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Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Art Apart and There Are No Eyes Here So far, we've featured ~THE GREAT GATSBY~ and The Great Gatsby Tabletop Roleplaying Game in this series of posts about the winners of our public dom. 2021-02-27 21:04:34
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The Best Summary Of Australia's News Link Tax / 'Bargaining Code' I've been somewhat amazed at the response to Facebook's decision in Australia to first block news links, in response to a dangerous new law, and the. 2021-02-27 04:46:50
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Content Moderation Case Study: Removing Nigerian Police Protest Content Due To Confusion With COVID Misinfo Rules (2020) Summary: With the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the large social media companies very quickly put in place policies to try to handle . 2021-02-27 00:50:14
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Illinois Lawmaker Proposes Unconstitutional Ban Of 'GTA' In Response To Carjackings If ever there were a stupid, unconstitutional notion that appears to be evergreen, it must certainly be attempts at outright banning games from the . 2021-02-26 19:46:10
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Study Shows California Telcos Are Simply Letting Their Networks Fall Apart On the one hand, it's understandable that US phone companies companies don't want to maintain aging copper phone networks in the wake of sagging usa. 2021-02-26 15:42:56
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Monster Energy Goes After Autobody Shop Because Of It's 'M' Logo And Use Of Green Color For regular readers of Techdirt, Monster Energy is one of those companies that need only appear in the headline of a post before the reader knows th. 2021-02-26 05:02:32
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Another Report Shows US Consumers Don't Get The Broadband Speeds They Pay For Yet another report has shown that US consumers aren't getting the broadband speeds they're paying for. Researchers from broadband deal portal A. 2021-02-25 22:44:22
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How We Created A Virtual Workshop To Help A Group Of Brilliant Thinkers Explore 'Positive' Futures Around AI Having spent two and a half decades writing about innovation, one of the things that's most fascinating to me is how little most people can envision. 2021-02-25 21:03:02
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DRM Screws People Yet Again: Book DRM Data Breach Exposes Reporters' Emails And Passwords I have a few different services that report to me if my email is found in various data breaches, and recently I was notified that multiple email add. 2021-02-25 18:53:39
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Comcast Forced To Back Off Broadband Cap Expansion... Until Next Year Last November, Comcast quietly announced that the company would be expanding its bullshit broadband caps into the Northeast, one of the last Comcast. 2021-02-25 15:30:41
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Supreme Court Rolls Back Another Horrible Qualified Immunity Decision By The Fifth Circuit The Supreme Court has done a lot over the years to shield law enforcement officers from accountability. It has redefined the contours of the qualifi. 2021-02-25 12:43:35
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Stadia Fallout: Nobody Can Address Stadia Games' Bugs Because Google Fired All The Developers More bad news for Stadia. We were just discussing Google's decision to axe its own game development studios. In and of itself, such a move to cut st. 2021-02-25 04:50:27
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Techdirt Podcast Episode 271: Gaming Like It's 1925 We recently announced the winners of our third annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It's 1925. Now, just like last year, we're dedicatin. 2021-02-24 22:49:11
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Appeals Court Rejects New York Police Unions' Attempt To Block Disclosure Of Disciplinary Records A bunch of New York City law enforcement unions have been suing to block the side effects of the repeal of 50-a, an ordinance passed in 1976 that ex. 2021-02-24 21:15:32
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The 2021 Premium Unity Game Developer Certification Bundle From mobile and video game building to monetization, master the best animation development practices across 146 Hours of training on Unity and Blend. 2021-02-24 19:48:32
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California Poised To Defeat Broadband Industry In Scrum Over Net Neutrality You'll recall that after the Trump FCC effectively neutered itself at telecom lobbyist behest in 2017, numerous states jumped in to fill the consume. 2021-02-24 19:48:32
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Yet Another Story Shows How Facebook Bent Over Backwards To Put In Place Different Rules For Conservatives It has become an article of faith among some that the big social media sites engage in "anti-conservative bias" in their moderation practices. When . 2021-02-24 18:34:55
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The DOJ/FCC 'Fix' For The T-Mobile Merger Is Looking More And More Like Theater Economists repeatedly warned that the biggest downside of the $26 billion Sprint T-Mobile merger was the fact that the deal would dramatically reduc. 2021-02-24 16:03:27
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Treasury Oversight Says IRS Should Consider Getting Warrants Before Buying Location Data From Data Brokers Last October, Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren asked the IRS's oversight to take a look at the agency's use of third-party data brokers to ob. 2021-02-24 13:16:28
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Google Disbands Stadia Game Developers And Signals Potential For More Trouble Ahead It's no secret that in the year and a half since Google launched its video game streaming platform, Stadia, things haven't gone particularly well. G. 2021-02-24 04:59:15
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Facebook's Australian News Ban Did Demonstrate The Evil Of Zero Rating People have been very angry at me for pointing out that Facebook's decision to ban links to news down under actually made sense -- even though Faceb. 2021-02-24 00:42:47
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Is Mandated Sideloading The Answer To App Store Deplatforming? Smartphone app store policies have come into focus recently, following a series of recent conflicts between app makers and app store operators (prin. 2021-02-23 22:56:35
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Attacks On Internet Free Speech In Malaysia And Indonesia Demonstrate Why Section 230 Is So Important Two separate stories from Southeast Asia help demonstrate why intermediary liability protections like Section 230 are so important for free speech o. 2021-02-23 19:50:01
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Facebook Caves To Australia: Will Restore Links After Government Gives It More Time To Negotiate Paying For News Links Facebook is restoring news links in Australia after the government agreed to amend the proposed link tax law. We'll explain the details down below, . 2021-02-23 18:42:15
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Apple Settles Trademark Opposition With PrePear Recipe App After The Latter Makes A Barely Perceptible Change In Logo Last summer, we discussed Apple opposing the trademark application for recipe app PrePear. While the tech company and a company that attempts to pro. 2021-02-23 04:57:04
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What Landing On Mars Again Can Teach Us, Again It seems I'm always writing about Section 230 or copyright or some sort of regulatory effort driven by antipathy toward technology. But one of my fa. 2021-02-23 00:59:31
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Karma: Twitch Replaces Live Metallica Concert With 8-Bit Music To Avoid Copyright Madness Long time copyright watchers know that Metallica sullied its reputation with tons of fans when it was the first band to sue the file sharing upstart. 2021-02-22 18:38:11
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'Net Neutrality Hurt Internet Infrastructure Investment' Is The Bad Faith Lie That Simply Won't Die Since the very beginning of the net neutrality debate, ISPs have repeatedly (and falsely) proclaimed that net neutrality rules (read: stopgap rules . 2021-02-22 14:06:34
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is That One Guy offering up a definition of cancel culture: Ooh, ooh, I know that on. 2021-02-21 21:05:31
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Game Jam Winner Spotlight: The Great Gatsby Tabletop Roleplaying Game Last week, we took a look at ~THE GREAT GATSBY~, one of the recently-announced winners of our public domain game jam, Gaming Like It's 1925. Today, . 2021-02-20 22:15:10
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Reminder: Just A Few Days Left Before Our '230 Matters' Conversation With Section 230 Authors Ron Wyden & Chris Cox Get your tickets for Section 230 Matters before February 23rd » There are just a few days left until Tuesday, February . 2021-02-20 01:33:46
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Content Moderation Case Study: Senator Asks YouTube To Block Al Qaeda Videos (2008) Summary: In 2008, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, chaired by then Senator Joe Lieberman, produced a report entitled: . 2021-02-20 00:47:29
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How Oregon's Top Wildlife Official Got Sued Over His State's Hunting App What if you could get a patent on a new government program? Then, you could ask for the government to pay you royalties just for running that . 2021-02-19 22:43:06
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FCC Pressured To Let Libraries Bridge Broadband Access During The Pandemic An estimated 42 million Americans lack access to broadband, nearly double official FCC estimates. That's kind of a problem during a pandemic when yo. 2021-02-19 21:14:13
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Oxford University Study Shows Small Correlation Between Playing Video Games And 'Well Being' For the first few decades after video games became a serious medium of entertainment among the public, they were also blamed for all manner of ills.. 2021-02-19 18:48:10
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New Bill Tries To Ban Community Broadband. During A Pandemic. Having covered telecom for twenty years, I've found there's a good shortcut to determining if somebody's really serious about fixing US broadband is. 2021-02-19 15:36:53
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Peloton Seeks To Invalidate 'Spinning' Trademark Held By Trademark Bully Back in 2010, we discussed that the at-the-time "spin class" craze in the fitness world was encountering the fact that one company, Mad Dogg Athleti. 2021-02-19 04:41:34
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A Teenaged Tech CEO Tries To Sneak In After Curfew And Finds His Mom Waited Up For Him With Congress spending a lot of time these days demanding answers from big tech firms, you may have noticed a notable similarity in style regarding . 2021-02-19 00:57:01
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Indian Government Requires Educational Establishments To Obtain Its Approval For The Subject Matter And Participants Of International Online Conferences And Seminars It would be something of an understatement to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a big effect on our lives. One sector where people have had to . 2021-02-18 22:44:18
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Is Section 230 Just For Start-ups? History Says Nope One of the arguments for changing Section 230 is that even if we needed it a long time ago when the Internet was new, now that the Internet has been. 2021-02-18 19:52:45
