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2025-06-12 17:52:28

Daily Deal: Stone River eLearning
They say you should never stop learning, and at Stone River, that mantra is a way of life. Through this subscription, you’ll get full access to 800+ courses and 4,800 hours of online learning, covering everything from iOS mobile development to graphic design. Plus, you’ll get a range of VIP perks, including unlimited eBooks and […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/12/daily-deal-stone-river-elearning-5/

2025-06-10 19:12:32

Columbia’s Capitulation Backfired Spectacularly As Trump Admin Threatens Its Accreditation
Appeasing bullies never works. Not only does it reveal your willingness to abandon principles, but bullies will never be satisfied — they’ll always demand more. Columbia University is learning this lesson the hard way. The school quickly caved to Trump’s demands to crack down on pro-Palestinian protests and discipline faculty. Meanwhile, Harvard stood up and […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/10/columbias-capitulation-backfired-spectacularly-as-trump-admin-threatens-its-accreditation/

2025-06-03 22:32:28

Illinois Lawmakers Ban Police From Ticketing And Fining Students For Minor Infractions In School
This story was originally published by ProPublica & the Chicago Tribune. Republished under ProPublica’s CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Illinois legislators on Wednesday passed a law to explicitly prevent police from ticketing and fining students for minor misbehavior at school, ending a practice that harmed students across the state. The new law would apply to all public schools, including charters. It […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/03/illinois-lawmakers-ban-police-from-ticketing-and-fining-students-for-minor-infractions-in-school/

2025-05-20 17:46:16

Remember When MAGA Thought A Few Stern Emails From The Gov’t Made Twitter A State Actor? About That…
Here’s a question about the First Amendment and social media companies that used to just be in the realm of crazy law school hypotheticals: What makes social media sites “state actors” subject to constitutional constraints? For years, we heard from some that merely talking to government officials was enough — at least according to Vivek […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/20/remember-when-maga-thought-a-few-stern-emails-from-the-govt-made-twitter-a-state-actor-about-that/

2025-05-13 19:14:56

Meta Threatens To Pull Facebook And Instagram Out Of Nigeria Over $290 Million Fine Imposed For Violation Of Local Privacy Laws
It’s hardly a secret that Meta is an unpleasant company. That’s reflected both in terms of what happens behind closed doors, and its actions in the market. Some of its attempts to bully nations or even large economic blocks are well documented. But its threats outside Western markets are just as reprehensible, though less well […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/13/meta-threatens-to-pull-facebook-and-instagram-out-of-nigeria-over-290-million-fine-imposed-for-violation-of-local-privacy-laws/

2025-05-11 19:00:43

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, we’ve got a double winner taking first place for both insightful and funny. It’s Strawb with a comment about Darren Beattie embracing the Twitter Files playbook: Trump: “We will stop waste, fraud and abuse in the goverment!” Beattie: ‘Starts a project that wastes government time and money, and creates a fraudulent narrative that […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/11/funniest-most-insightful-comments-of-the-week-at-techdirt-159/

2025-05-02 22:35:24

Texas Bookstores Push Back Against Bill That Would Allow Them To Be Sued Over ‘Harmful’ Content
The free, independent state of Texas continues to make it clear it only respects certain rights and freedoms and only those that adhere to the Holy Trinity of guns, God, and, um… Nazi-adjacent Cybertruck manufacturers. A number of efforts have been made to remove books from schools and public libraries in recent years. None of […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/02/texas-bookstores-push-back-against-bill-that-would-allow-them-to-be-sued-over-harmful-content/

2025-04-28 20:51:45

FBI Arrests Wisconsin Judge For Allegedly Obstructing The Arrest Of An Undocumented Immigrant
Oh hooray. Another part of our new normal under Trump 2.0. Here’s the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel with the gory details: Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was charged April 25 with two felonies on allegations of trying to help an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest after he appeared in her courtroom. According to a 13-page complaint, Dugan, 65, is accused […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/fbi-arrests-wisconsin-judge-for-allegedly-obstructing-the-arrest-of-an-undocumented-immigrant/

2025-04-28 12:28:45

Ohio Could Be The Latest State To Pass ‘Right To Repair’ Law, Showcasing Broad, Bipartisan Support
State laws attempting to make it cheaper and easier to repair your own technology continue to gain steam. With the recent introduction of a new “right to repair” law in Wisconsin, groups like U.S. PIRG note that all 50 U.S. states have now at least introduced such bills. But so far only Massachusetts, New York, Minnesota, Colorado, California, and Oregon have actually […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/ohio-could-be-the-latest-state-to-pass-right-to-repair-law-showcasing-broad-bipartisan-support/

2025-04-23 20:50:21

Intelligence Assessment Shows Trump Admin’s Venezuelan Gang War Claims Are Lies
For a long time, we’ve believed no president would dare enact the Alien Enemies Act again, not after it was abused to send more than 100,000 residents and citizens of Japanese descent to US concentration camps during the Second World War. Even the administrative power grabs and uptick in bigotry that followed the 9/11 attacks […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/23/intelligence-assessment-shows-trump-admins-venezuelan-gang-war-claims-are-lies/

2025-04-18 03:18:16

Report: Trump Reportedly To Do Away With IRS Direct File Program For No Discernible Reason
For three years now, a select group of states have had a pilot program through the IRS for its Direct File program. For years and years, companies like Intuit had gotten away with all kinds of shady tactics designed to lure people in with the promise of free tax prep filing using online software, only […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/17/report-trump-reportedly-to-do-away-with-irs-direct-file-program-for-no-discernible-reason/

