This week, MrWilson takes both top spots on the insightful side. In first place, it’s a comment about opportunistic ICE arrests: ICE keeps trying to find more victims to prove the false narrative of how many undocumented immigrants there are in the country, so individual agents probably want to makeContinue Reading
This Week in 2016 Snowden Docs Show NSA, New Zealand Spied On Pro-Democracy Activists Which Crazy Copyright Holder Took Down Katie Ledecky/Carlos Santana ‘Smooth’ Mashup First? Billionaire Backer Of Palantir & Facebook Insists He’s Bankrupting Journalists To Protect Your Privacy Traitor 47 Says He’ll Turn Off The Internet For TerroristsContinue Reading
Sunflower sea stars are critically endangered in the Pacific Ocean. University of Washington researchers are working with the Samish Indian Nation to bring this 24-armed creature back from the brink of extinction. (Image credit: Jennifer Adler)Continue Reading
This Week in 2016 Primatologist Tells Court That Macaque Monkeys Are, Like, Super Smart, So They Should Totally Get Copyrights Will DNC Email Hacking Make Legislators More Friendly To Encryption? Traitor 47 On Intellectual Property: China Is Bad Botnet Bill Could Give FBI Permission To Take Warrantless Peeks At TheContinue Reading
Support us on Patreon » If you know anything about Techdirt, you know we’re big fans of the EFF and its decades of advocacy for digital rights and the open internet. Recently, the organization went through a big change in the form of a new executive director: legal expert and long-timeContinue Reading
This Week in 2016 Manhattan DA Continues To Claim ‘We Don’t Want Crypto Backdoors…’ By Which He Means He Wants Crypto Backdoors No Matter Who Our Next President Is, They Won’t Understand Technology Broadband Industry Formally Tries, Once Again, To Kill Net Neutrality Comcast Tells The FCC It Should BeContinue Reading
This Week in 2016 Whether Or Not Russians Hacked DNC Means Nothing Concerning How Newsworthy The Details Are Verizon Buys Yahoo In $4.8 Billion Attempt To Bore The Internet To Death Declaring Cyberwar On Russia Because Of The DNC Hack Is A Bad Idea IP Lawyers Tell Copyright Office ToContinue Reading