Techdirt · Fallout 1 & 2 Source Code Preserved Only Through One Person Refusing To Delete Copies Of ItIt can be really amazing just how bad video game companies have been, and currently still are, when it comes to preserving the very culture that they help to create. While groups like GOG are at le…
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" The fact that these officials casually discussed targeting civilian infrastructure in an unsecured chat group — while including a journalist by mistake — demonstrates a shocking combination of moral bankruptcy and operational incompetence "
Techdirt · Even If Those Weren’t War Plans In Hegseth’s Signal Chat, They Were War CrimesWhen the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg revealed this week that senior White House officials had accidentally added him to their Yemen bombing planning session on Signal, he did something remark…
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@hakona I've seen a bunch of good reporting from Techdirt recently. This essay pushed me over the edge and I signed up as a supporter on Patreon.
#techdirt #oligarchy #democracy
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/
Techdirt · 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 recogn…
Attacker Has #Techdirt Reclassified As #Phishing Site, Proving Masnick’s Impossibility Law Once Again - https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/12/attacker-has-techdirt-reclassified-as-phishing-site-proving-masnicks-impossibility-law-once-again/
Techdirt · Attacker Has Techdirt Reclassified As Phishing Site, Proving Masnick’s Impossibility Law Once AgainHere on Techdirt, we write a lot about content moderation and even did a whole big series of content moderation case studies. However, here’s an interesting one that involves Techdirt itself …
#VPN Company #Cyberghost Says We Infringed Its Copyright In An Advertisement We Ran For Them A Decade Ago - https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/22/vpn-company-cyberghost-says-we-infringed-its-copyright-in-an-advertisement-we-ran-for-them-a-decade-ago/ "When companies can blithely claim copyright over content promoting their own products, it shows how little checks there are on false claims." #CopyrightMadness #techdirt
Techdirt · VPN Company Cyberghost Says We Infringed Its Copyright In An Advertisement We Ran For Them A Decade AgoI rarely log into Facebook these days, but I happened to do so last week and was a bit surprised to see this pop up saying that an advertising post we had put up for the VPN service CyberGhost near…
I’ve seen *a lot* of people approvingly share Robert Riech’s really bad Guardian piece on “reining in” Elon Musk.
I’m begging these people to please read @mmasnick.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/03/robert-reichs-ridiculous-response-to-elon-reminds-us-that-censorial-instincts-have-infected-both-parties/
#techdirt #tech #socialmedia #freespeech
Techdirt · Robert Reich’s Ridiculous Response To Elon Reminds Us That Censorial Instincts Have Infected Both PartiesCall me crazy, but I don’t think it’s a good thing when political leaders go around calling for the arresting or punishing of people for their speech, even when that speech is terrible. But apparen…
How I Use #AI To Help With #Techdirt (And, No, It’s Not Writing Articles) - https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/29/how-i-use-ai-to-help-with-techdirt-and-no-its-not-writing-articles/ detailed and interesting
Techdirt · How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (And, No, It’s Not Writing Articles)Let’s start off this post by noting that I know that some people hate anything and everything having to do with generative AI and insist that there are no acceptable uses of it. If that describes y…
WB lawyer didn't know that "tasmanian devils" were real.
#TechDirt #lawyer
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/21/warner-bros-had-to-have-a-tasmanian-football-team-explain-where-its-taz-character-came-from/
Techdirt · Warner Bros. Had To Have A Tasmanian Football Team Explain Where Its Taz Character Came FromThe Devil, as they say, is in the details. It’s a lesson that Warner Bros. apparently just recently had to learn after it poked the Australian Football League over its latest addition to the …
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@arstechnica I was hoping to find a reply with a link to a #TechDirt article providing some analysis on the topic since this seems to be the sort of thing @mmasnick is really good at, but so far it doesn't look he's covered it (yet?).
OK, sure.
I'm reading #TechDirt and there's a link to an article about litigation with the Internet's Dear Friend™ from Texas, Ken Paxton </sarcasm> and so I click on it.
First I get a TLS error but click through anyway,
THEN I get "Access Denied by Cisco Umbrella" ... so I finally look at the link: avn.com ...