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Chattanooga Built Its Own Broadband Network. Now It's The Top Ranked 'Work From Home' City In The US PC Magazine recently unveiled their list of the best cities to work at home from. To make the list, the magazine examined affordable housing, the av. 2021-02-18 14:02:33
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Random Jackass Attempts To Trademark 'Mayor Of Mar-A-Lago' In The Most Hilarious Way For years now, I have railed on the USPTO for its overly permissive posture when it comes to granting trademarks. The whole thing is far too easy, w. 2021-02-18 05:04:21
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Content Moderation Case Study: Google 'Removes' German Residences From Street View By Request (2010) Summary: Google's Street View is a powerful mapping tool that allows users to visit places they'll possibly never be able to visit and allows local . 2021-02-18 00:56:02
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Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board Back when Facebook's Oversight Board was just getting organized, a colleague suggested I represent people before it as part of my legal practice. As. 2021-02-17 21:14:10
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CBP Facial Recognition Program Has Gathered 50 Million Face Photos, Identified Fewer Than 300 Imposters The CBP and DHS have released their annual report [PDF] covering trade and travel. It touts the agencies' successes in these areas but raises some q. 2021-02-17 20:08:42
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A 90 Year Old Shouldn't Have To Buy A $10,000 Ad Just To Get AT&T To Upgrade His Shitty DSL Line Last week I wrote over at Motherboard about 90 years old North Hollywood resident Aaron Epstein, whose family has been an AT&T subscriber since. 2021-02-17 15:40:32
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Minneapolis, Minnesota Becomes The Latest Major City To Pass A Facial Recognition Ban Facial recognition bans are slowly becoming the status quo around the nation. Good. The tech is faulty. And that's understating things. There's. 2021-02-17 12:35:05
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Conservative News Outlet Ordered To Pay More Than $250,000 In Legal Fees To Rachel Maddow, MSNBC Last summer, California's anti-SLAPP law gave MSNBC host Rachel Maddow an early exit from a bogus defamation lawsuit brought by one of the few "news. 2021-02-17 04:59:00
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Texas Power, Phone Outages Again Highlight How Infrastructure Underinvestment Will Be Fatal Moving Forward If you hadn't noticed, the United States isn't really prepared for climate change. In part because corporations and disinformation mills have convin. 2021-02-17 00:42:11
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Techdirt Podcast Episode 270: Regulating The Internet Won't Fix A Broken Government Questions of content moderation and intermediary liability have seeped into just about everything these days, and not just with regards to Sec. 2021-02-16 22:51:31
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230 Matters: One Week Until Our Event & Discussion With Section 230's Authors Get your tickets for Section 230 Matters before February 23rd » A week from today on Tuesday, February 23rd at 12:30pm . 2021-02-16 21:30:36
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State Laws Restricting Community Broadband Are Hurting US Communities During The Pandemic We've talked for years about how telecom monopolies like Comcast and AT&T have ghost written laws in more than twenty states, banning or hamstr. 2021-02-16 15:46:53
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Stephen T. Stone weighing in on one of the many comment-section incarnations of the neve. 2021-02-14 21:35:23
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Game Jam Winner Spotlight: ~THE GREAT GATSBY~ This week, we announced the winners of Gaming Like It's 1925, our third annual game jam celebrating works that entered the public domain in the US t. 2021-02-13 21:09:51
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Civil Rights Groups Argue That Biden Should Drop Assange Prosecution; Noting That It Is An Attack On Journalism It's easy to dislike and distrust Julian Assange. He's done many things to inspire both reactions. Still, it's important to separate out personal fe. 2021-02-12 23:00:05
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The Copia Institute To The Oversight Board Regarding Facebook's Trump Suspension: There Was No Wrong Decision The following is the Copia Institute's submission to the Oversight Board as it evaluates Facebook's decision to remove some of Trump's posts and his. 2021-02-12 21:05:42
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Daily Deal: The Complete 2021 American Sign Language Bundle The need for American Sign Language speakers is continuing to rise. This Complete 2021 American Sign Language Bundle includes Level 1, 2, and 3 and . 2021-02-12 20:08:05
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Announcing The Winners Of The 3rd Annual Public Domain Game Jam! It's that time again — the judges' scores and comments are in, and we've selected the winners of our third annual public domain game jam, Gami. 2021-02-12 20:08:05
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Mental Health Team Handling 911 Calls In Denver Wraps Up Six Months With Dozens Of People Helped, Zero People Arrested In June of last year -- as protests over police brutality occurred all over the nation -- Denver, Colorado rolled out a program that combined common. 2021-02-12 18:38:02
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Annoyance Builds At Elon Musk Getting A Billion In Subsidies For Starlink Broadband So we've noted a few times how Elon Musk's Starlink is going to be a great thing for folks stuck out of reach of traditional broadband options. Thou. 2021-02-11 22:47:14
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Twitter & India Still Arguing Over Whether Or Not Twitter Accounts Supporting Farmer Protests Need To Be Removed Last week we wrote about the Indian government threatening to jail Twitter employees after the company reinstated a long list of accounts that the g. 2021-02-11 21:06:35
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Gun Trafficking Investigation Shows The FBI Is Still Capable Of Accessing Communications On Encrypted Devices It's been clear for some time that the FBI and DOJ's overly dramatic calls for encryption backdoors are unwarranted. Law enforcement still has plent. 2021-02-11 19:46:35
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Daily Deal: The Complete 2021 Learn Linux Bundle The Complete 2020 Learn Linux Bundle has 12 courses to help you learn Linux OS concepts and processes. You'll start with an introduction to Linux an. 2021-02-11 19:45:03
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Steam Becomes Available In China, Offers 53 Whole Games To Customers There is no shortage of critiques for Valve's online PC game store, Steam. That's to be expected, frankly, given how big the platform is. Still, on . 2021-02-11 05:35:44
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Content Moderation Case Study: Twitter Attempts To Tackle COVID-related Vaccine Misinformation (2020) Summary: Following on its efforts in tamping down on election-related misinformation, Twitter's latest moderation efforts target misleading posts ab. 2021-02-11 00:44:54
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How To Think About Online Ads And Section 230 There's been a lot of consternation about online ads, sometimes even for good reason. The problem is that not all of the criticism is sound or well-. 2021-02-10 22:51:25
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Daily Deal: AI And Python Development eBook Bundle The AI and Python Development eBook Bundle has 15 eBooks to help you master artificial intelligence. You'll learn the history of AI and its early ap. 2021-02-10 20:02:54
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Snippet Taxes Not Only Violate The Berne Convention, But Also Betray The Deepest Roots Of Newspaper Culture Last week Techdirt wrote about Australia's proposed News Media Bargaining Code. This is much worse than the already awful Article 15 of the EU Copyr. 2021-02-10 20:02:54
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Latest Anti-Accountability Move By Cops Involves Playing Music While Being Recorded In Hopes Of Triggering Copyright Takedowns Cops tend to dislike being recorded. They don't care much for their own recording devices. They routinely disable equipment or conveniently "forget". 2021-02-10 18:33:41
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16 States Ask The FCC What The Hell Is The Point Of The Verizon Tracfone Merger Late last year, Verizon announced it would be acquiring Tracfone for around $6.2 billion. As we noted when the deal was first announced, it was yet . 2021-02-10 15:07:10
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Why Is Congress Pushing For Locking Up More Culture? In a weird bit of performative nonsense, Senators Thom Tillis and Pat Leahy, along with Representatives Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Mace, have come to. 2021-02-10 00:52:49
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Techdirt Podcast Episode 269: The Oversight Board Starts Overseeing Facebook The first batch of decisions about Facebook's content moderation from the recently-established Oversight Board has garnered lots of reactions,. 2021-02-09 22:42:35
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Section 230 Lets Tech Fix Content Moderation Issues. Congress Should Respect That Congress is on the brink of destroying the internet as we know it. Bipartisanship in Congress is usually rare to see, but odd alliances have fo. 2021-02-09 21:05:26
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Daily Deal: CaptionSaver Pro CaptionSaver Pro will take care of your notes. It's a Chrome extension that automatically saves Google Meet live captions to Google Drive. Pro comes. 2021-02-09 19:51:01
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In The Rush To Strengthen Antitrust Law, We Could Kill Useful Mergers And Acquisitions Last week, Senator Amy Klobuchuar introduced a major antitrust reform bill, entitled the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act. This . 2021-02-09 18:38:01
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DOJ Drops Ridiculous Trump-Era Lawsuit Against California For Passing Net Neutrality Rules After the Trump FCC effectively neutered itself at telecom lobbyist behest, numerous states jumped in to fill the consumer protection void. Californ. 2021-02-09 15:36:53
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Canadian Privacy Commission Says Clearview's App Is Illegal, Tells It To Pack Its Things And Leave Clearview has screwed with the wrong people. The reprehensible facial recognition AI company that sells access to its database of scraped photos and. 2021-02-09 12:39:54
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Appeals Court Tells Lying Cop No 'Reasonable' Officer Would Think It's OK To Tear Gas Journalists For Performing Journalism For some reason, we, the people, keep having to shell out cash to employ a lot of unreasonable law enforcement officers. We've already seen som. 2021-02-09 05:08:36
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25 Years Later: A Celebration Of The Declaration Of The Independence Of Cyberspace As we've been noting in posts throughout the day, today is the day that, 25 years ago, then President Bill Clinton signed into law the Telecommunica. 2021-02-09 00:45:21
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Amazon Transparency Report Indicates Its Multiple IoT Devices Are Juicy Targets For Law Enforcement Never forget the IoT device you invite into your home may become the state's witness. That's one of the unfortunate conclusions that can be drawn fr. 2021-02-08 22:35:05
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The Many Reasons To Celebrate Section 230 I know that Section 230 is very much under attack these days, and I've seen so many people cheer when we point out that dumping 230 could take away . 2021-02-08 21:16:24
