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Congress drops media bargaining bill amid Facebook, industry blowback
Lawmakers ended what had been an effort to allow media organizations to band together to negotiate revenue sharing deals with tech giants, leaving the provisions out of a massive spending bill amid intense pushback from industry and advocacy groups. The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) was omitted from a bicameral agreement on Congress’s sprawling defense-spending legislation.
Web browsers drop TrustCor Systems, a mysterious company with ties to US military contractor
Mozilla’s Firefox and Microsoft’s Edge said they would stop trusting new certificates from TrustCor Systems that vouched for the legitimacy of sites reached by their users, capping weeks of online arguments among their technology experts, outside researchers and TrustCor, which said it had no ongoing ties of concern.
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Submitted by benton on Wed, 11/30/2022 - 06:27Congressman Donald McEachin (D-VA)
Rep. A. Donald McEachin (D-VA) died Nov 28, just weeks after winning reelection to Congress, his office announced. He was 61. Rep. McEachin had represented Virginia’s 4th District, which stretches from Richmond to the North Carolina line, since 2017. Before that, he had served nine years as a state senator and eight as a delegate. A minister and lawyer, Rep. McEachin was the Democratic nominee for state attorney general in 2001, losing to Republican Jerry Kilgore. State Sen. L.