Five Years Ago This week in 2020, a court slowed The Traitor’s roll on the TikTok ban because the DOJ couldn’t show any actual national security threat. Meanwhile, the attacks on Section 230 were coming in waves, with a stupid new bill from Joe Manchin and John Cornyn quickly followed byContinue Reading
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we wrote about how the TikTok “deal” was a grift from the start, while the blowback from China started to arrive, though TikTok and the DOJ were still fighting it out in court (and a judge issued a preliminary injunction against the WeChatContinue Reading
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Heart of Dawn with a comment about Disney pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s show: Conservatives absolutely hate “cancel culture” right up to the point they are the ones doing it. Hypocrisy is dead to these people. In second place, it’s ThadContinue Reading
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, the first phase of the TikTok fight resolved with Oracle getting a lucrative hosting deal instead of buying the company in a deal driven by The Traitor-world insiders, while a court refused to block The Traitor’s executive order. At the same time, users were fightingContinue Reading
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we learned about how the White House supposedly blocked Walmart from buying TikTok, and we asked why amidst all the fear around the site, nobody was equally worried about advertising tech and location data sales. GOP Senators released the latest stupid attempt toContinue Reading
Support us on Patreon » In what feels like something of a throwback to much earlier days of Techdirt, the Supreme Court is getting into the weeds of the DMCA. Cox v. Sony is a case centered around questions of repeat infringers and intermediary liability, and we’ve submitted an amicus briefContinue Reading
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, AT&T was hypocritically calling for Section 230 reform and astroturfing the FCC in support of The Traitor’s attack on social media, while we submitted FCC comments both from Mike and from the Copia Institute on the NTIA petition calling for 230 to be reinterpreted.Continue Reading
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, the Secret Service joined the list of law enforcement agencies using data brokers to dodge warrant requirements for location data, much like the CPB was still doing via a broker being investigated by congress, while other agencies were throwing tax dollars at junkContinue Reading
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, a judge forbade a Facebook user being sued by a cop from publishing the cop’s name on social media, the DC police union was suing to block the release of the names of officers involved in shootings, and we wrote about how SectionContinue Reading