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Eurovision fans rush to defend Mae Muller after she is cruelly trolled by bitter viewers
Fatoumata Diawara: “Music is like a guard to defend myself”
With a new album, inventive serial collaborator Fatoumata Diawara is going deeper than ever on London Ko
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Tom Stoltman “Gave Everything He Had” to Defend World’s Strongest Man Title, Came Up Second
Tom Stoltman entered the 2023 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) with historic aspirations. Should the former two-time reigning champion (2021-2022) have beaten his elite strongman peers in Myrtle Beach, SC, he would have become only the third competitor to win three consecutive WSM titles. Instead, he fell short with a runner-up finish to eventual victor Mitchell Hooper. At the…
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Andrew Jacked Announces Intentions to Defend Texas Pro Title, Qualify for 2023 Olympia
On Apr. 3, 2023, Chinedu Andrew Obiekea, aka “Andrew Jacked,” revealed in an Instagram post that he would compete at this summer’s 2023 Texas Pro. The bodybuilder is the contest’s defending champion in the Men’s Open division. The contest will feature eight separate competitive classes: the Open, 212, Women’s Physique, Figure, Classic Physique, Men’s Physique, Bikini, and Wellness….
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Play the Roguelike Board Game, Repel the Enemy and Defend the Rook on March 16th
UK ready to defend against spy balloons – Rishi Sunak
Supreme Court Allows Reddit Mods To Anonymously Defend Section 230
“Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act famously protects Internet platforms from liability, yet what’s missing from the discussion is that it crucially protects Internet users — everyday people — when they participate in moderation like removing unwanted content from their communities, or users upvoting and downvoting posts,” a Reddit spokesperson told Ars. Reddit argues in the brief that such frivolous lawsuits have been lobbed against Reddit users and the company in the past, and Section 230 protections historically have consistently allowed Reddit users to “quickly and inexpensively” avoid litigation. […]
The Supreme Court will have to weigh whether Reddit’s arguments are valid. To help make its case defending Section 230 immunity protections for recommending content, Reddit received special permission from the Supreme Court to include anonymous comments from Reddit mods in its brief. This, Reddit’s spokesperson notes, is “a significant departure from normal Supreme Court procedure.” The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit defending online privacy, championed the court’s decision to allow moderators to contribute comments anonymously. “We’re happy the Supreme Court recognized the First Amendment rights of Reddit moderators to speak to the court about their concerns,” EFF’s senior staff attorney, Sophia Cope, told Ars. “It is quite understandable why those individuals may be hesitant to identify themselves should they be subject to liability in the future for moderating others’ speech on Reddit.”
“Reddit users that interact with third-party content — including ‘hosting’ content on a sub-Reddit that they manage, or moderating that content — could definitely be open to legal exposure if the Court carves out “recommending’ from Section 230’s protections, or otherwise narrows Section 230’s reach,” Cope told Ars.
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Sam Bankman-Fried launches a Substack to defend himself over FTX’s collapse
Move over, Twitter Spaces, Sam Bankman-Fried has a new platform to opine on about the collapse of his cryptocurrency empire.
The founder and former CEO of failed crypto exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF, launched a newsletter via Substack on Thursday. The first and only post at this time, titled FTX Pre-Mortem Overview, is a rundown of SBF’s version of events that led to the demise of his company.
This post marks the first time Bankman-Fried has spoken out since his arrest in the Bahamas on Dec. 12. SBF is facing multiple criminal charges, ranging from wire fraud to money laundering.
For those who have listened to the multiple audio interviews that Sam Bankman-Fried gave to crypto influencers on Twitter Spaces prior to his arrest, the details in this post will sound quite familiar. SBF continues to claim that he’s unaware of what was going on at his crypto hedge fund, Alameda Research, and the improper transfer and use of customer funds from FTX to Alameda.
The head of Alameda Research at the time was SBF’s ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison, who accepted a plea deal and has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the case against Bankman-Fried.
SBF claims that Alameda Research was a victim of downturns in the market and eventually “Alameda’s contagion spread to FTX.” SBF cites other recently failed crypto firms, like Celsius and Voyager, in an attempt to show that this was an industry-wide issue and not unique to FTX.
Bankman-Fried also continued to criticize FTX’s legal counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell. SBF has maintained that he could have continued to raise liquidity which would have saved FTX from failure and made its customers whole. However, according to the former FTX CEO, Sullivan & Cromwell pressured him to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy instead.
FTX was once one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world. Shortly before its collapse, FTX was valued at $32 billion. In November, reports from Coindesk and independent crypto investigator Mike Burgersburg revealed that FTX’s hedge fund, Alameda Research, appeared to be insolvent. As a result of this news, competing crypto exchange Binance sold off its holdings of FTX’s own crypto token, FTT. FTX customers followed, with billions of dollars being withdrawn from the exchange.
According to the stock website, Unusual Whales, SBF initially launched his Substack with a paid subscription, asking readers for either $8 a month, $80 a year, or $150 for a “founding” yearly subscription. The payment plans have since been removed entirely from SBF’s Substack.
Bankman-Fried is currently out on a $250 million bond, awaiting trial at his parents’ home per the condition of bail.