Sentences with phrase «for cracking down»

The company slowed the promotion of Bitcoin after spinoff from eBay and was recently in the news for cracking down accounts that use Bitcoins, DISH Network started accepting Bitcoins in 2014, in partnership with Coinbase, as a payment for content services.

Instead, Facebook has used Cambridge Analytica as an example of abuse it's trying to combat, and as a justification for cracking down on developers both malicious and benign around the world.

Mead made her comments Wednesday during a panel discussion at the Content Protection Summit, a Los Angeles - based industry conference devoted to discussing best practices for cracking down on piracy.

Witness the fate of Ann Widdecombe's plan for cracking down on cannabis: it didn't make it through the Conservative conference.

Turkey's media - skeptic leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has gained notoriety for cracking down on his country's press core, has hailed Trump for putting CNN's Jim Acosta «in his place.»

The DN's Juan Gonzalez praises Schneiderman for cracking down on government contractors who bilk their workers.

Ms. Gillibrand's potential problems stem from a number of positions she held while in the House, including her support of gun rights and for cracking down on so - called sanctuary cities like New York that do not enforce all immigration laws.

Immigrant and cycling advocates say Mayor Bill de Blasio's revised policy for cracking down on e-bikes could go further in protecting immigrant delivery workers from interactions with the police.

Instead, Facebook has used Cambridge Analytica as an example of abuse it's trying to combat, and as a justification for cracking down on developers both malicious and benign around the world.

But Mr. Gensler soon developed a reputation for cracking down on Wall Street during his time at the agency.

Every company I've worked for has had a different approach for cracking down on employees.

Candidate Hillary now talks up the need for criminal justice reform to undo the 1994 crime bill her husband championed; decries the wages on American workers of NAFTA and subsequent free - trade deals he ushered in; and calls for cracking down on a financial sector he helped deregulate.

Not exact matches

With Erdogan cracking down on thousands of people in the judiciary, education, military, and civil service after last weekend's failed coup, a lawmaker from the main opposition party warned that the state of emergency created «a way of ruling that paves the way for abuse».

The Financial Stability Board, a global watchdog that runs financial regulation for G - 20 economies, took a cautious tone in responding to calls from some countries to crack down on digital currencies.

The reason for this decision is the same as it is for the New York Times or any other publisher that is trying to crack down on ad blocking: Facebook is fundamentally a media company at its core, in the sense that it relies on advertising as its only revenue source.

«And while hurtful today, the fact that regulators are cracking down will be good for the long run.»

Amazon is trying to crack down on this, and it is a wise decision for business, because nobody wants to feel as if they are being duped or misled.

Tree — who said the policy change restored a price support for growers by reintroducing a «federal risk premium» — told Business Insider that while consumers in states were marijuana was legal were probably used to a high - quality and tested product, he suspected cracking down on legal marijuana production and sales would incentivize trafficking of lower - quality marijuana to states where the drug is still illegal.

Some Chinese firms may be under scrutiny for acquisitions, but China isn't cracking down on foreign investments, the director general of the ICC - NDRC said

A team of researchers at UCI had been experimenting with nanowires for potential use in batteries, but found that over time the thin, fragile wires would break down and crack after too many charging cycles.

Multinational companies can expect the European Commission to press on with a crack down on sweetheart tax deals after handing Apple a breathtaking demand for 13 billion euros, officials and experts said on Wednesday.

Beijing has been pushing for greater domestic spending, cracking down on shopping agents known as «daigou» bringing products into China from overseas, and cutting high tax rates on imported luxury goods sold in the country.

That's why statements like, we're «cracking down on abuse... strengthening our policies, and making it easier for people,» as we see in their press release, don't do enough for us.

Just ahead of the Chinese New Year celebrations last month for instance, the Chinese authorities cracked down on «gift giving.»

Advocates for kratom tend to argue that the FDA is protecting big pharmaceutical interests — or at the very least isn't keeping an open mind — by cracking down on the product.

