For many, emojis are already ubiquitous in our daily interactions. Now, they are increasingly finding their way into court cases.
Judges decide cases. Parties come to judges to resolve their disagreements. Some of those disagreements are about matters of fact (“what happened?”), and some of those disagreements are about matters of law (“what should have happened?”). “What happened” is a question about an event that occurred in the past. “What should have happened” is a question about a rule that existed in the past and was established even further in the past.
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A child psychiatrist who altered a first-day-of-school photo he saw on Facebook to make a group of girls appear nude. A U.S. Army soldier accused of creating images depicting children he knew being sexually abused. A software engineer charged with generating hyper-realistic sexually explicit images of children.
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Elon Musk pledged to give victims of Hurricane Helene 30 days worth of free access to his satellite-based Starlink internet service — but the billionaire failed to mention that survivors of the disastrous storm that has claimed the lives of more than 200 people will need to fork over $400 for the system’s hardware. After 30 days, customers who qualify for free access will be automatically moved onto a $120-a-month subscription.
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With Washington lawmakers largely unable or unwilling to pass new tech regulations, states have become the most powerful force in shaping one of the country’s most dynamic sectors over the past three years. As state lawmakers tackle issues such as online safety and artificial intelligence, Kingman has effectively set national policy for a specific and increasingly central part of that story: how much control citizens have over their online data.
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