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Judge Blocks Texas App Store Age Verification Law

Par :BeauHD
23 décembre 2025 à 22:50
A federal judge blocked Texas' app store age-verification law, ruling it likely violates the First Amendment by forcing platforms to gate speech and collect data in an overly broad way. The law was set to go into effect on January 1, 2026. The Verge reports: In an order granting a preliminary injunction on the Texas App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420), Judge Robert Pitman wrote that the statute "is akin to a law that would require every bookstore to verify the age of every customer at the door and, for minors, require parental consent before the child or teen could enter and again when they try to purchase a book." Pitman has not yet ruled on the merits of the case, but his decision to grant the preliminary injunction means he believes its defenders are unlikely to prevail in court. Pitman found that the highest level of scrutiny must be applied to evaluate the law under the First Amendment, which means the state must prove the law is "the least restrictive means of achieving a compelling state interest." The judge found this is not the case and that it wouldn't even survive intermediate scrutiny, because Texas has so far failed to prove that its goals are connected to its methods. Since Texas already has a law requiring age verification for porn sites, Pitman said that "only in the vast minority of applications would SB 2420 have a constitutional application to unprotected speech not addressed by other laws." Though Pitman acknowledged the importance of safeguarding kids online, he added, "the means to achieve that end must be consistent with the First Amendment. However compelling the policy concerns, and however widespread the agreement that the issue must be addressed, the Court remains bound by the rule of law." "The Texas App Store Accountability Act is the first among a series of similar state laws to face a legal challenge, making the ruling especially significant, as Congress considers a version of the statute," notes The Verge. "The laws, versions of which also passed in Utah and Louisiana, aim to impose age verification standards at the app store level, making companies like Apple and Google responsible for transmitting signals about users' ages to app developers to block users from age-inappropriate experiences." "The state can still appeal the ruling with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has a history of reversing blocks on internet regulations."

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LimeWire Re-Emerges In Online Rush To Share Pulled '60 Minutes' Segment

Par :BeauHD
23 décembre 2025 à 22:10
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: CBS cannot contain the online spread of a "60 Minutes" segment that its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, tried to block from airing. The episode, "Inside CECOT," featured testimonies from US deportees who were tortured or suffered physical or sexual abuse at a notorious Salvadoran prison, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism. "Welcome to hell," one former inmate was told upon arriving, the segment reported, while also highlighting a clip of Donald Trump praising CECOT and its leadership for "great facilities, very strong facilities, and they don't play games." Weiss controversially pulled the segment on Monday, claiming it could not air in the US because it lacked critical voices, as no Trump officials were interviewed. She claimed that the segment "did not advance the ball" and merely echoed others' reporting, NBC News reported. Her plan was to air the segment when it was "ready," insisting that holding stories "for whatever reason" happens "every day in every newsroom." But Weiss apparently did not realize that the "Inside CECOT" would still stream in Canada, giving the public a chance to view the segment as reporters had intended. Critics accusing CBS of censoring the story quickly shared the segment online Monday after discovering that it was available on the Global TV app. Using a VPN to connect to the app with a Canadian IP address was all it took to override Weiss' block in the US, as 404 Media reported the segment was uploaded to "to a variety of file sharing sites and services, including iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent," including on the recently revived file-sharing service LimeWire. It's currently also available to stream on the Internet Archive, where one reviewer largely summed up the public's response so far, writing, "cannot believe this was pulled, not a dang thing wrong with this segment except it shows truth." "Yo what," joked Reddit user Howzitgoin, highlighting only the word "LimeWire." Another user responded, "man, who knew my nostalgia prof pic would become relevant again, WTF." "Bringing back LimeWire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit," a Bluesky user wrote. "We need a champion against the darkness," a Reddit commenter echoed. "I side with LimeWire."

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Budget : la loi d’urgence adoptée, l’impasse politique demeure

Le Parlement a adopté, mardi 23 décembre, la loi de finances spéciale censée éviter un blocage financier de l’Etat à compter du 1ᵉʳ janvier. Les discussions sur le budget reprendront au début de 2026 avec, toujours, leur lot d’incertitudes.

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Le Sénat, lors du vote du projet de loi spéciale, le 23 décembre 2025.

Entre Joe Sacco et Art Spiegelman, une conversation dessinée sur Gaza

Le père de la BD-reportage, ardent défenseur de la cause palestinienne, et l’auteur de « Maus », album mondialement connu sur l’extermination des juifs d’Europe, exposent leur travail commun autour de la guerre dans la bande de Gaza, à la galerie Martel, à Paris, au bénéfice de l’Unicef.

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Planche de BD « Never Again !… And Again… And Again », réalisée en collaboration par Joe Sacco et Art Spiegelman.

« Combattre l’antisémitisme ne passe pas par une approbation du sionisme » : la réponse d’un collectif de personnalités juives à Eva Illouz

Un groupe d’universitaires, d’artistes et de militants juifs répond, dans une tribune au « Monde », au texte de la sociologue publié le 18 décembre. Ils soulignent l’importance d’opérer « une critique nécessaire du sionisme ».

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Lors d’une cérémonie en hommage aux victimes de l’attentat antisémite de Bondi Beach du 14 décembre, à Sydney, le dimanche 21 décembre 2025.

Affaire Epstein : Donald Trump accusé de viol dans un nouveau document judiciaire

Ni l’âge de la victime ni son identité n’ont été révélés, mais le document judiciaire avance qu’elle aurait un temps été relativement proche de Ghislaine Maxwell, complice du criminel sexuel Jeffrey Epstein.

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Donald Trump et Jeffrey Epstein, dans une photo dévoilée par les démocrates américains le 12 décembre.

Qui était le général Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, le chef d’état-major libyen mort dans un crash d’avion en Turquie ?

PORTRAIT - Le haut gradé militaire libyen, mort ce mardi soir en Turquie, était l’un des hommes forts du gouvernement d’unité nationale (GNU). Il s’était rendu à Ankara pour une visite officielle à l’invitation de son homologue turc.

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Le chef d’état-major libyen Mohammed Ahmed Al-Haddad.

Lockheed Martin et Boeing décrochent des contrats de plusieurs milliards de dollars auprès de Washington

Selon le Pentagone, le contrat de Lockheed Martin concerne des ventes à l’Égypte, à l’Australie, à la Nouvelle-Zélande, à la France, aux Philippines, à la Norvège et à l’Allemagne.

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Le logo de Boeing.
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