Lots of things exist for a while unbothered by the law until someone cracks down, whether it's a certain drug, or, for example, people using bitcoin for illegal purposes.

Sessions, a longtime opponent of marijuana, has hinted at initiating a federal crack down on state - legal marijuana businesses for the better part of a year.

As the FTC cracks down on non-compliant businesses, understanding the importance of children's online privacy and protection is even more important for small businesses.

At a CNBC / Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha conference, Dimon argued that governments will eventually crack down on digital currencies because cryptocurrency is being used for illicit purposes.

Apparently, they're filling in for their Chinese counterparts, who aren't feeling particularly chipper this year, with the economy there slowing and Beijing cracking down on lavish gifts to corrupt officials.

During the SXSW tech conference in March, Khan read out racist tweets about himself in a plea for social media firms to crack down on hate speech.

A previous patent application published in November 2016 details how Facebook could crack down on fake goods being sold on its platform by scanning images for brands.

Duarte pointed to her group's efforts to get Facebook to crack down on affinity targeting in ads, for example, routing ads related to homebuying away from minority groups — a social media ad version of the unfair mortgage and real estate industry practices that made homebuying for African Americans difficult for much of the 20th century.

He stood up to greedy bankers, chastised corporations for sitting on piles of cash rather than investing, cracked wise with the media, and even managed to name - drop Down With Webster, a Canadian rap - rock group of questionable talent, without damaging his cred.

British MPs have blasted Google, Facebook and Twitter for their lack of efforts in cracking down on abuse and hate speech, while Germany is considering big penalties if they don't do something about it.

As tight lending standards continue to lock many would - be buyers out of the market, one company plans to crack open the door to homeownership by providing crowdfunded down payment assistance from investors in exchange for a slice of a buyer's home equity.

YouTube has vowed to crack down on videos that exploit children and to impose tighter filters for content that requires age restrictions.

Some municipalities have long appealed for Airbnb data to help them crack down on illegal operators of large blocks of rooms, for instance.

Uber has been using its self - driving cars in San Francisco for months, but only formally started picking up passengers on Wednesday, and that's when the DMV decided to crack down.

In a letter sent to Yahoo on Thursday, the investment firm Starboard Value argued that the reason for spinning off the Alibaba stake — avoiding taxes while raising money for shareholders — appeared to have evaporated after questions arose over whether the Internal Revenue Service would crack down on such transactions.

It eliminates the tax credit for transit riders effective in June, imposes modest price hikes for alcohol and cracks down to ensure ride - sharing services such as Uber charge passengers the GST.

Since regulatory changes have cracked down on other bank moneymakers like overdraft and interchange fees, financial institutions are looking for new revenue streams.

As mainstream channels crack down on blockchain, having a marketing channel that is resilient to such events is essential for any projects looking to launch within the sector.

For example, France cracked down on all things crypto related due to a combination of fear and poor information.

They could then, perhaps, collectively decide to crack down on China with coordinated tariffs, something the WTO has proven incapable of providing a forum for.

Zients noted on the Tuesday afternoon call that a little over a year ago President Barack Obama «called for action to crack down on conflicts of interest in retirement advice, which costs American families billions of dollars every year.»

«These are all growing pains,» said SJ Oh, a Hong Kong - based trader at Octagon Strategy Ltd. «And while hurtful today, the fact that regulators are cracking down will be good for the long run.»

Chinese state cryptocurrency to feature negative interest rates: The People's Bank of China (PBOC) has been working on a possible state cryptocurrency for some time, while cracking down on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum.

Google in 2012 announced that it would crack down on low quality exact match domains (EMD) for websites that want to rank primarily on the merits of their domains.

«Congress ought to spend its time addressing the student loan crisis, cracking down on serial lawbreakers like Wells Fargo, and ensuring companies like Equifax pay a meaningful price for massive data breeches — not deregulating the financial services industry,» said Lisa Donner, executive director, Americans for Financial Reform.