... Oh yeah, I'm in a Starbucks. *Face Palm* I forgot content filtering was a thing. and Adult Video News would probably be on that list. Ok, that's legit I suppose.
So… it's a new year… 2024 at long last. It's literally new year's day, and the whole year now follows. We've got 366 days until we're doing the same thing again.
Here are some people that you might consider following for your timeline. This is not an exhaustive list.
#Journalists: @dangoodin, @benjedwards… both writers for @arstechnica
@v7woa@journa.host #AmateurRadio operator and journalist for @VOANews
@mmasnick journalist for #TechDirt
@lorenzofb, @zackwhittaker journalists for #TechCrunch
@codinghorror writer for #CodingHorror
@briankrebs independent #InfoSec writer and journalist
@north@fosstodon.org / @north@ꩰ.com playfully prodding sites' punycode domain compatibility 
@EugeneMcParland has been posting lots of news about the conflict
@Gala posts lots of photos and videos showing life in Ukraine -- some beautiful scenery
#RetroComputing and #RetroTech
@Gammitin posts lots about restoring classic PCs
@kenshirriff does lots of deep dives into old tech of all sorts… deep analysis of classic ICs, old mechanical avionics, all sorts.
@buba has been posting lots of photos from his native Gambia (west coast of Africa)
@xssfox has been experimenting with all kinds of radio-related things (as well as putting monitors on crooked angles).
Marsha Blackburn Makes It Clear: #KOSA Is Designed To Silence Trans People
@mmasnick #techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/06/marsha-blackburn-makes-it-clear-kosa-is-designed-to-silence-trans-people/
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another approach would be national privacy guarantees.
wrote this piece for #techdirt
"Just 23% Of Americans Know The U.S. Has Failed To Pass An Internet-Era Privacy Law"
We don't *have* to live with hostile computing and hostile networks...
TechdirtJust 23% Of Americans Know The U.S. Has Failed To Pass An Internet-Era Privacy LawWe’ve noted repeatedly how the hyperventilation about TikTok privacy is largely just a distraction from the U.S.’ ongoing failure to pass even a basic privacy law or meaningfully regula…
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Record Labels Hit Internet Archive With New $400m+ #Copyright Lawsuit
Record labels including UMG, Capitol and Sony have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in the United States targeting Internet Archive and founder Brewster Kale, among others. Filed in Manhattan federal court late Friday, the complaint alleges infringement of 2,749 works, recorded by deceased artists, including Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby.
https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-hit-internet-archive-with-new-400m-copyright-lawsuit-230812/
TF Publishing · Record Labels Hit Internet Archive With New $400m+ Copyright Lawsuit
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Anti #freespeech warriors Elizabeth Warren and Lindsey Graham want to require designated “dominant” platforms to get a license to operate. You can’t make this stuff up.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/31/senators-warren-graham-want-to-create-new-online-speech-police-commission/
#techdirt #tech #firstammendment #socialmedia #privacy #politics
TechdirtSenators Warren & Graham Want To Create New Online Speech Police CommissionThe regulation will continue until internet freedom improves, apparently. Last year we wrote about Senator Michael Bennet pushing a terrible “Digital Platform Commission” to be the new internet spe…
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the #Techdirt blog post in question:
"Techdirt Has Been Deleted From Bing And DuckDuckGo "
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/27/techdirt-has-been-deleted-from-bing-and-duckduckgo/
TechdirtTechdirt Has Been Deleted From Bing And DuckDuckGoA few months ago, Jack Yan pointed out to me that if they did a search for Techdirt on DuckDuckGo, it showed only one single link which was (bizarrely) to a random story from like eight years ago. …
Once Again, Mainstream #Media Falls For A Fake #TikTok Challenge, Creating Yet Another Moral Panic
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/21/once-again-mainstream-media-falls-for-a-fake-tiktok-challenge-creating-yet-another-moral-panic/
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TechdirtOnce Again, Mainstream Media Falls For A Fake TikTok Challenge, Creating Yet Another Moral PanicIt seems to happen over and over again, and the mainstream media always makes it worse. The mainstream media hears about a “TikTok challenge,” reports on it like crazy, and people freak out that Ti…