The White House had repeatedly called for revoking Section 230, a law that shields online companies from liability over content posted by users, and has also supported ramping up anti-trust and transparency enforcement on technology companies.
Platforms such as Alphabet's YouTube and Meta Platforms' Facebook have come under fire for years from critics who say the companies have allowed hate speech, lies and violent rhetoric to flourish on their services.
This follows recent changes, which allows alternatives to its billing systems, announced by the technology giant in select markets. The Play Store commission is due to come into effect from October 31 onwards in India.
The “The Merge”, or how the transition is known, was touted as one of the most important events for the cryptocurrency industry worldwide.
Downdetector.com, a website which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including user-submitted errors on its platform showed 40,377 users reporting problems. The actual number of users affected could vary.
Taiwan is home to the world's largest contract chipmaker, TSMC, and is a major producer of semiconductors used in everything from washing machines and cellphones to data centres and fighter jets.
