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September 7, 2018

Federal Court Requires Spanish Language Materials for Puerto Rico Voters Who've Moved to Florida

This is great news https://electionlawblog.org/?p=101022

https://twitter.com/srl/status/1038109978182209539

In my county we have to provide ballots in up to six languages in certain precincts

September 6, 2018

Twitter Bans Alex Jones, Citing Harassing Messages

Source: New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple, Facebook and Google’s YouTube mostly banned Alex Jones, the right-wing provocateur and creator of the conspiracy theorist website Infowars, last month for propagating hate speech. Twitter did not.

On Thursday, though, Twitter said it would permanently suspend Mr. Jones’s account, and the account for Infowars. The social media company said that Mr. Jones had posted new messages within the past 24 hours that violated its policies, which prohibit direct threats of violence and some forms of hate speech but allow deception or misinformation.

“Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope. We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to the accounts’ previous violations,” the company posted on its Safety account.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/technology/twitter-alex-jones-infowars.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

September 6, 2018

DOJ to announce charges against North Koreans for Sony hack, Wannacry attack

Source: abc

The Justice Department is planning to announce charges Thursday against North Korean nationals who U.S. authorities have accused of being behind the massive hack of Sony in 2014 and the Wannacry ransomware attack lack year.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-announce-charges-north-koreans-sony-hack-wannacry/story?id=57643239&cid=social_twitter_abcn

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