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| Jan 18, 2025 | The Legal Battlefield: When Grief Meets Greed in the Courtroom | In a world where justice is often a mirage, a recent court case has illuminated the dark corners of our legal system. It’s a tale of tragedy, defiance, and the relentless pursuit of accountability. The case revolves around King Vanga, a Sta... |
| Jan 18, 2025 | Bridging the Gap: Nigerian Scientists and the Call for Development | In a world where innovation drives progress, the recent recognition of six Nigerian scientists by President Joe Biden shines a spotlight on the potential of Nigeria’s diaspora. This honor, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists ... |
| Jan 13, 2025 | Appeals Court: Yes, Suing The Family Of People You Killed In A Car Crash For Defamation Is A SLAPP Suit | This one is from a couple months ago, but I finally had a chance to catch up on some older stories. In late 2023, we wrote about one of the most egregious SLAPP suits we’d ever seen. In a case that seems to defy both law and basic human dec... |
| Dec 18, 2024 | The Pissing Contest: Jason Fyk's Legal Follies and Kash Patel's Irony | In the world of social media and politics, absurdity often reigns supreme. Two recent stories exemplify this truth: Jason Fyk's relentless legal battles over his "pee video" empire and Kash Patel's ironic rise within the FBI. Both... |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Trump’s Anti-Deep State FBI Pick Kash Patel Got Swept Up By… Trump’s Deep State | As a non-fan, non-supporter of Donald Trump, I don’t have much left after discovering a disturbing number of my fellow Americans prefer fascism to liberty. But I still have these things I will forever hold near and dear to my heart: schaden... |
| Nov 9, 2024 | The Tug-of-War for Free Speech in America | In the wake of a contentious election, America finds itself at a crossroads. The recent choice of leadership has ignited fears about the future of free speech. The air is thick with tension. The stakes are high. The battle lines are drawn. ... |
| Nov 7, 2024 | We Need To Fight For Free Speech More Than Ever | The American people have spoken. And they’ve chosen to hand the full power of our military, the nuclear codes, and the courts to a petty, vindictive man who wants to punish anyone who disagrees with him. I’m not going to say much directly a... |
| Nov 6, 2023 | Former DHS/NSA Official Stewart Baker Decides He Can Help NSO Group Turn A Profit | NSO Group used to have everything going for it. It had plenty of customers and plenty of leeway to sell to some of the worst governments in the world. |
| Oct 16, 2023 | Clarence Thomas Thinks Supreme Court Orders Lists Are His Personal Blog Where He Can Fantasize About Enabling His Rich & Powerful Friends To Sue Their Critics | Way back in 2016, Ken White posted a “lawsplainer” about “opening up our libel laws,’“ as Donald Trump had promised on the campaign trail. In it, he noted that unlike (for example…) Roe v. Wade, there was no decades-long effort by the Feder... |
| Aug 3, 2023 | City Officials Tried To Force Wikimedia To Remove Truthful, But Unflattering, Content From Its Wiki Page | The best Streisanding is the Streisanding you give yourself, as the adage goes. The adage is even enshrined at Wikipedia, where it points to the creator of the term: Mike Masnick. Perhaps you’ve heard of him. |
| Jul 13, 2023 | TSA Rolling Out ‘Voluntary’ Facial Recognition Program To Another 400 Domestic Airports | Ever since the fall of 2018, the DHS has been threatening the American public with increased surveillance on top of the insults and intrusions TSA officers physically perform at security checkpoints. |
| May 16, 2023 | Bungie Wins Default Judgment Against Danish Cheat Purveyor In Ruling That Encourages More CFAA Abuse | A lawsuit [PDF] against a cheat creator has swung almost completely in Bungie’s direction, mainly thanks to the Danish defendant being unwilling to travel across the pond to defend himself in court. The claims are numerous, ranging from cop... |
| Mar 21, 2023 | Silicon Valley School District Files Laughable, Vexatious RICO Claims Against Big Social Media… But Not Facebook Or Instagram | Back in January, we wrote about the Seattle public school district filing an absolutely laughable lawsuit against basically all of big social media, based on a bunch of misread and misunderstood studies, and general moral panic that social ... |