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Without Twitter, Trump Is Left To Write Tweets He Would Have Said On Paper With both Twitter and Facebook banning Donald Trump's account last month, after he inspired a mob of goons to ransack the Capitol, there has been so. 2021-02-08 19:58:24
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NYT Easily Tracks Location Data From Capitol Riots, Highlighting Once Again How US Privacy Standards Are A Joke First there was the Securus and LocationSmart scandal, which showcased how cellular carriers and data brokers buy and sell your daily movement data . 2021-02-08 14:42:09
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous commenter pointing out how, in criticisms of online speech and demands for . 2021-02-07 21:07:51
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Judging Has Begun! Check Out The Entries In Our Public Domain Game Jam View all of this year's entries on itch.io » Our public domain game jam, Gaming Like It's 1925, has come to a close, and the entr. 2021-02-06 21:03:59
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Texas Dept. Of Public Safety Issues Amber Alert For Victim Of Horror Doll Chucky There's a rule in IT: don't test on live systems in production. There's debate over this, of course, but the general idea is that testing on live sy. 2021-02-06 04:50:27
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Senators Warner, Hirono, And Klobuchar Demand The End Of The Internet Economy Just because Senators Warner, Hirono, and Klobuchar are apparently oblivious to how their SAFE TECH bill would destroy the Internet doesn't mean eve. 2021-02-05 22:56:32
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Huawei Attempts To Rebuild Trust By Using... Fake Twitter Telecom Experts So we've noted that a lot of the accusations that Huawei spies on Americans on behalf of the US government are lacking in the evidence department. T. 2021-02-05 15:34:29
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Utah Theme Park Sues Taylor Swift Over Album Title After Exploiting It It really is kind of crazy just how often Taylor Swift shows up in Techdirt's pages. One reason for this is that she seems to seesaw in the news bet. 2021-02-05 04:57:33
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We're Living Our Lives On The Internet, And We Can't Be Free If It Isn't. Last year, as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the "offline" world suddenly became a lot more online. All around the world, people have strug. 2021-02-05 00:56:00
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Can A Community Approach To Disinformation Help Twitter? A few weeks ago Twitter announced Birdwatch as a new experimental approach to dealing with disinformation on its platform. Obviously, disinformation. 2021-02-04 22:43:36
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Microsoft Offers To Break The Web In A Desperate Attempt To Get Somebody To Use Its Widely-Ignored Bing Search Engine One of the key battles surrounding the EU Copyright Directive involves the threshold at which upload filters will block the use of copyright materia. 2021-02-04 21:13:43
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Various States All Pile On To Push Blatantly Unconstitutional Laws That Say Social Media Can't Moderate A bunch of Republican state legislators across the country are apparently unconcerned with either the 1st Amendment (or reality) have decided that t. 2021-02-04 19:46:03
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Indian Government Threatens To Jail Twitter Employees For Restoring Accounts The Government Wants Blocked We keep pointing out to people the very slippery slope that happens when we say it's okay for the government to tell websites how they have to moder. 2021-02-04 18:37:51
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Comcast Wants A Cookie For Suspending Its Bullshit Broadband Caps For a Few Months For years, Comcast has slowly but surely expanded its pointless and arbitrary broadband usage caps and overage fees into all of its markets (picture. 2021-02-04 14:30:19
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Annual Reminder: You Can Probably Just Call The Super Bowl The Super Bowl It's that special time of year again where we here at Techdirt need to remind you that, no, the NFL cannot keep you from referring to The Super Bowl. 2021-02-04 04:44:30
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Facebook Oversight Board's First Decisions... Seem To Confirm Everyone's Opinions Of The Board Last week, the Oversight Board -- which is the official name that the former Facebook Oversight Board wants you to call it -- announced decisions on. 2021-02-03 21:13:28
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Joe Lieberman Couldn't Understand Content Moderation When He Was A Senator, But Says If We Get Rid Of 230, It'll Be Fine Former Senator Joe Lieberman was a ridiculous censorial problem when he was a Senator. Back in the early days of social media, when the first questi. 2021-02-03 18:53:22
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After Years Of Litigation, AT&T Customers Get A Measly $22 For Being Lied To Over 'Throttling' Way back in 2014 the FTC sued AT&T for selling "unlimited" wireless data plans with very real and annoying limits. The lawsuit noted that, star. 2021-02-03 14:41:55
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Techdirt Podcast Episode 268: A New Approach To Fighting Online Harassment The most important point we've repeatedly made about content moderation is that it's not simple, and there are always trade-offs — but t. 2021-02-02 22:33:04
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Professional Assholes Equate Consequences With 'Cancel Culture' To Obscure That They're Finally Being Held Accountable You may recall, last summer, there was a big dustup regarding a letter published in Harper's Magazine about cancel culture (though it didn't use tha. 2021-02-02 18:53:46
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AT&T & Verizon Got Billions From Government, Yet Laid Off 95,000 People In Just Five Years You'd be hard pressed to find a sector that has benefited more from the Trump era than telecom. In the last four years, telecom monopolies not only . 2021-02-02 15:37:42
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Texas Immigration Lawyer Sues DHS, CBP Over Seizure And Search Of His Work Phone A Texas immigration lawyer is suing the DHS and CBP over one of its infamous border device searches. His attempt to keep the federal government from. 2021-02-02 12:34:52
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RIAA Launches Brand New Front Group Pretending To Represent Independent Artists A few days ago, a friend asked if I'd ever heard of the "Digital Creators Coalition," an apparently new group that claimed to be representing indepe. 2021-02-02 00:48:13
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Dominion Sues Rudy Giuliani For $1.3 Billion Over False Statements About Its Voting Systems During the runup to the presidential election, through the election, past the election, past the Electoral College vote, past the states' certificat. 2021-02-01 22:46:56
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Columbia Law Professor Spews Blatantly False Information About Section 230 In The Wall Street Journal Another day, another completely ridiculous, wrong, and painful op-ed in a major newspaper that gets all of the details about Section 230 wrong. And . 2021-02-01 21:00:45
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With Loon Dead And Google Fiber Frozen, Google's Broadband Disruption Plays Aren't Looking So Hot When Google Fiber launched back in 2010, it was heralded as a game changer for the broadband industry. Google Fiber, we were told, would revolutioni. 2021-02-01 16:47:05
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With Loom Dead And Google Fiber Frozen, Google's Broadband Disruption Plays Aren't Looking So Hot When Google Fiber launched back in 2010, it was heralded as a game changer for the broadband industry. Google Fiber, we were told, would revolutioni. 2021-02-01 13:54:33
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt This week, both our winners on the insightful side come in response to Google threatening to pull out of Australia if the country goes ahead with de. 2021-01-31 21:01:58
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Gaming Like It's 1925: Check Out The Early Bird Entries In Our Public Domain Game Jam Sign up for the Public Domain Game Jam on itch.io » We're on the home stretch of our annual public domain game jam! If you plan t. 2021-01-30 21:06:13
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Microsoft Patent: Chatbots Made From The Online Habits Of Dead People Every once in a while, you come across some story about chatbots. These tend to range from fun stories about how someone makes a chatbot to make som. 2021-01-30 04:40:57
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Content Moderation Case Study: Twitter Removes Account Of Human Rights Activist (2018) Summary: Manzoor Ahmed Pashteen is a human rights activist in Pakistan, calling attention to unfair treatment of the Pashtun ethnic group, of which . 2021-01-30 00:44:36
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All Hands On Deck: Ensuring Innovation, Not Just Patents, From All As the Iancu era at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office comes to a close, one of the USPTO's initiatives has focused on promoting diversity in pate. 2021-01-29 23:37:45
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The Clock Is Ticking On Our Public Domain Game Jam! Sign up for the Public Domain Game Jam on itch.io » What are your plans this weekend? If you're like most of us living under pand. 2021-01-29 22:32:00
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The Lies Told About The EU Copyright Directive's Upload Filters May Help Get Them Thrown Out In Court Although the main fight over the EU's Copyright Directive was lost back in March 2019, there are plenty of local battles underway. That's a conseque. 2021-01-29 19:47:47
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No, Revoking Section 230 Would Not 'Save Democracy' Steven Hill, the former policy director with the Center for Humane Technologies -- the non-profit that everyone seems to look to as some sort of kno. 2021-01-29 18:41:15
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Georgia Towns Sue Netflix In Flimsy Bid To Nab A Slice Of The Pie A handful of municipalities in Georgia have filed a lawsuit (pdf) against Hulu, Netflix, and other streaming providers in a ham-fisted bid to saddle. 2021-01-29 15:46:25
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The Crunch Is On: Join Our Public Domain Game Jam And Whip Up An Entry This Weekend! Sign up for the Public Domain Game Jam on itch.io » Game jams come in all shapes, sizes and, crucially, time spans. Many of them . 2021-01-29 00:06:57
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27% Of Cable TV Subscribers Will Cut The Cord This Year The cable industry was already struggling last year, when a record number of cable customers "cut the cord" and flocked to over the air or streaming. 2021-01-28 22:50:17
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Biggest MAGA Conference Threatens Politico With Bogus Lawsuit For Reporting On Conference Troubles CPAC, the "Conservative Political Action Conference" put on each year by Matt Schlapp's American Conservative Union (ACU), used to be the kind of ga. 2021-01-28 19:48:53
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The Wall Street Journal Kisses Big Telecom's Ass In Whiny Screed About 'Big Tech' Apparently, when you write about major tech policy for the Wall Street Journal, you don't have to have the slightest idea what you're talking about.. 2021-01-28 15:30:39