2025-04-17 17:54:08

Daily Deal: Apple Watch Wireless Charger Keychain
The Apple Watch Wireless Charger Keychain is the perfect accessory for Apple Watch users on-the-go. With a built-in 950mAh lithium-ion battery, it can charge all series of Apple Watch. Its portable, pocket-size design makes it easy to carry around while exercising or traveling. With four LED lights indicating the status of the charge, it’s easy […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/17/daily-deal-apple-watch-wireless-charger-keychain-4/

2025-04-16 20:37:34

Techdirt Podcast Episode 414: Disruptive Tech Solutions For Reproductive Health
Support us on Patreon » Many people don’t think of reproductive health and reproductive rights as tech issues, but they very much are — moreso than ever in a post-Dobbs America. The internet is vital to communication and spreading information around reproductive health care, while abortion drugs are changing the very nature of what reproductive rights […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/16/techdirt-podcast-episode-414-disruptive-tech-solutions-for-reproductive-health/

2025-04-12 02:39:35

A Newsletter Writer Reflects On Leaving Substack
Many of you may be familiar with the brilliant writer A.R. Moxon, writer of the excellent “The Reframe” newsletter. Last year, he moved The Reframe from Substack to Ghost, and has now written about that experience. It’s an interesting read that we thought many here might enjoy as well, and Moxon was kind enough to […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/11/a-newsletter-writer-reflects-on-leaving-substack/

2025-04-07 12:30:01

When Good People Make A Mistake They Try To Fix It; If They Don’t, They’re Not Good People
When most people make a serious mistake that harms someone else, they try to fix it. That’s basic human decency. But when the Trump administration admits to “mistakenly” trafficking someone with protected status to an El Salvador slave labor camp, their response is to mock the judge who ordered them to try to fix it. […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/07/when-good-people-make-a-mistake-they-try-to-fix-it-if-they-dont-theyre-not-good-people/

2025-04-04 17:52:55

Daily Deal: The Complete Cisco Training Bundle
The Complete Cisco Training Bundle has 6 courses to help you get ready to become certified. Courses cover al you need to know as a CCNA, CCEA, and more. It’s on sale for $40. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce. A portion of all sales from Techdirt Deals helps support […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/04/daily-deal-the-complete-cisco-training-bundle-8/

2025-04-01 20:30:54

Techdirt Podcast Episode 413: Ron Wyden On Chutzpah
Support us on Patreon » If you’re a Techdirt reader, you’re probably familiar with Senator Ron Wyden. In January, he released his new book It Takes Chutzpah, offering up a call for political boldness that feels even more relevant with every day that passes. This week, Senator Wyden joins Mike on the podcast to talk about […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/01/techdirt-podcast-episode-413-ron-wyden-on-chutzpah/

2025-04-01 19:12:11

Sorry, You Don’t Get To Declare ‘Case Closed’ On War Crime Planning Over Signal
Remember when government officials discussing sensitive information over unsecured channels was treated as a national crisis worthy of endless investigations? Apparently, those days are over. While Hillary Clinton’s email server spawned years of investigations and Attorney General Pam Bondi is still trying to rehash it, the White House wants us to simply forget about top […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/01/sorry-you-dont-get-to-declare-case-closed-on-war-crime-planning-over-signal/

2025-03-31 20:44:22

The Real Cost Of DOGE: Musk’s Government Cuts Creating Massive New Expenses
Imagine you had pretty much unlimited power over the government and wanted to save taxpayers’ money. You could: Or you could do what Elon Musk did with DOGE: declare everything wasteful, start firing people at random, and claim you’re saving billions through pure destruction. It’s long been clear that Elon has never considered Chesterton’s Fence […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/31/the-real-cost-of-doge-musks-government-cuts-creating-massive-new-expenses/

2025-03-31 19:05:37

The Reckoning At The Town Hall
The footage is hard to watch—not because it’s shocking, but because it isn’t. Because we’ve seen this coming. Because we’ve written it down. Because it’s what happens when performance fully replaces governance, and people are asked to believe that “DOGE” and “efficiency” and “Musk” now constitute a new political grammar. Rep. Victoria Spartz stands in front of her constituents at […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/31/the-reckoning-at-the-town-hall/

2025-03-27 17:54:51

Trump Continues Tanking Civil Rights In Hopes Of Scoring A First-Round Autocracy In The Next Election
The beatings will apparently continue, whether or not morale improves. The Trump Administration’s latest move from far-right towards open fascism involves, unsurprisingly, the gutting of more government components tasked with ensuring the federal government doesn’t treat civil rights like privileges only afforded to those who can afford them… or anyone else willing to lick the […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/trump-continues-tanking-civil-rights-in-hopes-of-scoring-a-first-round-autocracy-in-the-next-election/

2025-03-25 17:45:40

Daily Deal: The Ultimate Python & Artificial Intelligence Bundle
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https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/25/daily-deal-the-ultimate-python-artificial-intelligence-bundle-6/

2025-03-22 23:24:07

Pentagon Anti-DEI Purge Leads To More Erasure Of Our Shared History
The only silver lining in just how stupid this supposed anti-DEI purge of government records has become is that it appears the stupids doing the stupid are now finally starting to realize just how stupid it has become. Stemming from one of Trump’s many executive orders, one which instructed the government to essentially purge its […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/pentagon-anti-dei-purge-leads-to-more-erasure-of-our-shared-history/

2025-03-13 22:32:27

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The TAKE IT DOWN Takedown
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/13/ctrl-alt-speech-the-take-it-down-takedown/