| Dec 7, 2022 | Hello! You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Twitter And Hunter Biden’s Laptop | Hello! Someone has referred you to this post because you’ve said something quite wrong about Twitter and how it handled something to do with Hunter Biden’s laptop. If you’re new here, you may not know that I’ve written a similar post for pe... |
| Sep 24, 2022 | Urbit Is Web3, Weird and Wonderful and I Don’t Care Who Made It | Sometime around the nadir of the coronavirus pandemic, a plumber tugged on the mask hanging under his nose and told me with a straight face that the billionaire George Soros was responsible for his having to wear it. If a friend said someth... |
| Sep 16, 2022 | 5th Circuit Rewrites A Century Of 1st Amendment Law To Argue Internet Companies Have No Right To Moderate | As far as I can tell, in the area the 5th Circuit appeals court has jurisdiction, websites no longer have any 1st Amendment editorial rights. That’s the result of what appears to me to be the single dumbest court ruling I’ve seen in a long,... |
| Sep 8, 2022 | The TSA Is Hot Garbage. And We Will Never Be Rid Of It. | The terrorists won. And it wasn’t a small victory. It was one that managed to make the American way of life significantly worse for anyone attempting to fly. Flying is how we get around in this sprawl of a nation that encompasses 50 states ... |
| May 23, 2022 | Judge Sanctions MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell For Wasting The Court’s Time | Mike Lindell just used to be a guy selling overpriced pillows to people who liked to buy overpriced pillows. But when Donald Trump was elected, he threw his entire company under the Trump campaign bus, making it clear Lindell was willing to... |
| May 10, 2022 | Alt Right ‘Journalist’ Who’s Lost Every Lawsuit Over Banned Accounts Files Another Lawsuit Over Banned Accounts | Laura Loomer still thinks she can sue her way back onto Facebook and Twitter. In support of her argument, she brings arguments that failed in the DC Appeals Court as well as a bill for $124k in legal fees for failing to show that having you... |
| May 4, 2022 | Musk, Twitter, Why The First Amendment Can’t Resolve Content Moderation (Part I) | “Twitter has become the de facto town square,” proclaims Elon Musk. “So, it’s really important that people have both the reality and the perception that they’re able to speak freely within the bounds of the law.” When pressed by TED’s Chris... |
| Apr 15, 2022 | Elon Musk Demonstrates How Little He Understands About Content Moderation | Lots of talk yesterday as Elon Musk made a hostile takeover bid for all of Twitter. This was always a possibility, and one that we discussed before in looking at how little Musk seemed to understand about free speech. But soon after the bid... |
| Mar 16, 2022 | FBI Invites Public In On Its Forfeiture Racket, Promises Them A Cut Of The Take | There aren’t many ways to make something as objectively awful as civil asset forfeiture worse, but the FBI has found a way to do it. As it stands now, forfeiture allows law enforcement to take cash and property from people under the (unprov... |
| Jul 1, 2021 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Ridiculous Lawsuit Against Facebook Gets Tossed Out Of Court | As you may recall, last summer we wrote about what we referred to as an "insanely stupid" lawsuit that Robert F. Kennedy had filed against Facebook on behalf of his wacky anti-vax organization "Children's Health Defense"... |
| Jul 1, 2021 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Ridiculous Lawsuit Against Facebook Gets Tossed Out Of Court | As you may recall, last summer we wrote about what we referred to as an “insanely stupid” lawsuit that Robert F. Kennedy had filed against Facebook on behalf of his wacky anti-vax organization “Children’s Health Defense” (CHD). The issue, o... |
| Apr 29, 2021 | Joe Biden Yells A Dumb Anti-Free Speech Trope In An Uncrowded Congress | Joe Biden has never been a particularly big free speech supporter. For years, as a Senator, he consistently sided with the entertainment industry in their never-ending quest to have the government help attack free speech on the internet via... |