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Britain Helps Children Learn From Home By Procuring Them Laptops Preloaded With Russian Malware As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, one of the main points of contention has been how to handle schools. Some countries sent all studen. 2021-01-28 05:08:26
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How Can Conservatives Fight Back Against Big Tech? For A Start, Just Be Sane Again. Right wingers are demanding that their political leaders do something, anything. There must be a response to Twitter's ban on Donald Trump, and to. 2021-01-27 21:23:24
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Facebook's Post-Insurrection Purge Catches A Bunch Of Left Wing Accounts In Its AI Net Facebook has often been accused of having an anti-conservative bias. But its efforts to clean up its platform following the January 6th attack on th. 2021-01-27 18:31:26
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NYPD Still Blowing The Public's Money To Keep The Public From Seeing The NYPD's Misconduct Records The NYPD is still spending taxpayers' money to prevent taxpayers from accessing police misconduct records. The latest fight over these records was p. 2021-01-27 05:12:33
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Techdirt Podcast Episode 267: A Section 230 Roundtable We've got one more cross-post from another podcast this week, and the subject is still the law that's dominating the tech policy discourse: Se. 2021-01-26 22:35:43
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House Republicans Have A Big Tech Plan... That Is Both Unconstitutional And Ridiculous Republicans have spent decades holding themselves out as the party of "small government" and "keeping government out of business," while also claimi. 2021-01-26 21:02:46
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Former US Ambassador Sues Apple Because Telegram Users Are Making Him Feel Scared [Update] Here's an interesting lawsuit, brought to you by some familiar names. And by "interesting," I mean "exceedingly stupid." The lawsuit [PDF] was . 2021-01-26 18:36:35
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Broadband Monopolies Keep Getting Money For Networks Never Fully Deployed As we've noted a few times, there's an underlying belief in American tech policy that if we just keep throwing money at entrenched broadband monopol. 2021-01-26 15:28:17
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Louisiana Legislature Approves Tepid Police 'Reforms' That Won't Do Much To Give The State Better Police Police reform efforts are being mounted all over the nation, but very few appear to be capable of creating any lasting, positive changes. Reforming . 2021-01-26 05:15:26
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BMG, Aggressive Champion Of Copyright Enforcement, Accused Of Copyright Infringement By Jehovah's Witnesses Readers here will not need to be reminded that BMG, a prolific music label, is also a prolific enforcer of copyright. BMG has been party to some of . 2021-01-26 00:59:00
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BMG, Aggressive Champion Of Copyright Enforcement, Accused Of Copyright Infringement By Jehovah's Witnesses Readers here will not need to be reminded that BMG, a prolific music label, is also a prolific enforcer of copyright. BMG has been party to some of . 2021-01-26 00:51:35
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Google Threatens To Pull Out Of Australia Entirely; Australians Demand That It Both Stay And Pay News Orgs For Giving Them Traffic For the last year, we've been highlighting how Australia's rush to create a Google News tax is so stupid. It follows similar efforts in Europe and a. 2021-01-25 21:11:14
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New Interim FCC Boss Jessica Rosenworcel Will Likely Restore Net Neutrality, Just Not Yet With Trump FCC boss Ajit Pai and his giant coffee mug headed for the revolving door, the Biden administration has tagged existing FCC Commissioner J. 2021-01-25 19:51:31
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Disingenuous, Lying, Whining, Bloviating, Insurrection Encouraging Senator Josh Hawley Given Pages Of Major Newspaper To Explain How He's Being Silenced In Netflix's recent release, "Death to 2020," Lisa Kudrow does an absolutely pitch perfect parody of whiny "conservative" upset about non-existent ". 2021-01-25 18:41:25
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Congressman Asks House Education Committee To Look At Pre-Crime Program Targeting Florida Schoolkids Late last year, the Tampa Bay Times broke the news the local sheriff's office had set up a "pre-crime" program targeting schoolkids in Pasco County.. 2021-01-25 15:43:58
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt This week, both our winners on the insightful side come from the long conversation on our post about the deplatforming of Parler. In first place, it. 2021-01-24 21:10:34
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Gaming Like It's 1925: Last Week To Join The Public Domain Game Jam! Sign up for the Public Domain Game Jam on itch.io » It's now been almost a full month since works published in 1925 entered the p. 2021-01-23 20:02:48
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Appeals Court Rejects Clearview's Attempt To Dodge A State Lawsuit By Trying To Make It A Federal Case Clearview's attempt to dodge a potential class-action lawsuit filed against it in Illinois has just been booted back to the Illinois court system by. 2021-01-23 04:46:28
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Content Moderation Case Study: Facebook Targets Misinformation Spread By The Philippines Government (2020) Summary: Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte's rise to power was greatly aided by Facebook and its overwhelming popularity within the country. An . 2021-01-23 00:54:29
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Turns Out That Brexit Means Rotting Pigs' Heads, And Losing An EU Copyright Exception Surprising no one who understands anything about international trade, the UK's departure from the EU -- Brexit -- is proving to be disastrous for it. 2021-01-22 21:20:10
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Court Tosses RICO Lawsuit Demanding $90 Million And The Dissolution Of Google For Supposed Anti-Conservative Bias A lawsuit [PDF] against Google over ad practices and search engine rankings has been dismissed. The allegations start normally before taking a sharp. 2021-01-22 18:53:17
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The Esports Industry Grew; Now It's Time For It To Grow Up As we've discussed for some time, the esports industry has been the subject of unprecedented growth in competitive sports. This growth trend began n. 2021-01-22 05:02:55
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Judge Easily Rejects Parler's Demands To Have Amazon Reinstate Parler As was totally expected, US district court judge, Barbara Jacobs Rothstein, has handily rejected Parler's motion to force Amazon to turn Parler's di. 2021-01-22 00:54:07
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Oversight Board Agrees To Review Facebook's Trump Suspension On Thursday morning, the Oversight Board (you're apparently not supposed to call it the "Facebook Oversight Board" since it's -- theoretically -- in. 2021-01-21 19:45:32
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New York Times Decides Kids Are Playing Too Many Video Games During The Pandemic One of the most predictable things in the world is that if anything is going on in the universe, people will try to find some way to make video game. 2021-01-21 18:48:29
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Outgoing FCC's Last Act Is A Delusional Report That Pretends US Broadband Is Wonderful By law, the FCC is required once a year to issue a report indicating whether quality broadband is being deployed on a "reasonable and timely basis.". 2021-01-21 15:38:15
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SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Case Between Jack Daniels And VIP Products Over Doggy Chew Toy The trademark dispute between Jack Daniels, famed maker of brown liquor, and VIP Products, maker of less famous doggy chew toy Bad Spaniels, has bee. 2021-01-21 05:15:34
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Content Moderation Case Study: Using Hashes And Scanning To Stop Cloud Storage From Being Used For Infringement (2014) Summary: Since the rise of the internet, the recording industry has been particularly concerned about how the internet can and will be used to share. 2021-01-21 01:00:43
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Daily Deal: WYSIWYG Web Builder v16 WYSIWYG Web Builder is an all-in-one software solution that can be used to create complete web sites. What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get means that all pa. 2021-01-20 19:49:47
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Fox News Needs To Accept Some Of The Blame For The Insurrection; But That Doesn't Mean We Toss Out The 1st Amendment While lots of people have been blaming social media for the insurrection at the Capitol a few weeks back, fewer have recognized that Fox News is at . 2021-01-20 18:42:14
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With Trump Loss, Charter Backs Off FCC Request To Allow Broadband Caps To be very clear: American consumers don't like broadband usage caps. At all. Most Americans realize (either intellectually or on instinct) that mon. 2021-01-20 15:26:41
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Turkish President Erdogan Is Arresting Doctors On Terrorism Charges For Exposing The Country's Actual COVID Stats Anyone who says anything critical of the Turkish government is a terrorist. That's been the operative theory of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has jailed. 2021-01-20 12:24:35
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Free Access To Academic Papers For Everyone In India: Government Proposes 'One Nation, One Subscription' Approach As Part Of Major Shift To Openness Techdirt has been following the important copyright case in India that is about how people in that country can access academic journals. Currently, . 2021-01-20 05:08:05
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Techdirt Podcast Episode 266: In Defense Of Section 230 & A Decentralized Internet The podcast went on pause over the holidays and amidst the deluge of... events — but now we're back! And to kick things off, we've got a. 2021-01-19 22:33:39
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As Beijing Continues To Creep Into Hong Kong, Internet Censorship Begins As we've written about recently, Beijing's creep into Hong Kong control has turned into nearly a dash as of late. What started with July's new "nati. 2021-01-19 19:45:34
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Daily Deal: MyDraw Diagramming Software MyDraw is an advanced diagramming software and vector graphics drawing tool. This diagram software includes powerful features to help you create flo. 2021-01-19 19:41:37
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Gaming Like It's 1925: Less Than Two Weeks Left To Join The Public Domain Game Jam! Sign up for the Public Domain Game Jam on itch.io » The clock is ticking — we're past the halfway point of January, and you. 2021-01-18 20:04:45
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This Week In Techdirt History: January 10th - 16th Five Years Ago This week in 2016, the world was responding to the death of David Bowie, and we looked back on his innovation in music business . 2021-01-16 21:05:13
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A Few More Thoughts On The Total Deplatforming Of Parler & Infrastructure Content Moderation I've delayed writing deeper thoughts on the total deplatforming of Parler, in part because there was so much else happening (including some more tim. 2021-01-16 02:46:58
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Content Moderation Case Study: Dealing With Demands From Foreign Governments (January 2016) Summary: US companies obviously need to obey US laws, but dealing with demands from foreign governments can present challenging dilemmas. The Sarawa. 2021-01-16 00:33:58