2025-03-12 18:05:51

RFK Jr. Blames Malnutrition For Measles Outbreak’s Severe Illnesses And Deaths
Let’s stipulate something before we dive into this post so that there is no misunderstanding: the rise of the anti-vax movement did not begin with Donald Trump’s foray into American politics. It’s been around since well before 2016, slowly but surely gaining momentum among a strange combination of West Coast liberal elites and a certain […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/12/rfk-jr-blames-malnutrition-for-measles-outbreaks-severe-illnesses-and-deaths/

2025-03-10 19:57:24

Trump’s Anti-DEI Efforts Are Stupidly Erasing Aspects Of American History
Back before the plan to destroy our democracy got started in earnest, and back before the pandemic that dominated our lives for several years (whether we thought it should or not), was a time when we were having quaint, albeit silly, arguments about confederate monuments and whether they should be removed. My memory is good […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/10/trumps-anti-dei-efforts-are-stupidly-erasing-aspects-of-american-history/

2025-03-09 19:00:55

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad with a comment on our post about Techdirt’s focus as of late, in response to another comment asking for recommendations of other good outlets: Wired has been pretty much head of the pack at covering Musk’s government takeover. ProPublica might be the best […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/09/funniest-most-insightful-comments-of-the-week-at-techdirt-151/

2025-03-08 20:00:30

This Week In Techdirt History: March 2nd – 8th
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, Senator Thom Tillis followed up his awful patent reform push with an awful copyright reform push, while bogus automated copyright claims by CBS were blocking a bunch of Super Tuesday speeches, and Senators officially began their push to undermine encryption and Section 230 with the EARN IT act. […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/08/this-week-in-techdirt-history-march-2nd-8th/

2025-03-08 03:39:56

No, Phil Spencer, Having AI Mock Up An Old Game Is Not The Same As Preserving It
We really need to stop pointing to Artificial Intelligence as some panacea, with all the world’s problems one well-constructed AI prompt away from resolution. That’s especially true when those same problems have much more simple and accessible answers. The preservation of video games has been a hobbyhorse of mine for some time, one which can […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/07/no-phil-spencer-having-ai-mock-up-an-old-game-is-not-the-same-as-preserving-it/

2025-03-07 23:46:15

The Uberization Of Nursing Sees The Usual Problems For Gig Workers, But Here Comes ‘Uber For Armed Guards’ Anyway
Uber has only been around for 15 years, but its underlying business model of on-demand labor, organized online, has been applied widely around the world in many industries. That’s despite concerns that gig workers get a raw deal, since they do the same work as employees, but without the protections and benefits the latter enjoy. […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/07/the-uberization-of-nursing-sees-the-usual-problems-for-gig-workers-but-here-comes-uber-for-armed-guards-anyway/

2025-03-07 21:19:04

Justice Alito Takes Time From His Leisurely Schedule To Complain About A Cop Losing A Lawsuit
The Supreme Court moves at a glacial pace. Sure, it’s got a bit more to do now with the Trump Administration creating new constitutional crises on a daily basis, but for the most part, it’s willing to sit back and let cases pile up until the conservative majority can undermine rights by issuing an 82-page […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/07/justice-alito-takes-time-from-his-leisurely-schedule-to-complain-about-a-cop-losing-a-lawsuit/

2025-03-07 19:07:54

Dear Democrats: It Would Be Nice If You Could Lead, And Not Off A Cliff
We really should have two major parties committed to upholding the Constitution. But at the moment we seem to have none. Because not only have the Republicans been captured by the corrupt fascism of Trump but, instead of standing against the grotesque assault on our democracy Trump has been perpetrating non-stop since January 20, Democrats […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/07/dear-democrats-it-would-be-nice-if-you-could-lead-and-not-off-a-cliff/

2025-03-07 19:02:41

Daily Deal: MagStack Foldable 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station with Floating Stand (2-Pack)
MagStack Foldable 3-in-1 is the perfect on-the-go wireless charging station that also transforms into a floating stand for smartphone FaceTime or video playback while charging. This portable design featuring 3 wireless charging spots, enables charging for up to 3 devices simultaneously, including iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods Pro, AirPods with Wireless Charging Case, other Qi-compatible Android […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/07/daily-deal-magstack-foldable-3-in-1-wireless-charging-station-with-floating-stand-2-pack/

2025-03-07 17:26:39

Magistrate Judge: If Geofence Warrants Are Unconstitutional, So Are Cell Tower Dumps
The Fifth Circuit’s unlikely decision to side with a constitutional right that wasn’t the Second Amendment is starting to trickle down to the lower levels of the federal court system. Last August, the Fifth Circuit bucked its own cop-friendly trend by ruling that geofence warrants — warrants that demand massive amounts of geolocation data when […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/07/magistrate-judge-if-geofence-warrants-are-unconstitutional-so-are-cell-tower-dumps/

2025-03-07 13:24:21

Study: Popular Low-Income Broadband Program Killed By Trumplicans Saved Taxpayers More Money Than It Cost
Last year Trumplicans killed a popular program that provided poor people with $30 off of their monthly broadband bill. The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) was unsurprisingly very popular, with more than 23 million Americans benefitting at its peak. At the time, the GOP claimed they were simply looking to save money. The real reason, […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/07/study-popular-low-income-broadband-program-killed-by-trumplicans-saved-taxpayers-more-money-than-it-cost/

2025-03-07 03:24:40

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: E Pluribus Chaos
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/06/ctrl-alt-speech-e-pluribus-chaos/

2025-03-06 23:50:16

Make It A Trend Part 2: EA (!!!) Releases Source Code For Four ‘Command & Conquer’ Games
In our recent discussion about Valve releasing the source code for Team Fortress 2, you should have noticed that that post was headlined as a “Part 1.” This post is Part 2 and is arguably way more impressive and important for a couple of reasons we’ll get into. But as a reminder, the entire reason […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/06/make-it-a-trend-part-2-ea-releases-source-code-for-four-command-conquer-games/

