comcast could have avoided giving false data to FCC by checking its
own website.
Comcast has fessed up to another mistake on the national broadband map
after previously insisting that false data it gave the Federal
Communications Commission was actually correct.
Our report on February 9 showed that when residents in two Colorado
cities objected to Comcast's coverage claims through the FCC challenge
system, the company disputed those challenges even though it was
impossible to order Comcast Internet service at the challenged
addresses. As we previously wrote, Comcast only admitted to the FCC
that it submitted false data in Arvada, Colorado, one day after we
contacted the company's public relations department.
>
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/comcast-could-have-avoided-giving-false-map-data-to-fcc-by-checking-its-own-website/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/comcast-gave-false-map-data-to-fcc-and-didnt-admit-it-until-ars-got-involved/
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