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経済産業省は、工場を建設する目的で平成27年（1月～12月期）に1,000平方メートル以上の用地を取得した製造業、ガス業、熱供給業、電気業の事業者を対象に「工場立地動向調査」を実施し、結果を取りまとめました。

4月5日から9日まで、韓国のソウルにおいて、日中韓自由貿易協定(FTA)交渉の第10回交渉会合(局長/局次長会合)が開催されます。

経済産業省は、昨年10月に「活力あふれる『ビンテージ・ソサエティ』の実現に向けた取組に係る研究会」を立ち上げ、検討を重ね、今般報告書をとりまとめました。

交通事故の削減や渋滞緩和、環境負荷低減等の課題解決が期待される協調ITS（※）の実現普及に必要とされる地図データベースの整備や維持・更新のコスト削減に役立つ日本発の国際規格が制定されました。

平成28年3月4日に、東京電力からありました改正電気事業法に基づく会社分割に係る申請について、このたび申請のとおり認可しました。

令和7年4月30日付　総務省人事

　１４回目となる「原発ゼロへのカウントダウンｉｎかわさき」が市民中心の実行委員会の主催で開催された。集会では能登の珠洲原発計画を撤回させて志賀原発の廃炉を求める原告団の北野進団長が「珠洲の原発予定地は地震で地盤が１メートルも隆起した、地震に耐えられない」と訴えた。また国際環境ＮＧＯの事務局長は「廃炉の形すら見えない、原発は滅びゆく恐竜」と表現した。８００人の参加は原発はいらないなどのプラカードを掲げてアピールした。　　　　　ＪＣＪ月刊機関紙「ジャーナリスト」２０２５年４月２５..

【秩父雑穀自由学校】なんだか動物界にも異変が起こっている。4月初め、夜、荒起こしもしていない田んぼ道を通り過ぎるとカエルが鳴いていた。（大野和興）

Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, giving the powerful a dangerous new route to manipulate platforms into removing lawful speech that they simply don't like. President Trump himself has said that he would use the law to censor his critics. The bill passed the Senate in February, and it now heads to the president's desk. 

The takedown provision in TAKE IT DOWN applies to a much broader category of content—potentially any images involving intimate or sexual content—than the narrower NCII definitions found elsewhere in the bill. The takedown provision also lacks critical safeguards against frivolous or bad-faith takedown requests. Services will rely on automated filters, which are infamously blunt tools. They frequently flag legal content, from fair-use commentary to news reporting. The law’s tight time frame requires that apps and websites remove speech within 48 hours, rarely enough time to verify whether the speech is actually illegal. As a result, online service providers, particularly smaller ones, will likely choose to avoid the onerous legal risk by simply depublishing the speech rather than even attempting to verify it.

Congress is using the wrong approach to helping people whose intimate images are shared without their consent. TAKE IT DOWN pressures platforms to actively monitor speech, including speech that is presently encrypted. The law thus presents a huge threat to security and privacy online. While the bill is meant to address a serious problem, good intentions alone are not enough to make good policy. Lawmakers should be strengthening and enforcing existing legal protections for victims, rather than inventing new takedown regimes that are ripe for abuse. 

令和7年春の叙勲

令和7年春の叙勲（消防関係）（令和7年4月29日）

Political Retribution for Telling the Truth Weakens the Entire Infosec Community and Threatens Our Democracy; Letter Remains Open for Further Sign-Ons

SAN FRANCISCO – The Trump Administration must cease its politically motivated investigation of former U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Christopher Krebs, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and dozens hundreds (see update below) of prominent cybersecurity and election security experts urged in an open letter. 

The letter – signed by preeminent names from academia, civil society, and the private sector – notes that security researchers play a vital role in protecting our democracy, securing our elections, and building, testing, and safeguarding government infrastructure. 

“By placing Krebs and SentinelOne in the crosshairs, the President is signaling that cybersecurity professionals whose findings do not align with his narrative risk having their businesses and livelihoods subjected to spurious and retaliatory targeting, the same bullying tactic he has recently used against law firms,” EFF’s letter said. “As members of the cybersecurity profession and information security community, we counter with a strong stand in defense of our professional obligation to report truthful findings, even – and especially – when they do not fit the playbook of the powerful. And we stand with Chris Krebs for doing just that.” 

President Trump appointed Krebs as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in November 2018, and then fired him in November 2020 after Krebs publicly contradicted Trump's false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election. 

Trump issued a presidential memorandum on April 9 directing Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to investigate Krebs, and directing Bondi and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to revoke security clearances held by Krebs and the cybersecurity company for which he worked, SentinelOne.  EFF’s letter urges that both of these actions be reversed immediately. 