| Apr 5, 2021 | Devin Nunes Loses Yet Another One Of His SLAPP Suits | A little over a year ago, a DC watchdog group had asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate Rep. Devin Nunes over his total failure to disclose who the hell is paying for all of his various frivolous SLAPP suits. As the group,... |
| Mar 22, 2021 | Appeals Court Judge Attacks Fundamental Principle Of 1st Amendment Law, Because He Thinks The Media Likes Democrats Too Much | Two years ago, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas shocked a lot of people by arguing -- somewhat out of nowhere -- that the Supreme Court should revisit the NY Times v. Sullivan ruling. If you're unaware, that 1964 ruling is perhaps the ... |
| Mar 22, 2021 | Appeals Court Judge Attacks Fundamental Principle Of 1st Amendment Law, Because He Thinks The Media Likes Democrats Too Much | Two years ago, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas shocked a lot of people by arguing — somewhat out of nowhere — that the Supreme Court should revisit the NY Times v. Sullivan ruling. If you’re unaware, that 1964 ruling is perhaps the mo... |
| Mar 11, 2021 | Court Allows Lawsuit Over Abusive Copyright Trolling DMCA Notices To Move Forward | Last summer we wrote about an interesting case involving the latest evolution of copyright trolling, involving Jon Nicolini, who some copyright troll watchers may recognize from his participating in an earlier generation of copyright trolli... |
| Mar 11, 2021 | Court Allows Lawsuit Over Abusive Copyright Trolling DMCA Notices To Move Forward | Last summer we wrote about an interesting case involving the latest evolution of copyright trolling, involving Jon Nicolini, who some copyright troll watchers may recognize from his participating in an earlier generation of copyright trolli... |
| Jan 22, 2021 | Court Tosses RICO Lawsuit Demanding $90 Million And The Dissolution Of Google For Supposed Anti-Conservative Bias | A lawsuit [PDF] against Google over ad practices and search engine rankings has been dismissed. The allegations start normally before taking a sharp turn into some recently favored causes of action. First, there’s the RICO. Second, the plai... |
| Jan 22, 2021 | Court Tosses RICO Lawsuit Demanding $90 Million And The Dissolution Of Google For Supposed Anti-Conservative Bias | A lawsuit [PDF] against Google over ad practices and search engine rankings has been dismissed. The allegations start normally before taking a sharp turn into some recently favored causes of action. First, there's the RICO. Second, the plai... |
| Jan 15, 2021 | Former FCC Boss Tom Wheeler Continues To Misunderstand And Misrepresent Section 230 And The Challenges Of Content Moderation | It's not just Ajit Pai who is an FCC chair who misunderstands Section 230. His predecessor, Tom Wheeler continues to get it totally wrong as well. A year ago, we highlighted Wheeler's complete confusion over Section 230, that blamed Section... |
| Jan 15, 2021 | Former FCC Boss Tom Wheeler Continues To Misunderstand And Misrepresent Section 230 And The Challenges Of Content Moderation | It’s not just Ajit Pai who is an FCC chair who misunderstands Section 230. His predecessor, Tom Wheeler continues to get it totally wrong as well. A year ago, we highlighted Wheeler’s complete confusion over Section 230, that blamed Section... |
| Dec 28, 2020 | Presidential Commission On Law Enforcement Says Pretty Much Everyone But Cops Are To Blame For The Shitty State Of American Policing | [Note: this is one of what will probably be several posts covering the Commission’s 332-page report. There’s a lot to cover in here and one post simply isn’t enough to cover everything in it. Stay tuned.] |
| Dec 28, 2020 | Presidential Commission On Law Enforcement Says Pretty Much Everyone But Cops Are To Blame For The Shitty State Of American Policing | [Note: this is one of what will probably be several posts covering the Commission's 332-page report. There's a lot to cover in here and one post simply isn't enough to cover everything in it. Stay tuned.] |
| Nov 18, 2020 | New Gear On Threadless: Fire In A Crowded Theatre | Get your Fire In A Crowded Theatre gear in the Techdirt store on Threadless » |
| Nov 18, 2020 | New Gear On Threadless: Fire In A Crowded Theatre | Get your Fire In A Crowded Theatre gear in the Techdirt store on Threadless » |
