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Twitter appeals France court decision ordering details of hate speech efforts

October 3, 2021 03:20:19 PM

Laywers for Twitter confirmed on Saturday that the social media giant has appealed a Paris court decision ordering it to grant full access to documents detailing its measures to combat online hate speech. The order was rendered on July 6 and required Twitter to provide information on the “material and human means implemented” by it [...]

Regulating Internet Speech in France: A Broken Policy of Enforced Silence

February 6, 2013 02:25:00 PM

Félix Tréguer, La Quadrature du Net

Ninth Circuit dismisses Yahoo! free speech suit

January 12, 2006 07:19:00 PM

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday dismissed a free speech suit by Yahoo! Inc. challenging a $15 million fine imposed on the company five years ago by a French court for...

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WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

Library of Congress created

On April 24, 1800, U.S. President John Adams approved $5,000 to fund the establishment of the U.S. Library of Congress.

Learn more about the history of the U.S. Library of Congress.