Facebook Civil Rights VP on Audit and Progress on the Platform blackenterprise.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from blackenterprise.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
White House backs global anti-online extremism effort
Presented by Ligado
With help from Benjamin Din and Leah Nylen
Editor’s Note: Morning Tech is a free version of POLITICO Pro Technology s morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 6 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day’s biggest stories. Call to action:
The U.S. is joining a key anti-online extremism pledge, signaling that the Biden administration will center social media platforms in its efforts to fight terrorism. MT exclusive: A new study commissioned by the National Association of Broadcasters finds that local broadcasters are on the losing end with major tech platforms, as they struggle to find meaningful ways to monetize content.
Officer Glenn Altshuler
The lawsuit states that 28 other officers were involved in the raid, but the plaintiffs haven’t yet identified them.
Montgomery County spokesman Scott Peterson wrote in an email to Bethesda Beat on Thursday that the county can’t comment on the lawsuit “due to pending litigation.”
The Palmas rented out their basement as an apartment to a woman in her 50s in 2019. The woman’s son, David Zelaya, a college student in his 20s, sometimes stayed there, too, according to court documents.
Starting in May 2019, Montgomery County police started investigating Zelaya for possession of firearms and distribution of controlled dangerous substances.
A lawsuit filed by a Montgomery County, Maryland, firefighter claims police improperly raided his home in 2019 while carrying out a no-knock warrant and “terrorized” his family, including his 13-year-old daughter and his wife who was on in-home dialysis treatment and had a catheter in place at the time.
The lawsuit filed by Hernan Palma and his family claims the police wrongly raided their house to arrest the son of a tenant who rented out the basement.
The lawsuit claims that during the no-knock warrant, the police stormed the upstairs part of the family’s home early in the morning of Sept. 13, 2019 and beat Hernan, used excessive force against his wife and daughter, and caused an extreme amount of damage to their home.
Telecom Groups Sue NY Over $15 Low-Income Broadband Law
April 30, 2021
On Friday, numerous telecommunications associations filed a complaint in the Eastern District of New York against New York Attorney General Letitia A. James over a state law that purportedly seeks to regulate the rates and speeds of interstate communications, from which the plaintiffs argued New York is precluded under federal law.
According to the complaint, internet access is generally provided through broadband, which “ ‘transmits data at much higher speeds’ than preexisting technologies, such as dial-up connections provided over local telephone facilities.” Additionally, the plaintiffs noted that broadband is considered “an interstate information service that is subject to a federal regulatory framework, under which a combination of mandatory disclosures, competition, and federal and state enforcement of preexisting laws benefit consumers.” The plaintiffs asserted that the Federal Communications