May 2024 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Social Media Free Speech Issues Are Trending At High Court
by Gunnar Larson 06 May '24

06 May '24

Social Media Free Speech Issues Are Trending At High Court <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1831415?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision examining what constitutes state action on social media can be viewed in conjunction with oral arguments in two other cases to indicate that the court sees a need for more clarity regarding how social media usage implicates the First Amendment, say attorneys at Kean Miller. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1831415?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1831415?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…>

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NY's Citi Suit Imperils Wire Transfer Market, Bank Groups Say
by Gunnar Larson 06 May '24

06 May '24

NY's Citi Suit Imperils Wire Transfer Market, Bank Groups Say <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1833516?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> By Jon Hill Major banking trade groups are backing Citibank NA in its fight against the New York attorney general's lawsuit over the bank's payment fraud protocols, warning that the state's claims seek to change how wire transfers are regulated in a way that could "upend" the marketplace for such services. Brief attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1833516?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1833516?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…>

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Walmart Hit With False Ad Suit Over 'Reef Friendly' Sunscreen
by Gunnar Larson 06 May '24

06 May '24

Walmart Hit With False Ad Suit Over 'Reef Friendly' Sunscreen <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1833633?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> By Henrik Nilsson A consumer hit Walmart Inc. with a proposed class action on Friday in New York federal court accusing the retail giant of falsely labeling its sunscreen as "Reef Friendly," when it actually contains ingredients that are harmful to coral reefs. Complaint attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1833633?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1833633?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…>

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Goldman Settles Decade-Old Metal-Rigging Class Action
by Gunnar Larson 06 May '24

06 May '24

Goldman Settles Decade-Old Metal-Rigging Class Action <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1833597?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> By Bonnie Eslinger Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has settled a decade-old putative class action claiming the investment bank and others conspired to manipulate platinum and palladium market values, according to a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1833597?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1833597?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…>

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Sullivan & Cromwell Creates National Security Practice Group
by Gunnar Larson 05 May '24

05 May '24

Sullivan & Cromwell Creates National Security Practice Group <https://www.law360.com/delaware/articles/1832788?nl_pk=8f2e5a76-bb66-462b-a…> By Tracey Read Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has launched a national security practice to help clients with matters stemming from the increased use of economic sanctions, anti-money laundering laws, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, foreign investment regulations, export controls and import restrictions, the firm said Thursday. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/delaware/articles/1832788?nl_pk=8f2e5a76-bb66-462b-a…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/delaware/articles/1832788?nl_pk=8f2e5a76-bb66-462b-a…>

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Bankrupt NYC Building Owners, Rent-Strikers Settle Claims
by Gunnar Larson 05 May '24

05 May '24

Bankrupt NYC Building Owners, Rent-Strikers Settle Claims <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1830157?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> By Isaac Monterose The bankrupt owners of several Manhattan apartment buildings asked a New York federal bankruptcy court to approve the settlement of the claims of rent-striking tenants, the tenants' debt and a related adversary proceeding. Motion attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1830157?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1830157?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…>

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Women Can't Tie Rogue Fertility Doc To Yale, University Says
by Gunnar Larson 05 May '24

05 May '24

Women Can't Tie Rogue Fertility Doc To Yale, University Says <https://www.law360.com/health/articles/1830038?nl_pk=6422bbc2-a823-4be5-9a9…> By Brian Steele A Connecticut fertility doctor's former patients don't have probable cause to include Yale entities in their claims that he secretly inseminated them with his own sperm, so a state court should deny their prefiling bid for discovery, the university and its healthcare organizations have said. 2 documents attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/health/articles/1830038?nl_pk=6422bbc2-a823-4be5-9a9…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/health/articles/1830038?nl_pk=6422bbc2-a823-4be5-9a9…>

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RJR Gets $12M Judgment Tossed In Tobacco Death Suit
by Gunnar Larson 05 May '24

05 May '24

RJR Gets $12M Judgment Tossed In Tobacco Death Suit <https://www.law360.com/cannabis/articles/1830189?nl_pk=c844ee6a-f80e-4e60-b…> By Mike Curley A Florida appeals panel on Friday threw out a $12 million judgment against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in a wrongful death suit by the wife of a smoker, saying the evidence didn't support the jury's finding in the wife's favor on her conspiracy to fraudulently conceal claim. Opinion attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/cannabis/articles/1830189?nl_pk=c844ee6a-f80e-4e60-b…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/cannabis/articles/1830189?nl_pk=c844ee6a-f80e-4e60-b…>

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True Names anonymity
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 05 May '24

05 May '24

Assuming this is our default position and we all remain broadly opposed to any centralized biometric identity checks. Get it, got it, good? If this is uncontroversial and a policy plank of our "platform" then its clearly under siege. Worldcoin on the Left. Darknets on the Right. But we need not waver. We need not even choose. So long as anarchist diversity of tactics is respected. It is only the dogmatic sectarian of the Left and Right that insist on " My way or the highway! " Dogs bark and the caravan moves on. There remains certain imperishable truths to guide anarchists. War to the knife against any central govt solutions and ditto religion. Then there is our own cypherpunk creed. " We are all about privacy for the pleb and transparency for the plutocrats " We're not a tax-haven! If current trends continue Worldcoin will keep expanding and associated UBI. The Darkness solution will remain a minority report. One thing is certain though. Quantum networking will enable cryptoanarchist identity solutions by default. State of the art key-exchange and next level transaction control. Feel the power! Live the dream! Hopefully as soon as 2027. Some problems never even get resolved. They are replaced by new problems. Just cast your minds back a single decade. How many of us had rich people's problems!? Tl/dr barring some unforseen acute catastrophe we will win. And, come the singularity all our petty problems fall to earth like dew.

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The dangers of the state monopoly on identity
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 05 May '24

05 May '24

All well and good comrades, but why stop there? There exists a grave danger from powers, sought or unsought, from the crypto anarchy, techno industrial complex. Identity matters! Whether we like it or not, the words anarchy and crypto anarchy can be a boogeyman to the general public, and Tim May went along with the term because he liked it but the “cyber liberty” one might be more fitting by his own admission. What happens is with the spread of technology — cheap smartphones as in the case with Africa — more and more people are joining the world economy and getting the means to cross the local boundaries. What would people in Zimbabwe use for money, when their national currency completely collapsed, were it not for the access to technology, and cheap access too? This is cyber liberty. The advance and spread of the blockchain technology gives even more opportunities for people to go translocal and transborder. All that people need is a device, an Internet connection, and a willingness to learn. This is not to say that all three of these are easy to accomplish, but they are a possibility and they are opportunities. While mobile money is just that — a currency, even though a currency that’s convenient and even life-saving to some that also gives a taste of joining the world economy, the blockchain is the next step and the opportunities that come with it are truly fitting for the term “cyber liberty”. The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another… So we are the New " Net State" and we shall continue to be in that capitalist state until we have created the institutions that form some other community. That community identity may be crypto anarchist. Crypto agorist or Cyber Libertarian, or something else again. Holocratic. A Futarchy. In the virtual marketplace for ideas let's "Let a thousand flowers bloom!" Quadratic democracy for the win! Armed with zero knowledge proofs check summing each new ideology becomes trivial. Like checking in on your favourite antistate token. Let a thousand new schools of thought contend! Or run away and hide if that's what they decide. Treat all state-like forms as damage and route around them. Brave Eric Hughes he bravely ran. And in cyber Heaven, I am told, Vitalik stands up to his old man.

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