Mike Masnick / is on Nostr

Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: bit.ly/protocolnotpla...

[bridged from mmasnick.bsky.social on Bluesky by Bridgy Fed]

Last Notes

2025-04-23 21:17:02

The digitally illiterate don't know what digital literacy means, which is one of the reasons we need more digital literacy.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:emhyi4kljodgqlusdsopgfgd/post/3lnj2bpu7rs2o
#nevent1q…kee2

2025-04-16 21:44:39

So, uh, what specifically are they appealing? That she ordered discovery? Is that appealable?
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/post/3lmxiqptc422m
#nevent1q…jesn

2025-04-01 20:42:27

Next time defenders of the administration claim they're going after universities for "antisemitism" feels like someone should point to this: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Scrambling to hide “wokeness” ...

2025-03-27 19:10:58

I wrote something about the secret police kidnapping and disappearing students over their op-eds, and wondering what happened to all those people screaming about the "free speech crisis on campus."
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...
Trump’s Secret Police Are Now ...

2025-03-16 23:04:13

Okay, muting this thread as it's overtaken my notifications.

2025-03-16 20:16:12

The MAGA faithful have to claim that others are "scared" of their "ideas" rather than the reality which is "nah, dude, everyone thinks you and your friends are dipshits, and we don't want to hang around the places you go, because you made them icky and stupid."

2024-11-28 03:50:47

Wait, what, did I just have to explain live on air to @jonathancapehart.bsky.social how to pronounce Dogecoin?
I think I did.

2024-10-22 20:24:51

Trying to read Taibbi's latest & it's putting me to sleep. It leads with a potentially incendiary claim and then never actually gets around to backing it up. It just wanders aimlessly, throwing out little bits of red meat without context in a manner designed to make people think there's a conspiracy

2024-10-22 20:04:01

So Jim Jordan and Mike Lee are accusing Lina Khan of Hatch Act violations, but noticeably don't seem concerned with the FCC's Brendan Carr literally writing a chapter of Project 2025 and writing WSJ opeds against Kamala Harris? judiciary.house.gov/media/press-...
Chairman Jordan and Ranking Me...

2024-10-22 19:54:15

MSCHF is at it again.
https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreicfnkx4pseyqb3fr37ep434n2igzc5b2kszvjcbcx7p234jx77qhi

2024-10-02 06:13:35

Someone should give Josh Johnson his own TV show. Every time I see him, it's so good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scpr...
Mark Robinson Can’t Stop Comme...

2024-09-24 04:07:49

Why yes, your post is very misleading, as the Community Note notes.
But I guarantee that it will be taken as faith among the MAGA faithful that LA and New Orleans didn't report their crime data, even as it is just outrightly false.
https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreihy5vbhwhl7hcechzfcnplbwd7zernjilfyuev32xs4bt5bnwlijq

2024-08-06 16:21:47

Some personal news! I'm excited to be joining the Bluesky board to support Jay and the team in achieving their vision of a decentralized, protocol-based social internet.
bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Bluesky Welcomes Mike Masnick ...

2024-07-17 23:03:42

Pocketcasts, which used to top out at 3x speed, has now enabled up to 4x speed and I am so excited.
https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreieiwyyi7vonbdt34y67sdruxa2boqls2zey253powzre5jopxjmie

2024-06-10 23:52:44

Cool, cool, just the wife of a Supreme Court justice appearing to say she's going to sue the media for reporting on her.
Perhaps a Justice might want to explain to her how the First Amendment works?
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreiaes445eolkgahf2nfjmnnizabw6cwqnr65cgkdcjeq4epv64xsxu

2024-05-22 00:52:00

*sigh* I just tried bridging my account from here to Mastodon using @ap.brid.gy, and now people over there are going on about how I'm supporting tech oligarchs like Jack Dorsey. I'm trying to not get fed up with the ActivityPub world & kneejerk nonsense, but sometimes they make it tough.

2024-05-21 21:51:27

Somehow I've never gone to XOXO even though I kept wanting to. And this is the last year it'll happen (after a long hiatus) and it looks like timing wise I probably can't go again. But... if you can go, please check it out. Always looked like an amazing event with great people.