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Another Day, Another Location Data Privacy Scandal We'll Probably Do Nothing About Another day, another location data scandal we probably won't do anything about. Joseph Cox, a one-man wrecking ball on the location data privac. 2021-01-15 23:02:14
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Former FCC Boss Tom Wheeler Continues To Misunderstand And Misrepresent Section 230 And The Challenges Of Content Moderation It's not just Ajit Pai who is an FCC chair who misunderstands Section 230. His predecessor, Tom Wheeler continues to get it totally wrong as well. A. 2021-01-15 21:25:19
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Nintendo Hates You: Gaming Giant Lobs A DMCA Nuke At Hundreds Of Fan Games Nintendo has built quite a reputation for itself as an intellectual property protectionist, going much further than most other game publishers to ex. 2021-01-15 19:47:15
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Daily Deal: The Premium 2021 Project And Quality Management Bundle The Premium 2021 Project and Quality Management Bundle has 22 courses to help you learn how to handle any project and deliver efficient results. You. 2021-01-15 19:44:02
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Broadband Market Failure Keeps Forcing Americans To Build Their Own ISPs For decades now a growing number of US towns and cities have been forced into the broadband business thanks to US telecom market failure. Frustrated. 2021-01-15 15:40:34
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Esports' Wild 2020 Ride Culminates In 69 Percent Growth And A Continuing Rising Trend While we had covered the rise and growth of esports for several years now, readers here will recognize that 2020 became something of an inflection p. 2021-01-15 04:50:47
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Judge Not Impressed By Parler's Attempt To Force Amazon To Put It Back Online It appears that Parler's antitrust lawsuit against Amazon for suspending its AWS account isn't off to a very good start. In an emergency hearing on . 2021-01-15 00:33:08
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Parler's CEO Promises That When It Comes Back... It'll Moderate Content... With An Algorithm Parler, Parler, Parler, Parler. Back in June of last year when Parler was getting lots of attention for being the new kid on the social media scene . 2021-01-14 22:56:47
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Dominion Voting Systems Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Former Trump Lawyer, Sidney Powell We write a lot about defamation suits here at Techdirt. Most of what we cover are baseless lawsuits -- lawsuits featuring powerful people "punching . 2021-01-14 21:24:38
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Sheryl Sandberg Makes Disingenuous Push To Argue That Only Facebook Has The Power To Stop Bad People Online While Twitter is opening up to have the difficult conversation about how content moderation and the open internet should co-exist at a time when the. 2021-01-14 19:50:11
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Jack Dorsey Explains The Difficult Decision To Ban Donald Trump; Reiterates Support For Turning Twitter Into A Decentralized Protocol Last Friday, Twitter made the decision to permanently ban Donald Trump from its platform, which I wrote about at the time, explaining that it's not . 2021-01-14 18:53:08
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House Lawmakers Question Telecom Giants Over Broadband Price Gouging During A Pandemic House lawmakers say that telecom giants are exploiting a national health and economic crisis to make an extra buck. The subject of their ire ar. 2021-01-14 15:09:53
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Nintendo Appears To Be Using A Fan-Made Drawing Of Mario Without Artist's Permission Or Credit Nintendo, of course, has an impressively long history of being IP protectionist in the extreme. But if there is one thing that Nintendo really canno. 2021-01-14 05:08:05
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Content Moderation Case Study: Yelp Attempts To Tackle Racism On Its Platform (2020) Summary: Running a site that relies on third-party content means having to deal with the underside of human existence. While most people engage in g. 2021-01-14 00:39:07
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Daily Deal: The Personal And Business Finance Super Bundle The Personal and Business Finance Super Bundle features 12 courses on how to handle your finances effectively with content on accounting, financial . 2021-01-13 19:52:05
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Bad Idea: President-Elect Biden Wants To Turn 1/6 Into The New 9/11 Many of us watched in horror as Trump supporters -- encouraged by the outgoing President's insinuation that a "stolen" election could be overturned . 2021-01-13 18:32:36
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Big Telecom Wants A Cookie For Pausing PAC Donations After Hoovering Up Billions In Trump Favors Outside from perhaps military contractors, you'd be pretty hard pressed to find a US business sector that benefitted more from Trumpism that the tel. 2021-01-13 15:04:34
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Louisville Courier-Journal Wins 'Derby Pie' Trademark Dispute Last month, we discussed a crazy lawsuit brought by Alan Rupp, owner of Kern's Kitchen and the trademark for the fairly famous "Derby Pie." Rupp has. 2021-01-13 05:12:07
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Irony: German Chancellor Merkel Upset At Twitter For Banning Trump; Meanwhile Germany Demands Social Media Blocks Dangerous Content Lots of folks are reporting on the news that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has now said that she finds Twitter's decision to ban Donald Trump "pro. 2021-01-12 21:21:55
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Some Thoughts On Twitter Pulling The Plug On Trump's Account Background First of all, corporations enjoy First Amendment protections, among other constitutional protections. Although some of my friends . 2021-01-12 19:46:51
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Twitter Bans Sci-Hub's Account Because Of 'Counterfeit Goods' Policy, As Indian Copyright Case Heats Up A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about an important copyright case in India, where a group of academic publishers is seeking a dynamic injuncti. 2021-01-12 12:22:18
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Small Idaho ISP 'Punishes' Twitter And Facebook's 'Censorship'...By Blocking Access To Them Entirely A small Idaho ISP by the name of Your T1 WIFI has decided to punish Twitter and Facebook for perceived "censorship"...by censoring them. In an email. 2021-01-12 00:54:20
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Small Idaho ISP 'Punishes' Twitter And Facebook's 'Censorship'...By Blocking Access To Them Entirely A small Idaho ISP by the name of Your T1 WIFI has decided to punish Twitter and Facebook for perceived "censorship"...by censoring them. In an email. 2021-01-12 00:40:06
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Dear Section 230 Critics: When Senators Hawley And Cruz Are Your Biggest Allies, It's Time To Rethink Last week Senators Hawley and Cruz used their platform and power as United States Senators to deliberately spread disinformation they knew or should. 2021-01-11 21:07:15
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The Beijing Arrests In Hong Kong Expand As America Loses Its Ability To Credibly Respond While we've been discussing the troubling actions the Chinese government has undertaken against Hong Kong for some time now, the movements are start. 2021-01-11 19:54:15
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The Slope Gets More Slippery As You Expect Content Moderation To Happen At The Infrastructure Layer What a week the first week of January has been! As democracy and its institutions were tested in the United States, so was the Internet and its a. 2021-01-11 18:42:18
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A Few Reminders Before The Tired Net Neutrality Debate Is Rekindled Bad news for folks "worn out" by the longstanding debate over net neutrality: it's about to be rekindled in a major way. But for those who are a bit. 2021-01-11 14:41:52
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt We've got a double winner this week, with a comment from Bloof taking the first place spot for insightful and the second place spot for funny. It's . 2021-01-10 21:06:29
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Gaming Like It's 1925: There's Still Plenty Of Time To Join Our Public Domain Game Jam! Sign up for the Public Domain Game Jam on itch.io » We're just over a week into our third annual public domain game jam, Gaming L. 2021-01-09 21:05:09
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Not Easy, Not Unreasonable, Not Censorship: The Decision To Ban Trump From Twitter When I started writing this post, it was about Facebook's decision to suspend Trump's account indefinitely, and at least until Joe Biden is inaugura. 2021-01-09 02:48:11
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Content Moderation Case Study: SoundCloud Combats Piracy By Giving Universal Music The Power To Remove Uploads (2014) Summary: Any site that relies on uploaded content has to be wary of hosting pirated content. In most cases, allegedly infringing content is removed . 2021-01-09 00:58:48
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Identifying Insurrectionists Is Going To Be Easy -- Thanks To Social Media And All The Other Online Trails People Leave As Techdirt readers know, there's a lot of hatred for social media in some circles, and lots of lies being told about why Section 230 is to blame. A. 2021-01-08 22:43:11
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That's A Wrap: Techdirt Greenhouse, Broadband In The Covid Era Over the last few months a wide variety of activists, experts, engineers, and academics provided their insights into broadband access (or a lack the. 2021-01-08 21:04:31
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Daily Deal: The Complete 2021 Learn Linux Bundle The Complete 2020 Learn Linux Bundle has 12 courses to help you learn Linux OS concepts and processes. You'll start with an introduction to Linux an. 2021-01-08 20:02:15
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PSA: If Someone Doesn't Accept Your Friend Request, Do Not Threaten To Kill Them And Kick In Their Front Door We've all been there. You jump on some social media platform having met someone in this existence that passes for real life and fire off a friend re. 2021-01-08 04:36:08
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Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz Helps Protect Free Speech & Fair Use By Losing Yet Another Case Richard Liebowitz is infamous as the notoriously inept copyright troll lawyer. He's so bad at his job that he's been sanctioned repeatedly, and rece. 2021-01-08 00:46:09
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Wednesday, January 6th: The Day The Game Of Politics Turned Into Insurrection It's Thursday, January 7th, one day after a group of thuggish, Trump-supporting hooligans stormed the nation's Capitol building and attempted to tak. 2021-01-07 19:57:56
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'Going Dark?': Cops Grab Vehicle Data To Identify A Murder Suspect All the cops in the federal shops say "going dark" is a thing. Local cops have much less to say about the issue, even though they've got a. 2021-01-07 18:56:49
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AT&T Is Restoring Its Bullshit Broadband Caps Because Apparently The COVID Crisis Is Over Last March, the Trump FCC put on a big show about a new "Keep America Connected Pledge" to help broadband users during COVID. In it, the FCC proudly. 2021-01-07 15:29:30
