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Brendan Carr is a silly, hypocritical fascist who splits his time between destroying U.S. consumer protection standards and media consolidation limits, and abusing his position as FCC boss to threaten broadcast networks for airing stuff like comedy.

Alright, I don’t quite know what to make of what Epic Games is doing with this AI-driven nonsense, but it’s not great.

A quick update on a story we mentioned earlier this month.

Sam Altman is not punk.

For the past several months, the DHS and DOJ have been pushing hard to make Trump’s illegal voter election conspiracy theories a reality.

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A few weeks ago we wrote about how the lawyers for OpenAI and Microsoft in the massive multi-district litigation (MDL) against the companies over how they trained their AI had called for the exclusion of an expert witness report after it was revealed that…

You may have noticed that under corrupt Trumpist courts, if a regulator like the FCC engages in literally anything that threatens corporate power or aids workers, competition, or consumers (say, net neutrality, for example), or even school kids, it’s clea…

Court reform cannot come soon enough, because unless and until it does we cannot count on the Supreme Court to dispense justice.

Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for free expression.

It’s never a good idea to just print whatever the government tells you to print, not when you have the First Amendment to rely on.

This past weekend was the latest in an ongoing series of (massive) “No Kings” protests held around the country (and in some cases around the globe).

We’d all like to learn something new, but long courses or heavy reading can feel too time consuming.

At best, most Trump administration officials can be called “sycophants.”

I’ve documented for years how major media consolidation is simultaneously completely pointless and incredibly harmful.

The Stop Killing Games movement appears to still be alive and well.

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions.

Last year, Sling TV unveiled a rare bit of innovation in an increasingly enshittified streaming video market.

We’ve been covering a bunch of stories related to the saga of “Reckless” Ben Schneider and Bricks & Minifigs (“BAM”), which began with a series of videos Schneider produced about his increasingly more extreme attempts to get back the Lego sets that someone

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If most cops had a sense of irony, they wouldn’t be cops.

Shane Mac, a tech entrepreneur and CEO of the software developer XMTP Labs, decided to connect Grok Bot to his personal bank account.

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is n00bdragon with a comment about Florida’s age-gating law and its esoteric definition of addiction: Is anyone else bothered by this incredibly strange definition of “addiction”?

This Week in 2016 NBC Delayed Story About Trump’s Access Hollywood Recording Over Fear That He Might Sue Media, Politics & The Death Of Intellectual Honesty Media Bias And The Death Of Intellectual Honesty, Doubling Down Facebook Wants To Bring Controvers…

I’ve explored how Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr has been working tirelessly to illegally destroy what’s left of already shaky U.S. media consolidation limits.

There’s a certain segment of the American population that likes to really bang on about the importance of the First Amendment to our rights to free speech and the freedom of religion… right up until that includes speech and religion they don’t like.

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions.

The Democratic party has announced they’re suing Donald Trump for his recent attempt to flood the midterm airwaves with propaganda he’s falsely claiming are “public service announcements.”

Hey, this guy is a judge now!

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One of the most bizarre things over the last few years is how two guys, Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi, bumbling around cosplaying as “free speech” experts, have done tremendous damage to free speech.

You can set your watch to it.

It’s becoming very apparent that we failed to learn a key lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic: infectious diseases aren’t partisan; they will come for us all.

Flock is being tossed aside by tons of cities and the trend doesn’t seem to be slowing down.

For the last couple of years, the copyright world has been grappling with the latest generation of AI, as numerous posts on Walled Culture attest.

Over the last few years, with Congress completely incompetent and a massive moral panic about tech raging, states have stepped up to try to regulate the internet any way they can.

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On one hand, it’s great to see a ruling like this.

Larry Ellison has succeeded in fusing Paramount and Warner Brothers in a $110 billion merger that will culminate in mass layoffs, higher prices, lower-quality product, and news outlets like CNN becoming even more friendly to corporate power and the U.S. r…

There’s looking a gift horse in the mouth, and then there’s deciding to shoot that gift horse in the face repeatedly for no good reason.

I’ve written a few times now about why Meta’s big “settlement” with the states is a bad deal.

Trump has declared any non-white migrants to be garbage people from shithole countries (that’s in his own words, believe it or not) and has acted accordingly.

I feel I need to start out posts like this by reminding anyone that nudification apps are bad.

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Yet another one of Trump’s many, many, often blatantly illegal playbooks is on display here.

Meta’s agentic AI product Muse has had a rocky few weeks since launch.

The measles outbreaks in America, and specifically in Pennsylvania, are getting worse instead of getting better.

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions.

The other day the Copia Institute filed an amicus brief at the Fourth Circuit in a case involving West Virginia attempting to punish Apple for not filtering CSAM the way it thinks it should.

Techdirt has been around for almost 30 years now, and the one internet law issue that never seems to change is the bullshit use of copyright to take down speech.