2025-03-06 21:42:31

Detroit PD Sued Over Yet Another Bogus Arrest Based On An Unverified Facial Recognition ‘Match’
The city of Detroit finally revamped the rules for police department use of facial recognition tech last July. We’ll have to wait and see whether adding guardrails will result in fewer false arrests, but what may end up being too little definitely arrived too late for a Detroit woman who was falsely arrested by the […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/06/detroit-pd-sued-over-yet-another-bogus-arrest-based-on-an-unverified-facial-recognition-match/

2025-03-06 20:00:40

Alito “Stunned” By Court Exercising Judicial Power He Championed & Expanded Just Months Ago
Here’s a puzzle: When does a Supreme Court justice believe courts can review executive branch decisions? The answer, at least for Justice Alito, appears to be “whenever a Democrat is president, but only then.” There is plenty of commentary making the rounds regarding yesterday’s 5-4 Supreme Court decision confirming that of course a judge can […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/06/alito-stunned-by-court-exercising-judicial-power-he-championed-expanded-just-months-ago/

2025-03-06 18:49:13

Georgia Legislators The Latest To Criminalize Being A Librarian
The hate and stupidity continues. Emboldened by Trump’s first presidential term and his subsequent, extremely destructive return to the Oval Office, legislators with an unacknowledged preference for fascism are pushing further and further, comfortable in the uncomfortable fact that the only thing capable of stopping them is their own shame. And since they don’t have […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/06/georgia-legislators-the-latest-to-criminalize-being-a-librarian/

2025-03-06 18:44:01

Daily Deal: The 2025 Business & Leadership Skills Bundle
The 2025 Business & Leadership Skills Bundle has 5 courses to help you learn skills you need to advance your career. Courses cover strategic planning, leadership styles, marketing communications, the art of professional poise and politeness, office politics, and more. It’s on sale for $25. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce. […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/06/daily-deal-the-2025-business-leadership-skills-bundle-2/

2025-03-06 17:21:16

Trump Promises To Abuse Take It Down Act For Censorship, Just As We Warned
During his address to Congress this week, Donald Trump endorsed the Take It Down Act while openly declaring his plans to abuse it: “And I’m going to use that bill for myself too, if you don’t mind, because nobody gets treated worse than I do online, nobody.” (You might think a former president openly declaring […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/06/trump-promises-to-abuse-take-it-down-act-for-censorship-just-as-we-warned/

2025-03-06 13:18:55

Ontario Premier Doug Ford Wisely Rips Up Contract With Starlink He Never Should Have Signed In The First Place
After some initial waffling, Ontario Premier Doug Ford has finally shredded his Providence’s $100 million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite broadband service. Like many politicians (and shitty c-tier comedians turned podcasters), Ford was apparently tricked into thinking that the expensive, capacity-constrained broadband service was a sort of magic bullet for rural broadband access. But […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/06/ontario-premier-doug-ford-wisely-rips-up-contract-with-starlink-he-never-should-have-signed-in-the-first-place/

2025-03-06 04:05:00

Make It A Trend Part 1: Valve Releases ‘Team Fortress 2’ Source Code
One of the more frustrating aspects of any conversation we have around the preservation of video games, something that is simply not being done for the most part today for the vast majority of titles created, is how easy and simple the ultimate fix is. It isn’t a secret. It’s not an arduous process. It […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/05/make-it-a-trend-part-1-valve-releases-team-fortress-2-source-code/

2025-03-05 23:28:19

Incoming CBS Boss Jeff Shell Pressuring Underlings To Settle With Trump, Trample Journalistic Freedom, And Kiss Authoritarian Ass
Last October, Donald Trump sued CBS claiming (falsely) that a “60 Minutes” interview of Kamala Harris had been “deceitfully edited” to her benefit (they simply shortened some of her answers for brevity, as news outlets often do). As Mike explored, the lawsuit tramples the First Amendment and editorial discretion. At the same time, Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/05/incoming-cbs-boss-jeff-shell-pressuring-underlings-to-settle-with-trump-trample-journalistic-freedom-and-kiss-authoritarian-ass/

2025-03-05 21:04:14

The Manifesto Of The Cognitive Revolution
My project thus far has been to educate you, to help you renormalize history from a common ethical center. To show you what should be abundantly clear: that simple truths, all around us, reveal things that are blatantly obvious. That we are now ruled by liars, cheaters, and men with an unbounded appetite for power. […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/05/the-manifesto-of-the-cognitive-revolution/

2025-03-05 18:58:13

Trump Brings Back Free Speech By [Checks Notes] Threatening To Imprison Protestors And Expose Journalist Sources
It is almost difficult to believe this is a real thing that happened with the President of the United States, but here’s what actually happened on Tuesday. In the morning, Donald Trump threatened to imprison protesters and defund any university that allows certain protests. Then, that same evening, he stood before Congress and declared — […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/05/trump-brings-back-free-speech-by-checks-notes-threatening-to-imprison-protestors-and-expose-journalist-sources/

2025-03-05 18:48:58

Daily Deal: The Complete 2025 Microsoft Tech Training Super Bundle
The Complete 2025 Microsoft Tech Training Super Bundle has 11 courses to help you level up your Microsoft IT skill set. Courses cover Microsoft 365 identity management, Azure administration, cybersecurity, and more. It’s on sale for $59.97. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce. A portion of all sales from Techdirt […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/05/daily-deal-the-complete-2025-microsoft-tech-training-super-bundle/