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Could The Digital Divide Unite Us? The digital divide is not only a rural problem. The digital divide is a problem that unites us across rural, urban, suburban and tribal lands. It is. 2021-01-06 21:19:58
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Could The Digital Divide Unite Us? The digital divide is not only a rural problem. The digital divide is a problem that unites us across rural, urban, suburban and tribal lands. It is. 2021-01-06 21:11:23
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Cass Sunstein's No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Idea For Using Defamation To Fight 'Fake News' Cass Sunstein is a famous legal scholar, who is probably most well known for his book "Nudge" about design decisions that governments can take to in. 2021-01-06 20:02:48
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UK Music Rights Group Demands Payment From A Pub That Isn't Playing Any Music Because It's Closed Due To COVID It's been a while since we last wrote about PRS for Music, the UK music collection group that is somewhat infamous for its overly aggressive demands. 2021-01-06 18:41:49
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Pudding-Brained 5G Conspiracies Somehow Get Even Dumber We've made it repeatedly clear that 5G now exists in some kind of alternate reality, untethered from this complicated mortal plane. One one side, yo. 2021-01-06 15:29:17
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'Going Dark' Is Bullshit, Says Yet Another Report Detailing All The Ways Law Enforcement Can Obtain Evidence "Going dark" is a "problem" that appears to be localized almost entirely at the federal level. While numerous options have presented themselves over. 2021-01-06 12:28:18
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Surprise! Singapore Backtracks On Privacy Pledge And Opens Contact Tracing Data To Police Singapore has a relatively long history when it comes to using modern technology to create a surveillance state within its borders. The monitoring o. 2021-01-06 04:59:54
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ViaSat Asks FCC To Investigate Space X For Space Pollution So we've already noted how Space X's Starlink low-orbit satellite broadband service isn't going to revolutionize the broadband industry. The service. 2021-01-05 22:53:41
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Part Of Apple's Abuse Of The DMCA Against Corellium Thrown Out... But Part Of It Lives On Almost exactly a year ago, we wrote about a very troubling case in which Apple sued Corellium, arguing that it was copyright infringement for the co. 2021-01-05 19:57:50
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Lawmakers Complain About Comcast's Bullshit Expanded Usage Caps Last November, Comcast announced it would be expanding its bullshit usage caps and overage fees into the Northeast. For years, the Northeast had avo. 2021-01-05 15:29:15
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Hong Kong Court Revokes Bail For Jimmy Lai After Deciding It Didn't Interpret Vague National Security Law Vaguely Enough The Chinese government has been showing its impatience over its impending takeover of Hong Kong. China agreed to allow Hong Kong to run under its ow. 2021-01-05 12:37:37
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Seven Years Ago, CERN Gave Open Access A Huge Boost; Now It's Doing The Same For Open Data Techdirt readers will be very familiar with CERN, the European Council for Nuclear Research (the acronym comes from the French version: Conseil Euro. 2021-01-05 05:28:10
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Obscure Analytics Tool Helps Cops Make Sense Of All That Location Data They're Grabbing Without A Warrant FOIA requests, leaked documents, data breaches, Congressional testimony… all of these have led to the outing of cellphone surveillance tech u. 2021-01-05 00:34:00
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How Smart Software And AI Helped Networks Thrive For Consumers During The Pandemic Staying ahead of modern Internet usage – including the unprecedented surge caused by the global pandemic – requires much more than just raw capa. 2021-01-04 21:06:56
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Malware Merchant NSO Group Caught Leaving Harvested Location Data Exposed Israeli surveillance tech firm NSO Group is something else. (Pejorative, yo.) It set up shop in a contested country where it's not all that paranoid. 2021-01-04 19:48:39
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FCC Takes A Break From Not Caring About Consumers To Hassle Some Landlords Over Pirate Radio It's been pretty clear for a while now that the Trump/Ajit Pai FCC simply doesn't give a shit about consumer protection, healthy markets, high price. 2021-01-04 15:36:14
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This Week In Techdirt History: December 27th - January 2nd Five Years Ago This week in 2015, China was doing exactly what many warned they would do and pointing to the US to defend its own anti-encrypti. 2021-01-02 21:07:40
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Gaming Like It's 1925: The Public Domain Game Jam Has Begun! Sign up for the Public Domain Game Jam on itch.io » Today's the day:works published in 1925 have run out of copyright protection . 2021-01-01 17:11:16
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New Year's Message: Make The World A Better Place It's tricky to figure out how to start this post this year, of all years. As long-time readers are aware, ever since 2008, my final post of the year. 2020-12-31 18:05:49
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Senators Tell The USPTO To Remove The Arbitrary Obstacles Preventing Inventors (Especially Women Inventors) From Getting Patents There are plenty of issues with the patent system as we know it today, but one big one is with the system we use to award them. It's a problem becau. 2020-12-31 04:44:39
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Content Moderation Case Study: Understanding Cultural Context To Detect Satire (2020) Summary: During the somewhat controversial Senate confirmation hearings for the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, there we. 2020-12-31 00:41:24
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Brexit Deal Copied And Pasted Recommendations For Netscape, Outdated Encryption You'd think a massive and controversial deal to sever the UK from the European Union, impacting the lives of millions of people over the better part. 2020-12-30 21:16:16
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Comcast's Pandemic Price Hike Bonanza Continues You'd hardly know there was an historic economic and health crisis going on based on Comcast's behavior. Clearly nervous about a new incoming r. 2020-12-30 15:40:26
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Girl Scouts Continuing To Fight Boy Scouts Of America Over Trademarks, Branding While Techdirt generally and myself more specifically tend to fall on the side of a more permissive philosophy when it comes to policing trademarks,. 2020-12-30 05:34:46
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Section 230 Isn't A Subsidy; It's A Rule Of Civil Procedure The other day Senator Schatz tweeted, "Ask every Senator what Section 230 is. Don't ask them if they want to repeal it. Ask them to describe it." . 2020-12-30 00:48:47
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Chinese Government Sentences Journalist To Four Years In Jail For Reporting On The Spread Of The Coronavirus Shortly after the coronavirus started showing up everywhere uninvited, President Trump decided to amplify his China-centric trade war with a war of . 2020-12-29 21:14:20
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Pasco County Sheriff's School 'Pre-Crime' Program Is Violating Federal Privacy Laws Predictive policing has spread from the streets to the school house, bringing with it everything that's screwed up about it. But this time it target. 2020-12-29 12:25:42
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Elsevier Wants To Stop Indian Medics, Students And Academics Accessing Knowledge The Only Way Most Of Them Can Afford: Via Sci-Hub And Libgen Last month Techdirt wrote about some ridiculous scaremongering from Elsevier against Sci-Hub, which the publisher claimed was a "security risk". Sci. 2020-12-29 05:04:30
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First Circuit Appeals Court Reaffirms Its 2011 Decision: The First Amendment Protects The Recording Of Cops More than a decade ago, Simon Glik was arrested by Boston police officers for the "crime" of recording them in public. This was made possible by a l. 2020-12-28 23:02:54
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Coalition Of Internet Companies Who Are Decidedly Not 'Big Tech' Raise Their Voices About The Importance Of Section 230 A few weeks ago we noted that smaller, but still important, internet companies were working to get in the room on the discussions regarding Section . 2020-12-28 21:13:02
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Presidential Commission On Law Enforcement Says Pretty Much Everyone But Cops Are To Blame For The Shitty State Of American Policing [Note: this is one of what will probably be several posts covering the Commission's 332-page report. There's a lot to cover in here and one post sim. 2020-12-28 19:48:40
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Verizon's Latest 5G Innovation: A 5G 'DSS' Network That's Slower Than 4G While unveiling its shiny new 5G-enabled iPhones back in October, Apple brought Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg to the stage to declare that Verizon had l. 2020-12-28 15:15:39
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This Week In Techdirt History: December 20th - 26th Five Years Ago This week in 2015, while newly-leaked documents were exposing the US government's surveillance options, Hillary Clinton was nons. 2020-12-25 21:04:44
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Gaming Like It's 1925: The Third Annual Public Domain Game Jam Starts January 1st Sign up for the Public Domain Game Jam on itch.io » Lots of people will be exchanging gifts tomorrow, but we all get one on Janua. 2020-12-24 18:05:23
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Esports Milestone: Esports Becomes A Medal Event At The Asian Games While we've continued to cover the rise of esports as an emerging force in the competitive games marketplace, the rise in popularity and adoption of. 2020-12-24 04:50:31
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Content Moderation Case Study: Using Copyright To Take Down A Transformative Criticism Video (2019) Summary: In the fall of 2019, talk show host Ellen Degeneres was criticized after being seen attending a professional football game with former Pres. 2020-12-24 01:05:23
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Apparently Trump Refuses To Allow The Government To Do Anything At All Until The Open Internet Is Destroyed Well, the government is closing out the year with quite a mess. As threatened, President Trump today vetoed the massive National Defense Authorizati. 2020-12-23 23:06:35
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UK Spy Agency Fails In Attempt To Bury Records Of Its Criminal Activity Hi, kids! Do you like state-ordained violence? Want to see me [redacted] in each one of my [redacted]? Wanna copy me and do exactly like I did? [Bon. 2020-12-23 22:47:39
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UK Spy Agency's Attempt To Bury Reports Its Ordained Criminal Activity Fails Hi, kids! Do you like state-ordained violence? Want to see me [redacted] in each one of my [redacted]? Wanna copy me and do exactly like I did? [Bon. 2020-12-23 19:50:40
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The Mystery Of The Copyright On Sherlock Holmes' Emotions Goes Unsolved Due To Settlement Since this past summer we have been writing about a bonkers lawsuit brought against the makers of a Netflix movie, Enola Holmes, by the Conan Doyle . 2020-12-23 05:19:52