“An independent infosec community is fundamental to protecting our democracy, and to the profession itself,” EFF’s letter said. “It is only by allowing us to do our jobs and report truthfully on systems in an impartial and factual way without fear of political retribution that we can hope to secure those systems. We take this responsibility upon ourselves with the collective knowledge that if any one of us is targeted for our work hardening these systems, then we all can be. We must not let that happen. And united, we will not let that happen.” 

EFF also has filed friend-of-the-court briefs supporting four law firms targeted for retribution in Trump’s unconstitutional executive orders. 

For the letter in support of Krebs: https://www.eff.org/document/chris-krebs-support-letter-april-28-2025

To sign onto the letter: https://eff.org/r.uq1r 

Update 04/29/2025: The letter now has over 400 signatures. You can view it here: https://www.eff.org/ChrisKrebsLetter

Contact:  WilliamBudingtonSenior Staff Technologistbill@eff.org

Once again, the Texas legislature is coming after the most common method of safe and effective abortion today—medication abortion.

Senate Bill (S.B.) 2880* seeks to prevent the sale and distribution of abortion pills—but it doesn’t stop there. By restricting access to certain information online, the bill tries to keep people from learning about abortion drugs, or even knowing that they exist.

If passed, S.B. 2880 would make it illegal to “provide information” on how to obtain an abortion-inducing drug. If you exchange e-mails or have an online chat about seeking an abortion, you could violate the bill. If you create a website that shares information about legal abortion services in other states, you could violate the bill. Even your social media posts could put you at risk.

On top of going after online speakers who create and post content themselves, the bill also targets social media platforms, websites, email services, messaging apps, and any other “interactive computer service” simply for hosting or making that content available.

In other words, Texas legislators not only want to make sure no one can start a discussion on these topics, they also want to make sure no one can find one. The goal is to wipe this information from the internet altogether. That creates glaring free-speech issues with this bill and, if passed, the consequences would be dire.

The bill is carefully designed to scare people into silence.

First, S.B. 2880 empowers average citizens to sue anyone that violates the law. An “interactive computer service” can also be sued if it “allows residents of [Texas] to access information or material that aids, abets, assists or facilitates efforts to obtain elective abortions or abortion-inducing drugs.”

So, similar to Texas Senate Bill 8, the bill encourages anyone to file lawsuits against those who merely speak about or provide access to certain information. This is intended to, and will, chill free speech. The looming threat of litigation can be used to silence those who seek to give women truthful information about their reproductive options—potentially putting their health or lives in danger.

Second, S.B. 2880 encourages online intermediaries to take down abortion-related content. For example, if sued under the law, a defendant platform can escape liability by showing that, once discovered, they promptly “block[ed] access to any information . . . that assists or facilitates efforts to obtain elective abortions or abortion-inducing drugs.”

The bill also grants them “absolute and nonwaivable immunity” against claims arising from takedowns, denials of service, or any other “action taken to restrict access to or availability of [this] information.” In other words, if someone sues a social media platform or internet service provider for censorship, they are well-shielded from facing consequences. This further tips the scales in favor of blocking more websites, posts, and users.

In three different provisions of the 43-page bill, the drafters go out of their way to assure us that S.B. 2880 should not be construed to prohibit speech or conduct that’s protected by the First Amendment. But simply stating that the law does not restrict free speech does not make it so. The obvious goal of this bill is to restrict access to information about abortion medications online. It’s hard to imagine what claims could be brought under such a bill that don’t implicate our free speech rights.

The bill’s imposition of civil and criminal liability also conflicts with a federal law that protects online intermediaries’ ability to host user-generated speech, 47 U.S.C. § 230 (“Section 230”), including speech about abortion medication. Although the bill explicitly states that it does not conflict with Section 230, that assurance remains meaningful only so long as Section 230’s protections remain robust. But Congress is currently considering revisions—or even a full repeal of Section 230. Any weakening of Section 230 will create more space for those empowered by this bill to use the courts to pressure intermediaries/platforms to remove information about abortion medication.

Whenever the government tries to restrict our ability to access information, our First Amendment rights are threatened. This is exactly what Texas lawmakers are trying to do with S.B. 2880. Anyone who cares about free speech—regardless of how they feel about reproductive care—should urge lawmakers to oppose this bill and others like it.

*H.B. 5510 is the identical House version of S.B. 2880.

　タレントのトラブルに端を発したフジテレビ問題は、メディア企業の人権意識、男性中心の負の側面をあぶり出し、経営にまで深刻な影響を与える事態を生んだ。３月末に公表された第三者委員会報告書での 指摘を踏まえ、この問題がなぜ起きたのか、なぜ危機対応を誤ったのか、これからどうすべきかを議論し、 テレビが生き残るためには何が必要なのかを考える。 第１部ではテレビ東京出身の田淵俊彦・桜美林大学芸術学群教授がこの問題に関して講演する。第２ 部では、砂川浩慶・立教大学社会学部教授を司会に、田..

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