2025-03-05 17:27:21

Trump Administration Stands Down Cyberwarriors While It Gets Back To Buddying Up With Putin
I don’t know if Trump believes this is what will finally score him a Nobel Peace Prize for him to wave around as proof of his impeccable deal-making skills, but while we wait for the world to get even worse, things are going to get a little less secure here in the United States. Here’s […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/05/trump-administration-stands-down-cyberwarriors-while-it-gets-back-to-buddying-up-with-putin/

2025-03-05 13:29:07

The LA Times’ Political Rating “AI” Is A Silly Joke Aimed At Validating Wealthy Media Ownership’s Inherent Bias
Late last year we wrote about how LA Times billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong confidently announced that he was going to use AI to display “artificial intelligence-generated ratings” of news content, while also providing “AI-generated lists of alternative political views on that issue” under each article. After he got done firing a lot of longstanding LA […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/05/the-la-times-political-rating-ai-is-a-silly-joke-aimed-at-validating-wealthy-media-ownerships-inherent-bias/

2025-03-05 03:59:16

Pepperdine Sues Netflix Over Trademark In Show’s Fictional Portrayal Of The Lakers
Trademark disputes where it is very clear that the complaining party is actually concerned about something other than customer confusion are always fun. All the more so when the target is a work of fiction, with the supposedly offending content also being fictional. We saw an example of this when a software company sued Warner […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/pepperdine-sues-netflix-over-trademark-in-shows-fictional-portrayal-of-the-lakers/

2025-03-04 23:35:51

What You Should Do
Okay, people. You keep asking me, “Mike, but what should we do?” I am going to condescend to you now, about what you should do. The only resistance worth a damn is the one where you stop calculating the odds and start living your truth without reservation. What separates the merely clever from the genuinely […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/what-you-should-do/

2025-03-04 21:30:20

Techdirt Podcast Episode 409: What Twitter Teaches Us About DOGE
Support us on Patreon » We’re finally getting back into the rhythm of things, and in fact right at this very moment Mike is recording a brand new original episode for next week on the podcast — but this week, we’ve got a cross-post and a special extra treat. Mike recently once again joined Andy Levy […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/techdirt-podcast-episode-409-what-twitter-teaches-us-about-doge/

2025-03-04 20:02:34

Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recognizable plan unfold — a playbook we’re all too familiar with. We’ve seen how technology can be wielded to consolidate power, how institutional guardrails can be circumvented through technical and legal […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/

2025-03-04 18:44:39

After Killing USAID, MAGA’s Solution: Reinventing USAID, But Worse
The recent book “Character Limit” exposes a perfect case study in destructive arrogance: Twitter was already building more sophisticated versions of everything Musk claimed he wanted. But Musk and his sycophants were so convinced of their own brilliance, and so certain everyone at Twitter was an idiot, they didn’t even bother to understand what was […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/after-killing-usaid-magas-solution-reinventing-usaid-but-worse/

2025-03-04 18:39:28

Daily Deal: The All-in-One Super-Sized Ethical Hacking Bundle
To completely understand computer security, it’s vital to step outside the fence and to think outside the box. Computer security is not just about firewalls, Intrusion Prevention Systems, or anti-viruses. It’s also about tricking people into doing whatever a hacker wishes. A secure system, network, or infrastructure is also about informed people. The All-in-One Super-Sized […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/daily-deal-the-all-in-one-super-sized-ethical-hacking-bundle-3/

2025-03-04 17:29:06

Trump’s Anti-‘Woke’ Task Force Is Combining Sloppy Search Terms With Nearly Nonexistent Vetting
Trump’s second term has elevated a bunch of people who have no idea what they’re doing to positions of power where every blunder is just considered to be the acceptable outcome for an administration that likes breaking things even more than it likes moving fast. The Department of Government Efficiency still isn’t an official government […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/trumps-anti-woke-task-force-is-combining-sloppy-search-terms-with-nearly-nonexistent-vetting/

2025-03-04 13:27:13

FCC Boss Brendan Carr ‘Investigating’ Verizon For Not Being Racist Enough
Like many big companies, Verizon eagerly signed up for Trump 2.0 excited to get tax cuts, rubber stamped merger approvals, attacks on organized labor, and oodles of unaccountable subsidies. But as is often the deal with authoritarian zealots (and force-wielding intergalactic warlords with deep-rooted mommy issues), the deal you think you struck can and will […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/fcc-boss-brendan-carr-investigating-verizon-for-not-being-racist-enough/

2025-03-04 04:01:22

Ron Wyden Presses FTC For Disclosure Rules On Ownership Rights Of Digital Purchases
We talk a lot here about the concept of “ownership” of what we spend money on, particularly as it relates to purchases that are digital or have some reliance on internet connectivity. Despite being related, those two categories are actually quite distinct. On the one hand, you have situations where a company may go out […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/03/ron-wyden-presses-ftc-for-disclosure-rules-on-ownership-rights-of-digital-purchases/

2025-03-03 23:32:12

Announcing Otherwise Objectionable: A Podcast Series About The Most Misunderstood Law On The Internet
At a time when Section 230 faces unprecedented threats from all sides — with both major political parties gunning for it, albeit for opposite reasons — understanding this crucial internet law has never been more important. That’s probably why our “Hello! You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Section 230” post remains one of […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/03/announcing-otherwise-objectionable-a-podcast-series-about-the-most-misunderstood-law-on-the-internet/

2025-03-03 21:52:24

What Surviving Cancer Last Year Teaches About What The Nation Is Suffering This Year
You never think the worst thing imaginable can actually happen. But sometimes it does. And when it does there is not a moment to lose coming to terms with it so you can start to do what needs to be done to deal with it. Because whether you are suddenly facing being diagnosed with a […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/03/what-surviving-cancer-last-year-teaches-about-what-the-nation-is-suffering-this-year/