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Czech Search Engine Seznam Joins In the 'Let's Sue Google' Fun, Seeks $417 Million in Damages It seems that people have decided that now is a good time to attack Google in various ways. In October, the US Justice Department sued Google for al. 2020-12-22 22:50:33
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US Attorney Blames Violent Crime Spike In Austin, Texas On Police Budget Cuts That Haven't Even Been Implemented Yet Movements to "defund" law enforcement agencies have sprung up around the nation, trailing the protests against police violence that spread across th. 2020-12-22 21:26:27
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Senator Tillis Releases Massive Unconstitutional Plan To Reshape The Internet In Hollywood's Image Yesterday, Senator Thom Tillis helped ram through a gift for Hollywood: getting the felony streaming copyright bill that he'd only released a week e. 2020-12-22 20:06:33
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You'll Need Fifty Stimulus Checks To Pay The Damages You Might Get Hit With Under The CASE Act It was only mid-day yesterday that it was confirmed that Congress has slipped in two controversial copyright provisions into the must-pass governmen. 2020-12-22 18:23:27
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We Had To Pass A Law To Stop Telecom Monopolies From Charging You 'Rental Fees' For Things You Already Own For much of the last few years, broadband customers have been complaining that Frontier Communications, the nation's third-biggest telco, had been c. 2020-12-22 15:56:18
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Esports Milestone: The Philadelphia Eagles Become The First NFL Team To Dive Into Esports We've been talking about the growth of esports for some time here, in particular the way it has exploded in use since the pandemic first began. Stil. 2020-12-22 05:36:45
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New COVID Bill Includes Billions To Shore Up Broadband Access. But... It's generally understood that the latest Congressional COVID relief package is the policy equivalent of a band-aid on a lost limb, and the $600 bei. 2020-12-21 21:15:42
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Wonder Woman Forces AT&T & Roku To End Their Petty Squabbles At the start of this year, AT&T's creatively named streaming app, AT&T TV Now (since renamed HBO Max), was unceremoniously pulled from all. 2020-12-21 15:01:46
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This Week In Techdirt History: December 13th - 19th Five Years Ago This week in 2015, the clueless press was still letting itself get played and suggesting that encryption played a role in the Sa. 2020-12-19 21:11:00
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Lemonade Beats Deutsche Telekom In French Court Over Use Of The Color Magenta Last year we wrote about a New York insurance company called Lemonade being forced by a German court to cease using the color pink/magenta in its br. 2020-12-19 04:49:19
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Content Moderation Case Studies: Copyright Claims On White Noise (2018) Summary: Every platform hosting user generated content these days is pretty much required (usually by law) to have policies in place to deal with co. 2020-12-19 01:03:13
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Americans For Prosperity Sue Commerce Department To Find Out Who Was Influencing NTIA's Attack On Section 230 This is kind of fascinating. The group Americans for Prosperity have announced they've filed FOIA litigation against the Commerce Department after i. 2020-12-18 22:47:54
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With Terrible Federal Broadband Data, States Are Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands As a director of a state broadband program, one of my biggest challenges is data. I know lots of areas in my state have inadequate or no service. I . 2020-12-18 21:00:39
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Another Day, Another Antitrust Lawsuit For Google: So, just as I was finishing off the post on Wednesday's antitrust lawsuit against Google brought by 10 states, news broke that the other big state a. 2020-12-18 18:46:21
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AT&T Pisses Off Everybody (Especially Christopher Nolan) For Launching Movies Straight To Streaming To be clear, AT&T has no shortage of nasty habits, whether we're talking about how the company routinely does too little to thwart criminals ea. 2020-12-18 15:59:48
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CD Projekt Red Heaps Bullshit Via Tweet After Removing Game To Appease China One of the more delightful oddities of 2018, a year that was at least a zillion times better than this one, was the emergence of Chinese President X. 2020-12-18 05:07:26
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Secret Agents Implicated In The Poisoning Of Opposition Leader Alexey Navalny Identified Thanks To Russia's Black Market In Everybody's Personal Data Back in August, the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned on a flight to Moscow. Despite initial doubts -- and the usual denials by . 2020-12-17 21:41:16
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FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr Again Misrepresents The Debate Over Section 230 Late on Tuesday evening, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr suddenly issued a weird and misleading anti-230 Twitter thread, claiming (falsely) that suppo. 2020-12-17 18:46:15
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Lawmakers Question Why FCC Is Throwing Taxpayer Money At Incompetent Telcos With History Of Fraud In West Virginia, incumbent telco Frontier has repeatedly been busted in a series of scandals involving substandard service and the misuse of taxpay. 2020-12-17 15:45:50
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NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Signs Law Banning Sale Of Confederate Flags That Will Absolutely Get Nullified Let's be clear: that fact that there are people all over America that for any reason would want to display the Confederate battle flag is monumental. 2020-12-17 04:50:59
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Content Moderation Case Study: Vimeo Moderates Uploads Of 'Commercial-Use' Videos Using Unclear Guidelines (2009) Summary: Vimeo, the video-hosting website created by CollegeHumor's parent company in 2004, has always presented itself as a destination for creator. 2020-12-17 00:48:42
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A National Solution To The Digital Divide Starts With States Although the digital divide didn’t start with COVID-19, the pandemic has put into stark relief the need to bridge this divide once and for all. 2020-12-16 21:00:59
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Lindsey Graham's Latest Attack On Section 230: Reform It By 2023, Or We Take It Away I still am perplexed at why so many politicians hate Section 230. They've yet to provide any compelling reason at all. But, hate it, they do. Lindse. 2020-12-16 19:58:03
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Smaller Internet Companies Say They're Open To 230 Reform... To Keep Facebook From Being The Only Voice In The Room Earlier this fall, Facebook was (not surprisingly) the first big internet company to cave and to tell Congress that it was open to Section 230 refor. 2020-12-16 18:51:49
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FCC Accused Of Falsely Inflating U.S. Gigabit Broadband Availability However spotty and uncompetitive U.S. broadband is, it's particularly bad when it comes to faster speeds. Why? Because in many areas regional telcos. 2020-12-16 15:33:06
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French Film Company Somehow Trademarks 'Planet', Goes After Environmental NGOs For Using The Word We cover a great many ridiculous and infuriating trademark disputes here, but it's always the disputes around overly broad terms that never should h. 2020-12-16 05:32:00
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Gaming Like It's 1925: Get Ready For The Next Public Domain Game Jam Sign up for the Public Domain Game Jam on itch.io » In a couple weeks, the public domain in the US will expand for the third year. 2020-12-15 22:51:15
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FTC's Misses Opportunity To Understand Social Media; Instead Goes For Weird Fishing Expedition Against Odd Grouping Of Companies On Monday, the FTC announced that it was issuing what's known as 6(b) orders to nine social media and video streaming companies, demanding a fairly . 2020-12-15 18:47:22
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Space X Gets $886 Million From FCC To Put Very Small Dent In U.S. Broadband Gaps For a country that likes to talk about "being number one" a lot, that's sure not reflected in the United States' broadband networks, or the broadban. 2020-12-15 15:37:41
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Eighteen Sheriff's Deputies Waited 500 Yards Away While A Burglar Terrorized A 70-Year-Old Disabled Man I will faithfully serve and protect my community… - A Hippocratic Oath for Policing, the National Police Foundation To Protec. 2020-12-15 12:54:31
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Owner of 'Derby Pie' Trademark Sues Newspaper For Using The Term, Publishing Recipe Long-time Techdirt readers may recall that the "Derby Pie", a notable desert sold in Kentucky chiefly around the time of The Kentucky Derby, has bee. 2020-12-15 05:01:07
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Two Studies Show Giving Military Gear To Cops Doesn't Result In Lower Crime Rates One of President Trump's main goals while in office was to roll back anything his predecessor had put in place. One of his earliest executive orders. 2020-12-14 23:01:50
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The Cost Of Broadband Is Too Damned High How much do consumers pay for internet service in the United States? The question might seem relatively simple, but the answer has stymied the feder. 2020-12-14 21:07:39
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District Court Rejects CDT's Challenge Of Trump's Ridiculous Executive Order On Section 230 Back in May, you may recall, Donald Trump issued his silly executive order on Section 230 in response to Twitter adding a couple fact checks to blat. 2020-12-14 19:48:32
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USA Today Publishes Yet Another Bogus OpEd Against 230, Completely Misrepresents The Law Another day, another op-ed that totally misrepresents Section 230. This one comes from USA Today, and is written by faux-conservative Rachel Bovard,. 2020-12-14 18:37:30
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Consumer Groups Say The FCC Just Blew $9 Billion To Deliver Broadband To Already Served Rich People The FCC last week held a reverse auction to dole out $9 billion to, purportedly, improve patchy U.S. broadband. But consumer groups say the auction . 2020-12-14 15:37:10
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment on our post about Florida State Police raiding the home of COVID wh. 2020-12-13 21:02:02
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Cyberpunk 2077's Stream-Safe Setting Option For Its Music Failed To Keep Streamers Safe In November, as we were finally coming to the day when CD Projekt Red's newest opus, Cyberpunk 2077, was going to be released to the world, we wrote. 2020-12-12 04:41:32
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Apple, Cloudflare Join Forces To Encrypt DNS Each time you visit a website, your browser interacts with a domain name system (DNS) resolver that converts web addresses to an IP address understo. 2020-12-12 01:58:05
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Apple, Cloudfare Join Forces To Encrypt DNS Each time you visit a website, your browser interacts with a domain name system (DNS) resolver that converts web addresses to an IP address understo. 2020-12-11 22:39:48
