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Meta Has Had Enough of Australia's Link Tax Shakedown; Will Not Renew Any Deals
Journalism It appears that Meta is serious about no longer bribing news orgs to keep corrupt...
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FTC to Protect Data of 1.6B People Tracked by Now-Bankrupt Data Broker
Privacy There are two major reasons that the U.S. doesn’t pass an internet-era privacy law or...
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We Can't Have Serious Discussions About Section 230 If People Misrepresent It
Failures At the Supreme Court’s oral arguments about Florida and Texas’ social media content moderation laws,...
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Why Isn't Taxpayer-Funded U.S. Broadband Mapping Data Owned by the Public?
(Mis)Uses of Technology We’ve noted for decades how, despite all the political lip service paid toward...
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Nevada Looks to Temporarily Restrain Meta from Using End-to-End Encryption
Legal Issues There have been plenty of silly lawsuits against tech companies over the last few...
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Rajat Khare denies “participation in any conspiracy to or complicity in murder”
Say That Again Sometimes my “I have not participated in any conspiracy to or complicity in...
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UK Ruling Has Potential to Free Up Public Domain; Museums Might Still Block It
Culture There’s a post on the Creative Commons blog with some important news about copyright (in...
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As Predicted, Judge Dismisses Nearly All of Authors' Lawsuits Against OpenAI
Copyright Can’t say we didn’t warn everyone. Last summer we pointed out that Sarah Silverman and...
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Wired Publishes Screed Against Section 230 That Gets Almost Everything Wrong
Content Moderation What is going on at Wired Magazine? A few years ago, the magazine went...
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Cryptocurrency Operator Sues Journalists Reporting on Lawsuits About Its Scams
Defamation In the fall of 2022 an apparent investor in a cryptocurrency called “Bitcoin Latinum” sued...
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Politicians Are Using Kids as Props to Pass Terrible, Harmful Legislation
Policy Amidst all of the attention paid to last week’s Senate hearing on child safety online,...
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Cable Companies, Automakers Try to Derail FTC, FCC Quest to Kill Misleading Fees
Policy For decades now, airlines, hotels, cable companies, banks and a long list of other companies...
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A Utah Porn Filtering Bill Is Back, and It's Stupid
Policy A pair of conservative Republican lawmakers in the Utah state legislature have introduced legislation that...
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Los Angeles Passes Rule Banning Broadband Deployment Discrimination
Broadband We’ve well documented how giant telecom companies have taken billions of dollars in tax breaks,...
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New Super Secret Surveillance Court Covering Old Super Secret Surveillance Court
Privacy For years now we’ve been covering the big ongoing fights between the US and the...
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Messenger Implosion Shows Journalism Lead by Visionless, Fail-Upward Brunchlords
Journalism Early last year new journalism outlet named “The Messenger” launched to great fanfare. The brainchild...
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FTC - Tech Companies Can't Hide Behind 'Security' to Block Interoperability
Policy One of the things we talk about quite a lot on Techdirt is how the...
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Sorry Appin, We're Not Taking Down Our Article About Your Attempts to Silence
Free Speech Back in December, we wrote about Appin. We were not writing about the reports...
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Automakers Look to Neuter Maine 'Right to Repair' Bill
Policy Last November, Maine residents voted overwhelmingly (83 percent) to pass a new state right to...
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Sen Wyden Reintroduces Legislation That Would Actually Help Be Kids Safer Online
Policy As you’ve likely heard, this morning the Senate did one of its semi-regular hearings in...
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Senator Wyden Letter Confirms NSA Is Buying US Persons' Data from Data Brokers
Privacy Buying domestic data from data brokers is just something the government does all the time....
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Snap Breaks Under Pressure, Supports Dangerous KOSA That Will Put Kids in Danger
Overhype Over and over again, we see politicians browbeat companies until they agree to support terrible...
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HP CEO Makes Up a Whole Lot of Bullshit to Defend Crippling Printers
Say That Again When last we checked in with Hewlett Packard (HP), the company had just...
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Would You Pay a Tenth of a Penny for This Article?
Business Models In our continuing Error 402 series on the monetization of web content, we’ve been...