2025-03-03 20:17:33

Trump’s Dept. Of Education Sets Up Online Anti-DEI Bitchfest Portal
The Party of Mooks has ascended to the top tier yet again. We’re all going to pay the price for this, even the mooks that think electing mooks will elevate them from their own mook-hood. Republicans have spent most of the past decade complaining about things like diversity, inclusion, and equitable treatment of American residents […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/03/trumps-dept-of-education-sets-up-online-anti-dei-bitchfest-portal/

2025-03-03 18:46:33

Musk Fires The People Actually Doing What DOGE Pretends To Do
Look, I’m no rocket-building super-genius*, but I have this weird idea that if you want to make an organization more efficient, you might start by talking to the people who are… already making it efficient? A crazy idea, I know. (*Neither are some other people who pretend to be). But Elon Musk had a different […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/03/musk-fires-the-people-actually-doing-what-doge-pretends-to-do/

2025-03-03 18:40:23

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https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/03/daily-deal-the-2025-chatgpt-skills-creativity-bundle/

2025-03-03 17:32:08

South Dakota Lawmakers Dump Bill That Would Have Forced Schools To Post The Ten Commandments
Well, this didn’t last long. For a state as staunchly conservative as South Dakota, this is somewhat of a surprise. But less than a week after a bill mandating the posting of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms was forwarded to a vote by the House committee, the South Dakota House rejected this odious […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/03/south-dakota-lawmakers-dump-bill-that-would-have-forced-schools-to-post-the-ten-commandments/

2025-03-03 13:25:42

15 Republican AGs Urge The Supreme Court To Make Providing Affordable Broadband To Poor People Illegal
The FCC runs an $8 billion federal subsidy program to help bring phone and broadband services to lower income homes and schools called the Universal Service Fund. The program was historically a bipartisan thing, until the extremist Trump administration came to town. Driven by a fake right wing consumer group called “Consumers’ Research,” the Trumplican-stacked Fifth Circuit court […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/03/15-republican-ags-urge-the-supreme-court-to-make-providing-affordable-broadband-to-poor-people-illegal/

2025-03-02 20:00:46

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about US Attorney Ed Martin’s apparent personal intimidation campaign against Trump/Musk rivals: Note the direct association of “putting America first” with the act of adhering to a presidential executive order that can only apply to government employees. Sycophantry to authoritarianism […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/02/funniest-most-insightful-comments-of-the-week-at-techdirt-150/

2025-03-01 21:00:59

This Week In Techdirt History: February 23rd – March 1st
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, a court finally dumped one of Devin Nunes’ ridiculous lawsuits only for him to immediately promise to file another, while Public Citizen weighed in on why the famous cow’s information should be protected under the First Amendment and a watchdog group asked the Congressional Ethics Office to investigate […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/01/this-week-in-techdirt-history-february-23rd-march-1st/

2025-03-01 03:39:41

Ubisoft Repeats Past Mistakes, And Past Successes, In Addressing ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Leak
A couple of years back, we talked about how Ubisoft handled its own accidental leak of the Beyond Good & Evil remaster to its subscribers. Months before it was due to be released, a technical error resulted in an incomplete version of the game suddenly being available on Ubisoft+. Some people grabbed copies of it, […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/28/ubisoft-repeats-past-mistakes-and-past-successes-in-addressing-assassins-creed-leak/

2025-02-28 22:57:25

The ADL’s Misguided Attack On Steam
Last November, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released Steam-Powered Hate, accusing Valve’s game launcher, Steam, of fostering extremism. The report dropped just before Senator Mark Warner, a SAFE TECH Act proponent, threatened Steam’s owner, raising concerns about the political motivations behind the ADL’s claims. The ADL analyzed over one billion data points, flagging just 0.5% as […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/28/the-adls-misguided-attack-on-steam/

2025-02-28 20:18:11

Big Telecom Is Terrified Of New State Laws Demanding They Make Broadband Affordable To Poor People
During peak COVID lockdowns, New York State passed a law requiring that ISPs (with more than 20,000 subscribers) offer low-income state residents (and low income residents only) a 25 Mbps broadband tier for $15. Big Telecom didn’t much like that, but their multi-year effort to kill the law, first passed in 2021, recently fell apart […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/28/big-telecom-is-terrified-of-new-state-laws-demanding-they-make-broadband-affordable-to-poor-people/

2025-02-28 18:44:53

AI And Copyright: Expanding Copyright Hurts Everyone—Here’s What to Do Instead
You shouldn’t need a permission slip to read a webpage—whether you do it with your own eyes, or use software to help. AI is a category of general-purpose tools with myriad beneficial uses. Requiring developers to license the materials needed to create this technology threatens the development of more innovative and inclusive AI models, as well […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/28/ai-and-copyright-expanding-copyright-hurts-everyone-heres-what-to-do-instead/

2025-02-28 18:39:44

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2025-02-28 17:34:32

People Who Can’t Get Books Banned From Libraries Are Now Hiding Them Or Throwing Them In The Trash
The “rule of law” folks (who also have a sizable overlap with the “party of free speech“) are at it again. Around the nation, legislators emboldened by the Republican party’s embrace of bigotry have been passing bills banning books (or, worse, subjecting librarians to criminal charges). Almost as often as a law gets passed, it […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/28/people-who-cant-get-books-banned-from-libraries-are-now-hiding-them-or-throwing-them-in-the-trash/

