Biden Nominates Legacy Entertainment Industry Copyright Enforcer To Be New IP Czar (www.techdirt.com)
r/StallmanWasRight
On Social Media Nazi Bars, Tradeoffs, And The Impossibility Of Content Moderation At Scale (www.techdirt.com)
Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options (www.techdirt.com)
Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn’t Realize He’s Just Become The Nazi Bar (www.techdirt.com)
Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve (www.techdirt.com)
Techdirt Is Now Entirely Without Any Google Ads Or Tracking Code (www.techdirt.com)
Canadian Government Wants To Regulate Social Media Like Broadcast (www.techdirt.com)
Somebody please tell me if anyone involved in writing this thing has any understanding of how any online services work?
What If Cambridge Analytica Owned Its Own Social Network? CA Backer Rebekah Mercer Admits She's A Co-Founder Of Parler (www.techdirt.com)
Twitter About To Be Hit With A ~$250 Million Fine For Using Your Two Factor Authentication Phone Numbers/Emails For Marketing [Tech Dirt] (www.techdirt.com)
Another Billionaire Pushes A Bid For TikTok, But To Decentralize It (www.techdirt.com)
If you’re a fan of chaos, well, the TikTok ban situation is providing plenty of chaos to follow. Ever since the US government made it clear it was seriously going to move forward with the obviously unconstitutional and counterproductive plan to force ByteDance to divest from TikTok or have the app effectively banned from the...
Pablo Escobar’s Brother Now Also Fails To Get EU Trademark On His Brother’s Name (www.techdirt.com)
oberto Escobar appears to want to keep banging his head against this particular brick wall for some reason. Roberto, brother to infamous drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, has been trying to assert trademark and other rights to his brother’s name for years now. It started in Columbia, in which the country flat out refused to grant...
Head Of Federal Prosecutors’ Association Latest To Ask For Broken Encryption (www.techdirt.com)
After hearing consecutive FBI directors (James Comey, Chris Wray) drone on and on about how device and communication encryption are nudging us ever closer to the criminal apocalypse, it’s kin…
UK Military Censors Dismayed US Tech Companies Won’t Do More Censoring (www.techdirt.com)
Like highway patrol officers bitching about the fact they couldn’t talk a driver into a voluntary search, a British censorship board is complaining about the fact they can’t get US comp…
Data Broker That Trafficked In Abortion Clinic Location Data Also Helps The Air Force With ‘Targeting’ (www.techdirt.com)
European Human Rights Courts Rules That Encryption Backdoors Are Illegal Under European Law (www.techdirt.com)
Research Suggests A Large Proportion Of Web Material In Languages Other Than English Is Machine Translations Of Poor Quality Texts (www.techdirt.com)
Colorado journalist says fuck prior restraint, dares court to keep violating the 1st Amendment (www.techdirt.com)
Bulk Suspicion: Typo In Geofence Warrant Created Two-Mile Long Dragnet (www.techdirt.com)
The NY Times Lawsuit Against OpenAI Would Open Up The NY Times To All Sorts Of Lawsuits Should It Win (www.techdirt.com)
Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal: And Generative AI Does The Marketing For Both (www.techdirt.com)
The FTC Is Trying To Get Back Into The Ring With Microsoft Over Activision Deal (www.techdirt.com)
Groq Sends Elon’s ‘Grok’ A Cease & Desist, Though A Funny One (www.techdirt.com)
Pregnant Black Woman In The U.S. The Latest Victim Of Detroit PD Facial Recognition False Positive (www.techdirt.com)
[Misleading Title] - Apple Says It Will Exit The UK Market If Government Passes Update To Investigatory Powers Act - [Remove Facetime/iMessage from that market] (www.techdirt.com)
Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act (www.techdirt.com)
Hello! Someone has referred you to this post because you’ve said something quite wrong about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. I apologize if it feels a bit cold and rude to resp…