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Can Broadband Policy Help Create A More Equitable And inclusive Economy And Society Instead Of The Reverse? 25 years ago, then NTIA Administrator Larry Irving warned that the rising importance of the internet had the downside of creating what he coined a &. 2020-12-11 21:02:32
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House Passes PACER Bill As Budget Office Says It Will Cost Less Than $1 Million A Year To Provide Free Access To Court Documents We're one step closer to free access to federal court documents. The House has passed the Open Courts Act of 2020, moving it on to the Senate, which. 2020-12-11 20:20:40
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Supreme Court Says Muslim Men Can Sue The FBI For Placing Them On The No-Fly List For Refusing To Become Informants The FBI really enjoys its take on the War on Terror. Starting with the hassling of Muslims at airports and border entries, the FBI cultivates a larg. 2020-12-11 18:45:01
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Deep Dive Shows FCC's Covid Response Was Largely Theatrical Nonsense Back in March, the Trump FCC put on a big show about a new "Keep America Connected Pledge" to help broadband users during COVID. In it, the FCC prou. 2020-12-11 15:43:29
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Nintendo Hates You: DMCA Takedowns Of Game Music Continue While Nintendo Offers No Legit Way To Listen Well, it's been a measurable amount of time, so we have yet another example of Nintendo doing the Nintendo, which is best described as depriving its. 2020-12-11 04:59:32
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Tillis Release Details Of His Felony Streaming Bill; A Weird Gift To Hollywood At The Expense Of Taxpayers Earlier today, we wrote about reports detailing the latest attempt to push through a bill to make streaming copyright-covered works online a possibl. 2020-12-11 00:59:07
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As A Parting Shot, Tulsi Gabbard Teams Up With Paul Gosar To Introduce Yet Another Unconstitutional Attack On Section 230 Back in October, Reps. Tulsi Gabbard (who is leaving Congress in a few weeks) and Paul Gosar (whose had six of his own siblings tell voters that the. 2020-12-10 22:54:55
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AZ GOP Goes Full Bullshit: Claims It took Down Violence-Inciting Tweet Over Copyright Concerns If you're looking for what the meltdown of a major political institution looks like in real time, you need look only to how the GOP is behaving in t. 2020-12-10 21:48:02
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Not This Again: Senator Tillis Tries To Slide Dangerous Felony Streaming Bill Into Must Pass Government Funding Bill We've documented that Senator Thom Tillis is working on a massive copyright reform bill for which he's asked stakeholders for input (we provided som. 2020-12-10 18:40:36
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Stupid Cable TV Retrans Feuds And Blackouts Make Their Way To Streaming TV For the last decade or so, U.S. cable TV customers have been plagued by a steady parade of content blackouts as cable providers and broadcasters bic. 2020-12-10 15:30:54
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TSA Oversight Says Agency's Suspicionless Surveillance Program Is Worthless And The TSA Can't Prove It Isn't The TSA's "Quiet Skies" program continues to suffer under scrutiny. When details first leaked out about the TSA's suspicionless surveillance program. 2020-12-10 12:31:17
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Nintendo Plays 'Control Inception', Cancelling Splatoon Broadcast After Teams Protest Canceling Smash Bros. Tourney If you're one of what I assume are zillions of folks who come here for my rants about Nintendo, I owe you an apology. While I'm usually pretty good . 2020-12-10 04:59:27
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Content Moderation Case Study: Scammers Targeting Scrabble Chat (2020) Summary: In the spring of 2020, Mattel and Hasbro announced that the official mobile version of the game Scrabble would no longer be the game produc. 2020-12-10 01:00:30
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Open Season: FTC & 48 Attorneys General File Separate Antitrust Lawsuits Against Facebook Everyone knew that this was coming eventually, but on Wednesday two separate antitrust lawsuits were filed against Facebook. First, the FTC filed a . 2020-12-09 23:01:55
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The FCC, 2.5 GHz Spectrum, And The Tribal Priority Window: Something Positive Amid The COVID-19 Pandemic Never has “necessity is the mother of invention” rung more true than in trying to get high speed broadband to Native Americans. Long on . 2020-12-09 21:19:25
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Daily Deal: Body Glove Waterproof Activity Tracker The Body Glove Waterproof Activity Tracker has a water-proof construction that enables you to use it during swimming or any watersport activity. Thi. 2020-12-09 19:53:56
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German Court Orders Encrypted Email Service Tutanota To Backdoor One Account A legal requirement to add backdoors to encrypted systems for "lawful access" has been discussed for many years. Last month, the EU became the lates. 2020-12-09 19:53:56
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GOP Confirms Unqualified Simington to FCC With Eye On Crippling Biden FCC The Senate today voted 49-46 Tuesday afternoon along strict party lines to appoint Trump ally NTIA advisor Nathan Simington to the FCC. Simington is. 2020-12-09 15:30:57
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DHS Inspector General Is Going To Take A Look At The DHS's Purchase Of Cell Location Data From Data Brokers DHS components are buying up cell location data from third parties to track down undocumented immigrants and whoever else ICE and CBP might be inter. 2020-12-09 12:27:38
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Apple's Failure To Ensure Backwards Compatibility In Big Sur Leaves Developers Quite Sour When there's a major OS upgrade, like Apple's recent Big Sur MacOS release, you would hope that an effort was made to ensure backwards compatibility. 2020-12-09 06:18:44
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Trump Makes It Official: He's Going To Pull Military Funding, Because Congress Won't Kill The Open Internet There were some questions as to whether or not Trump would actually go through with his threat to veto the National Defense Authorization Act, which. 2020-12-09 00:03:17
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Techdirt Podcast Episode 265: The Future Of US Broadband The pandemic and associated lockdowns have underlined the incredible importance of broadband, and the many problems with it in America. This w. 2020-12-08 22:44:19
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Patriot Act Used By The FBI To Collect Internet Browsing Data, Contradicting Claims Made To Oversight The NSA shut down its bulk phone records collection -- authorized under Section 215 -- after it became apparent it wasn't worth the effort. Reforms . 2020-12-08 19:50:32
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Facing Massive Subscriber Defections AT&T Chooses: Rate Hikes & New, Bogus Fees AT&T's had a bit of a tough stretch lately. Saddled by massive debt from its $200 billion Time Warner and DirecTV mergers in recent years, the . 2020-12-08 18:54:47
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ACLU Tells Congress: Do Not Add Copyright Trolling Bill To Government Funding Bill Last week we wrote about an effort in Congress, which appeared to be succeeding, to try to sneak through a controversial (and likely unconstitutiona. 2020-12-08 15:34:42
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Massachusetts Poised To Become The Next State To (Temporarily) Ban Facial Recognition Tech Another state is looking to join California in banning facial recognition tech by law enforcement. Massachusetts legislators have just passed a bill. 2020-12-08 04:40:29
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Florida State Police Raid Home Of COVID Whistleblower, Point Guns At Her & Her Family, Seize All Her Computer Equipment This is insane. Earlier this year, we wrote about Rebekah Jones, the data scientist working for Florida, who put together that state's COVID-19 data. 2020-12-08 00:53:43
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Provision Added To Defense Bill That Would Make Federal Officers Policing Protests Identify Themselves We've heard a lot about the latest defense authorization bill in recent days, thanks mainly to President Trump's (empty) threats to withhold funding. 2020-12-07 22:53:28
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Colorado's Broadband Internet Doesn't Have to Be Rocky It's 2020. The Internet should be reliable and powerful regardless of where you live, but that's not the case for millions of Americans. In many way. 2020-12-07 21:20:07
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Georgia Court Streams Ridiculous 'Kraken' Lawsuit Hearing On YouTube; Then Tells People They Can't Repost Recordings We have lots of concerns about court transparency, and how more transparent court systems would be nice. One of the more interesting consequences of. 2020-12-07 20:01:53
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Daily Deal: Kroma Pro Plan Perhaps you're a consultant or salesperson creating presentations and proposals. Maybe you're a marketing manager looking for novel creative assets,. 2020-12-07 19:43:13
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Federal Court System Pushes Back Against Free Access To Court Documents Never underestimate the desperation of a government entity being asked to manage its money better. After years of mismanaging the millions of dollar. 2020-12-07 19:00:37
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AT&T, HBO Put Another Bullet In Antiquated Theatrical Release Windows Among the dated and dumb business concepts exposed as folly during the pandemic is the traditional Hollywood film release window, which typically in. 2020-12-07 15:02:20
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad with a sentiment I think we all share: A time will come -- not right away, n. 2020-12-06 21:06:39
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Reform The DMCA? OK, But Only If It's Done Really, Really Carefully The DMCA is a weird law. It's comprised of two almost completely unrelated provisions: Section 512, with its platform safe harbors, and Section 1201. 2020-12-05 04:43:18
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Content Moderation Case Study: Google's Photo App Tags Photos Of Black People As 'Gorillas' (2015) Summary: In May 2015, Google rolled out its "Google Photos" service. This service allowed users to store their images in Google's cloud and share th. 2020-12-05 01:02:39
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Nancy Pelosi Sells Out The Public: Agrees To Put Massive Copyright Reform In 'Must Pass' Spending Bill I know everyone is focused on Trump's attempt to take away Section 230 in the NDAA, but an equally important issue is that members of Congress have . 2020-12-04 23:01:33
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With Simington Vote, The GOP And Big Telecom Maneuver To Cripple The Biden FCC We've noted at length how the GOP is rushing this week to appoint Trump ally Nathan Simington to the FCC. Simington, you'll recall, wrote Trump's ri. 2020-12-04 21:34:41
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The Trump FCC Has Failed To Protect Low-Income Americans During A Health Crisis As America struggles with a deadly and historic health crisis, millions of Americans risk getting kicked offline due to economic hardship. At a time. 2020-12-04 21:05:28
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Daily Deal: The iOS 14 And SwiftUI Bootcamp Bundle The iOS 14 and SwiftUI Bootcamp Bundle is here to help you master iOS14 and SwiftUI so you can develop Apple apps and widgets. If you're not familia. 2020-12-04 20:04:20
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