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Is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers OK?

Last week, the feds shut down the historic Bonneville Lock and Dam in the Columbia River Gorge to the public, and the social media manager for the agency’s Portland district appeared to quickly succumb to cabin fever.

The Father of Siri Has Grown Wary of the Artificial Intelligence He Helped Create

Tom Gruber speaks at TechFestNW in Portland this April.

Portland-Produced Super Bowl Ads Scored Martin Scorsese And Tried to Make Facebook Look Good

Of the many multi-million-dollar marketing ploys to air last night, two were produced by Portland ad agency Wieden & Kennedy.

Meet the Facebook Investor Who Says Digital Platforms Are Destroying Society

“The values of these companies conflict with the Enlightenment values on which this country was founded,” Roger McNamee said in an interview with WW.

Police Investigate a Fireball That Fell From the Sky in Rural Oregon County

Was it a plane? A meteor? An alien UFO?

Sen. Ron Wyden Introduces Bill That Would Jail Tech CEOs Who Lie About Sharing Consumer Data

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today introduced legislation aimed at protecting Americans’ data from being sold by and to corporations.

Why Can’t You Sue Facebook for Hosting Lies About You?

“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” —Communications Decency Act of 1996, Section 230(c)(1)

The Law That Keeps Twitter Free From Lawsuits Was Forged Over Ice Cream

When former Oregonian reporter Jeff Kosseff started examining the history of Section 230 for a book, he found that few people noticed in 1995 what Ron Wyden was building on Capitol Hill.

For Oregon’s Economy, Expansive Protections for the Internet Are a Boon. Less So for Victims of Revenge Porn.

Ron Wyden built the internet because he worried about the northern spotted owl.

Ron Wyden Doesn’t Apologize for Helping Build the Internet—But He’s Interested in Sending Mark Zuckerberg to Prison

Last week, WW asked U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden to justify his role as midwife to the internet. He defended Section 230 as a success, but admitted he was struggling to trim away the web’s most poisonous tendrils.

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