2025-02-28 13:28:15

Musk Leverages His Unelected Non-Existent Authority And Expertise To Steal $2 Billion FAA Contract From Verizon
The first Trump FCC tried to give Musk nearly a billion dollars to deliver expensive Starlink access to some traffic medians and airport parking lots. The Biden FCC clawed back most of those subsidies, (correctly) arguing that the service couldn’t deliver consistent speeds, and if we’re going to spend taxpayer money on broadband, more future-proof and less […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/28/musk-leverages-his-unelected-non-existent-authority-and-expertise-to-steal-2-billion-faa-contract-from-verizon/

2025-02-28 04:08:36

Massachusetts Judge Dismisses Auto Industry Lawsuit Over State’s Popular ‘Right To Repair’ Reforms
In late 2020, Massachusetts lawmakers (with overwhelming public support) passed an expansion of the state’s “right to repair” law. The original law was the first in the nation to be passed in 2013. The update dramatically improved it, requiring that all new vehicles be accessible via a standardized, transparent platform that allows owners and third-party repair shops […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/massachusetts-judge-dismisses-auto-industry-lawsuit-over-states-popular-right-to-repair-reforms/

2025-02-27 23:35:30

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The Comedy Of Errors
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/ctrl-alt-speech-the-comedy-of-errors/

2025-02-27 21:32:47

Trump White House Announces That It Will Decide Who Gets To Cover The Administration
It’s a familiar playbook. When Donald Trump receives backlash from the public or the press for some action he’s taken, say barring AP News from White House press briefings and events because it won’t bow to his desire to rename parts of a large body of water, he doesn’t shrink. He doubles down. Every single […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/trump-white-house-announces-that-it-will-decide-who-gets-to-cover-the-administration/

2025-02-27 20:06:54

Hey Elon: You Don’t Just ‘Ooopsie’ The Destruction Of Ebola Prevention
Look, sometimes you make mistakes. Maybe you send an email to the wrong person. Maybe you accidentally buy the wrong kind of pasta sauce at the grocery store. Maybe you accidentally dismantle critical global health infrastructure. These things happen! At least, that’s what Elon Musk wants us to believe. At yesterday’s first official Musk/Trump administration […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/hey-elon-you-dont-just-ooopsie-the-destruction-of-ebola-prevention/

2025-02-27 18:52:13

South Dakota Lawmakers Send Unconstitutional Age-Verification Bill To The Governor’s Desk
Lots of states have been passing performative, rights-violating bills that mandate sites hosting porn start performing age verification or suffer the consequences. The consequences can be severe, with fines being multiplied per access by unverified users on top of legal actions brought by state prosecutors. Most of these follow the same problematic blueprint. Even if […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/south-dakota-lawmakers-send-unconstitutional-age-verification-bill-to-the-governors-desk/

2025-02-27 18:49:06

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https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/daily-deal-microsoft-project-2021-professional/

2025-02-27 17:27:38

Jeff Bezos Frees WaPo Opinion Pages Of The Personal Liberty Of Expressing Their Opinion
Look, when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post a decade ago, people worried that a billionaire owner might interfere with the paper’s editorial independence. For years, those fears seemed overblown — Bezos appeared content to let journalists do journalism while he focused on more pressing matters (like building rockets and not paying taxes). But it […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/jeff-bezos-frees-wapo-opinion-pages-of-the-personal-liberty-of-expressing-their-opinion/

2025-02-27 13:24:28

The Trump Admin Thinks Affordable Fiber Broadband Is ‘Woke’
It’s understandably not going to get the same attention as the dismantling of numerous government agencies at the hands of rich unelected manbabies, but the Trump administration is also taking aim at all the promising parts of the 2021 infrastructure bill. Especially as it relates to broadband. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) contained a whopping $42.5 […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/the-trump-admin-thinks-affordable-fiber-broadband-is-woke/

2025-02-27 03:46:01

Ninth Circuit Says Officers Can Be Sued For Destroying A Home While Searching For A Suspect
Here’s another appellate anomaly. Most circuits (including this one!) have concluded destroying someone’s home and property while engaging in law enforcement activity is just the sort of thing citizens are supposed to abide with good grace in exchange for living in a society. The Ninth Circuit isn’t most circuits. It covers a lot of ground […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/26/ninth-circuit-says-officers-can-be-sued-for-destroying-a-home-while-searching-for-a-suspect/

2025-02-26 23:37:08

Well-Meaning Germans Attempt To Stifle Neo-Nazis By Trademarking Their Coded Slogans
We’ve seen this sort of thing before, but it never really works. One of the symptoms of the permission culture we’ve built for ourselves, largely in the Western world, is that people or organizations think they can game otherwise legitimate systems in order to silence others. Intellectual property is one of those systems, where we’ve […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/26/well-meaning-germans-attempt-to-stifle-neo-nazis-by-trademarking-their-coded-slogans/

2025-02-26 21:39:03

Musk’s USAID Cuts May Hand China The AI Race
How do you win the global AI race? If you asked Elon Musk or his supporters in the Trump administration, they’d probably talk about deregulation, or getting government out of the way, or maybe something about GPU clusters and massive power consumption. What they probably wouldn’t mention is USAID, the US government’s primary foreign aid […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/26/musks-usaid-cuts-may-hand-china-the-ai-race/

2025-02-26 20:13:44

Heritage Foundation Presentation Details Plans To Doxx And Target Wikipeda Editors It Claims Are ‘Abusing Their Position’
Every day Donald Trump seems to implement yet another of the key schemes of Project 2025, despite claiming last summer that “I know nothing about Project 2025.” According to the Project 2025 Web site, it is organized by the Heritage Foundation, which is also working on what it calls its “Oversight Project”: The Oversight Project […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/26/heritage-foundation-presentation-details-plans-to-doxx-and-target-wikipeda-editors-it-claims-are-abusing-their-position/

