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With FOSTA Already Leading to Censorship, Plaintiffs Are Seeking Reinstatement Of Their Lawsuit Challenging the Law’s Constitutionality Due to an editing error, a draft version of this article was published prematurely. Internet websites and forums are continuing to censor speech with adult content on their platforms to avoid running afoul of the new anti-sex trafficking law FOSTA. The measure’s vague, ambiguous language and stiff criminal and civil penalties are driving constitutionally protected content off the Internet. The consequences of this censorship are devastating for marginalized communities and groups that serve them, especially organizations that provide support and services to victims of trafficking and child abuse, sex workers, and groups and individuals promoting sexual freedom. Fearing that comments, posts, or ads that are sexual in nature will be ensnared by FOSTA, many vulnerable people have gone offline and back to the streets, where they’ve been sexually abus...

Massive Database Leak Gives Us a Window into China’s Digital Surveillance State Last week, security researcher Victor Gevers found and disclosed an exposed database live-tracking the locations of about 2.6 million residents of Xinjiang, China, offering a window into what a digital surveillance state looks like in the 21st century. Xinjiang is China’s largest province, and home to China’s Uighurs, a Turkic minority group. Here, the Chinese government has implemented a testbed police state where an estimated 1 million individuals from these minority groups have been arbitrarily detained . Among the detainees are academics, writers, engineers , and relatives of Uighurs in exile. Many Uighurs abroad worry for their missing family members , who they haven’t heard from for several months and, in some cases, over a year. Although relatively little news gets out of Xinjiang to the rest of the world, we’ve known for over a year that China has been testing facial-recognition track...

Don’t Sacrifice Fair Use to the Bots Three years ago, we warned of a string of dangerous new policy proposals on the horizon . Under these proposals, platforms would be forced to implement copyright bots that sniffed all of the media that users uploaded to them, deleting your uploads with no human review. It’s happening. The European Parliament is weeks away from a vote on Article 13 , which would force most platforms, services, and communities that host user uploads to install filters to block uploads that seem to match materials in a database of copyrighted works. If the filter detected enough similarity between your video and something from the list of copyrighted works, your video would be banned. Hollywood lobbyists have proposed similar measures here in the U.S. When platforms over-rely on automated filters to enforce copyright, users must cater their uploads to those filters. There’s a lot to say about the dangers of Article 13—how it would censor the whole world’s Inter...

I have a confession to make.  I have come to realize that I am size-ist as it relates to data centers. My history in the Cloud & Service Provider space began on the Power side of the world. To me, hyperscale has always been the data center market to me.  The edge opportunity, however, is opening my eyes to my own prejudice, and the panel that I had the chance to see at Edge Congress only enhanced my excitement. Panelists talked about the dramatic spike in data that will need to be handled at the edge, vertical specific edge requirements, and major implications for telco edge . Lastly, they covered the critical success factors in deploying an edge architecture which included a nod to a hyperconverged solution. Edge Congress Panel – A Discussion on Opportunities and Challenges at the Edge The panel featured four experts who are on the front line helping customers implement edge computing solutions every day. They included Paul Morgan, Global Sales for Manufacturing, Auto...

Written by Sue Ellen Stamper My name is Sue Ellen Stamper, I work in the Payroll department in Florence Kentucky and this is our family story. I started with Schneider Electric’s Customer Care Center in 1999. It was in that role that I met my husband Rob. He worked for a local distributor partner and we got to know each other when he contacted our team for support. Our first date was on Valentine’s Day 2003. Since that day our careers took off in different directions but love story kept true. (And we aren’t the only couple who met at Schneider, check out these stories on our blog !)   After the Wedding We were married in June of 2005 and planned to expand our family sooner rather than later. But the plans we were making and what was in store for us were completely different. Very soon after we were married my husband’s youngest son from a prior marriage was tragically taken from us in a traffic accident. That heartbreaking loss would soon be followed by years of failed attemp...