This week, all our winning comments came in response to our post about Traitor 47 falling for satire from a website called The Dunning-Kruger Times. In first place on the insightful side, it’s That One Guy with a comment about how this is hardly surprising: He fell for it becauseContinue Reading
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we looked at election polls as an example of the challenges involved in defining and handling misinformation. We noted how Trumpenführerenführerland seemed to have entirely forgotten about its own manufactured TikTok hysteria, at which point the Commerce Department suddenly remembered it was supposedContinue Reading
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we featured a guest post about why most complaints about Section 230 are really just complaints about the First Amendment, and another with a deep dive into the implications of the presidential election for various issues in tech. As the votes from saidContinue Reading
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, the RIAA tossed out a bogus DMCA claim to get a YouTube downloading tool pulled from Github, and was still flooding Twitch with takedowns that the company was responding to by freaking out and courting a lot of outrage from the users itContinue Reading
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, hypocrisy was on full display as the GOP went from whining about net neutrality to supporting The Traitor’s attack on social media (which the FCC was too afraid to go on record in support of while also rejecting its own legal arguments about netContinue Reading