A slurry of executive orders has led to a massive purging of public health information from the CDC and other federal websites. Thankfully, data-hoarding Redditors have come to the rescue by posting any information they had managed to salvage from these websites. As engineers, if we have the skill set we should follow suit and help with any effort to make this important data accessible to those who need it.
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Is This The End of Section 230?
The debate over social media companies’ right to control the content that users see has reached a tipping point. A bipartisan collection of lawmakers has taken aim at a decades-old law, Section 230, which has provided legal protections as these companies have come to dominate the technology sector.
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