2025-02-26 18:48:13

Dear Governor Newsom & AG Bonta: If You Want To Stop Having To Pay Elon Musk’s Legal Bills, Stop Passing Unconstitutional Laws
California taxpayers are now on the hook for $345,576 in legal fees to… Elon Musk. Why? Because Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta ignored warnings about the obvious Constitutional problems with AB 587, their social media “transparency” law. The law, which Google and Meta actually supported (knowing full well that they could comply […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/26/dear-governor-newsom-ag-bonta-if-you-want-to-stop-having-to-pay-elon-musks-legal-bills-stop-passing-unconstitutional-laws/

2025-02-26 18:44:02

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2025-02-26 17:27:19

South Dakota Republicans: Let’s Start Jailing Librarians
This stupid state. These stupid legislators. This goddamn constituency. This is my current home state. And it is painful to be here. Kristi Noem is now the head of the DHS, presumably because she never asked what this country could do for her, but instead asked “what can I do for Donald Trump?” She kept […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/26/south-dakota-republicans-lets-start-jailing-librarians/

2025-02-26 13:28:42

FCC Boss Brendan Carr Wants You To Know He’s Having A Great Time Trampling Free Speech, Attacking Civil Rights, And Destroying All Broadband Consumer Protection
We’ve noted repeatedly how new Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr is a Trump bootlicker of the highest order. He’s also busy illegally leveraging FCC power to trample the First Amendment and bully media companies that aren’t kissing Trump’s ass. At least when he isn’t busy attacking FCC civil rights reforms or dismantling whatever’s left of […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/26/fcc-boss-brendan-carr-wants-you-to-know-hes-having-a-great-time-trampling-free-speech-attacking-civil-rights-and-destroying-all-broadband-consumer-protection/

2025-02-26 03:48:02

Nikola Finally Files For Chapter 11 To Try To Wind Down Smoothly
While I have no interest in celebrating the demise of a company, one in which very real people had and have jobs that are going to go away, this was also a long time coming. The five year story about how EV trucking company Nikola ended in bankruptcy started in spectacular fashion in 2020, when […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/25/nikola-finally-files-for-chapter-11-to-try-to-wind-down-smoothly/

2025-02-26 00:00:03

The Hollow Men Of Silicon Valley
I am, unabashedly, a Humean emotivist. Like David Hume, I hold that emotions—not abstract reason—form the foundation of our ethics. Cold logic alone doesn’t guide our moral compass; it is shaped by the deep wellspring of human feeling. This isn’t a rejection of reason, but a recognition of its limits and its partnership with emotion in […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/25/the-hollow-men-of-silicon-valley/

2025-02-25 21:46:16

Texas Newspaper Traces Racist ExTwitter Account To An ICE Prosecutor
I realize that using the word “racist” to describe an ExTwitter account is pretty much redundant at this point, but there’s something more to this story. It’s not that a racist is using ExTwitter to make racist posts. It’s that a prosecutor working for ICE is, and has been, posting racist content for years on […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/25/texas-newspaper-traces-racist-extwitter-account-to-an-ice-prosecutor/

2025-02-25 20:13:28

The UK Government Just Made Everyone Less Safe As Apple Shuts Down iCloud Encryption
In a stunning display of government overreach, the UK has effectively forced Apple to disable its iCloud encryption for British users. Earlier this month, we wrote about the UK wielding the Investigatory Powers Act — aka “The Snooper’s Charter” — to demand Apple create a backdoor in its iCloud encryption for all users globally. Despite […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/25/the-uk-government-just-made-everyone-less-safe-as-apple-shuts-down-icloud-encryption/

2025-02-25 18:54:57

Lawyer Who Doesn’t Understand Defamation Law Sends C&D To Newspaper For Reporting On Court Documents
It really doesn’t seem like too much to ask that legal representatives who are specifically trained to handle legal work actually know what the fuck they’re doing when they engage in legal representation. While I understand that not every lawyer’s competence will be equal, I don’t believe we should be expected to put up with […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/25/lawyer-who-doesnt-understand-defamation-law-sends-cd-to-newspaper-for-reporting-on-court-documents/

2025-02-25 18:50:46

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2025-02-25 17:34:02

US Attorney Ed Martin Undermines DOJ Defense While Cosplaying As President’s Personal Counsel
Last Friday brought two seemingly unrelated stories: the Associated Press suing White House officials over retaliatory press access restrictions, and Trump’s interim DC US Attorney Ed Martin launching what appears to be a personal intimidation campaign against Trump/Musk political rivals — precisely the kind of unconstitutional “lawfare” that Trump and Musk themselves have previously denounced. […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/25/us-attorney-ed-martin-undermines-doj-defense-while-cosplaying-as-presidents-personal-counsel/

2025-02-25 13:33:13

CBS Shows Sign Of A Backbone In Standoff With Trump And His Extremist FCC
Last October, Trump sued CBS claiming (falsely) that a 60 Minutes interview of Kamala Harris had been “deceitfully edited” to her benefit (they simply shortened some of her answers for brevity, as news outlets often do). As Mike explored, the lawsuit was utterly baseless, and tramples the First Amendment, editorial discretion, and common sense. CBS/Paramount is looking for […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/25/cbs-shows-sign-of-a-backbone-in-standoff-with-trump-and-his-extremist-fcc/

2025-02-25 04:05:25

Another Startup Implosion Set To Brick $700 ‘AI Pins’
We have been talking about the problem of ownership in the modern world for some time, particularly as it revolves around how digital or internet-reliant products are sold. It’s become such a prevalent problem that there’s something of a generic mantra for it: You don’t actually own the thing you bought. There’s a spectrum to […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/24/another-startup-implosion-set-to-brick-700-ai-pins/