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Online safety's day in court

Upcoming court rulings may significantly overhaul efforts to impose online safety rules on some of the world's biggest companies.
Online safety's day in court
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IT'S MONDAY, AND THIS IS DIGITAL POLITICS. I'm Mark Scott, and this edition marks the one-year anniversary for this newsletter. That's 61 newsletters, roughly 130,000 words and, hopefully, some useful insight into the world of global digital policymaking.

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— The outcome to a series of legal challenges to online safety legislation will be made public in the coming weeks. The results may challenge how these laws are implemented.

— We are starting to see the consequences of what happens when policymakers fail to define what "tech sovereignty" actually means.

— The vast amount of money within the semiconductor industry comes from the design, not manufacture, of high-end microchips.

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