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Samira Sadeque / The Daily Dot:

Ravelry, a social networking site for knitting with ~829K MAUs, bans all posts supportive of the Trump administration, which it claims supports white supremacy — Ravelry, the leading social networking website for knitting activities, banned posts that are supportive of President Donald Trump and his administration.

More: Ravelry, Business Insider, and Mashable

Facebook: Pearl Fiber Arts

Tweets: @ravelry, @adamholisky, @johnwilson, @ekp, @bryandisagrees, @kimcrayton1, @kurtschlichter, @nicole_cliffe, @scottgreenfield, @gabrielrossman, and @jessesingal

Kim Hart / Axios:

Senators to debut a bipartisan bill that would require data firms like Google to show the types of data collected, its uses, and its assessed value, quarterly — Senators Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) will introduce legislation on Monday to require Facebook, Google …

More: The Hill

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Internet companies that call themselves “platforms” instead of publishers have no special legal protections or obligations under the Communications Decency Act — from the stop-pushing-this-nonsense dept — Alexis Madrigal, over at the Atlantic has a mostly interesting piece recounting …

Tweets: @johnbattelle

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:

Sources: US Cyber Command launched an offensive cyber strike on Thursday that disabled Iranian computer systems used to control rocket and missile launches — President Trump approved an offensive cyber-strike that disabled Iranian computer systems used to control rocket and missile launches …

More: New York Times, Axios, ZDNet, Engadget, Forbes, BBC, Yahoo News, CyberScoop, Associated Press, CNET, The Verge, Associated Press, SecurityWeek, Gizmodo, Axios, Slashdot, Wall Street Journal, and ABC News

Tweets: @profcarroll, @dnvolz, @rgoodlaw, @nytimes, @gossithedog, @cnoanalysis, @cryptoron, @shanvav, @julianbarnes, @jgeltzer, @redsteeze, @mdubowitz, and @colinkahl

Jon Evans / TechCrunch:

Libra may become a global mobile reserve currency for individuals, not institutions, enabling them to receive, save, spend, and exchange a global hard currency — There is so much to write about Libra, and so much which has already been written misses the mark, mostly, I think …

More: Axios, The Guardian, The Guardian, Ethereum World News, Bloomberg, and Hacker Noon. Tweets: @mdudas

JD Alois / Crowdfund Insider:

Algorand raises $60M in an Algo token sale for its proof-of-stake blockchain platform that, it claims, can process and instantly confirm 1K transactions/second — Singapore based Algorand successfully raised $60 million in a dutch auction token sale this week.

More: CoinDesk, The Block, Crypto Briefing, Yahoo Finance, SludgeFeed, TokenPost, and Cointelegraph

Simon Owens / The Business of Content:

Brian McCullough on the Internet History Podcast and Techmeme Ride Home: the start, turning a personal podcast into a business, plans for a Ride Home franchise — In 2005, a computer software engineer named Gabe Rivera launched the site that would eventually become Techmeme.

Tweets: @simonowens

Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times:

Privacy experts worry about how Amazon and Walmart will store and use videos captured by cameras worn by delivery associates during in-home deliveries — The war for the e-commerce shopper is fought on the battlefield of convenience. One-click ordering, same-day delivery …

Tweets: @peterhense, @eff, @latimes, @sidneyfussell, @hilarymkinney, and @latimes

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

PayPal COO Bill Ready, who joined the company in 2013 when it acquired Braintree, is leaving the company at the end of 2019 — PayPal Chief Operating Officer Bill Ready is leaving the company at the end of the year, PayPal announced via a statement issued on Thursday.

More: PayPal, Inc., The Block, Observer, and Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @mdudas

Jordan Novet / CNBC:

Microsoft says Flight Simulator, which will be updated after 13 years and available as part of Xbox Game Pass in 2020, will support third-party content — KEY POINTS — Microsoft says it will support third-party content, but some developers weren't told about the update in advance.

More: Neowin and PC Gamer. Tweets: @jordannovet

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

A look at some egregious cases of counterfeit books sold on Amazon; this year Amazon began listing sales of counterfeit goods as a material risk in SEC filings — SPERRYVILLE, Va. — “The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy” is a medical handbook that recommends the right amount …

Tweets: @penamerican

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

iRobot has acquired Root Robotics, which makes a $199 educational robot that can be programmed to draw, respond to touch and sound, play music, and more — Bedford, Massachusetts-based iRobot, the robotics company perhaps best known for its iconic Roomba autonomous home vacuum cleaners …

More: PR Newswire, The Verge, Harvard University Gazette, Boston Business Journal, Motley Fool, Engadget, ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Robot Report, and IEEE Spectrum

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