| Nov 18, 2020 | Why Don't Conservatives Care About Copyright? | I’m certainly not the first person (especially on Techdirt) to point out that if conservatives are really concerned about online censorship, they should be putting copyright law under the microscope, rather than, or at least in addition to,... |
| Oct 13, 2020 | Clarence Thomas Doesn't Like Section 230, Adding To His Anti-Free Speech Legacy | I’m not quite sure what has gotten into Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas lately, but he’s been on quite a roll in terms of deciding he wants to toss out all sorts of well-settled precedents (including, in at least one case, his very ow... |
| Oct 13, 2020 | Clarence Thomas Doesn't Like Section 230, Adding To His Anti-Free Speech Legacy | I'm not quite sure what has gotten into Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas lately, but he's been on quite a roll in terms of deciding he wants to toss out all sorts of well-settled precedents (including, in at least one case, his very ow... |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Insanely Stupid Lawsuit Against Facebook | As you may have heard, last week Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vax organization "Children's Health Defense" filed a supremely stupid lawsuit against Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, and fact checking organizations Poynter and Polit... |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Insanely Stupid Lawsuit Against Facebook | As you may have heard, last week Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vax organization “Children’s Health Defense” filed a supremely stupid lawsuit against Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, and fact checking organizations Poynter and Politifact amon... |
| Aug 10, 2020 | San Diego Police Officers Are Using An Old Sedition Law To Punish People For Swearing Around Cops | It’s pretty well established that offensive hand gestures are covered by the First Amendment, even when it’s a cop receiving the finger. This free speech has resulted in “contempt of cop” arrests and citations, but there hasn’t been a feder... |
| Aug 10, 2020 | San Diego Police Officers Are Using An Old Sedition Law To Punish People For Swearing Around Cops | It's pretty well established that offensive hand gestures are covered by the First Amendment, even when it's a cop receiving the finger. This free speech has resulted in "contempt of cop" arrests and citations, but there hasn't be... |
| Jul 17, 2020 | Copyright Trolling Evolved: Okularity Accused Of DMCAing Social Media Accounts, Then Demanding MILLIONS To Reinstate | A decade ago, one of the most ridiculous copyright trolling outfits was CEG TEK (which stood for “Copyright Enforcement Group… um… TEK”). It would shake down people like any other copyright troll, but it also had a “CTO”, named Jon Nicolini... |
| Jul 17, 2020 | Copyright Trolling Evolved: Okularity Accused Of DMCAing Social Media Accounts, Then Demanding MILLIONS To Reinstate | A decade ago, one of the most ridiculous copyright trolling outfits was CEG TEK (which stood for "Copyright Enforcement Group... um... TEK"). It would shake down people like any other copyright troll, but it also had a "CTO&q... |
| Jun 23, 2020 | Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act | Hello! Someone has referred you to this post because you've said something quite wrong about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. |
| Jun 23, 2020 | Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act | Hello! Someone has referred you to this post because you’ve said something quite wrong about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. |
| Mar 24, 2020 | Houston Police Chief Says He'll Prosecute People For False Statements About COVID-19 Response; Won't Debate 1st Amendment | We already went over this with Newark, NJ, but now Houston’s top law enforcement officer is falsely claiming he can and will prosecute people for making false statements about Houston’s COVID-19 response. It started with rumors on social me... |
| Mar 24, 2020 | Houston Police Chief Says He'll Prosecute People For False Statements About COVID-19 Response; Won't Debate 1st Amendment | We already went over this with Newark, NJ, but now Houston's top law enforcement officer is falsely claiming he can and will prosecute people for making false statements about Houston's COVID-19 response. It started with rumors on social me... |
| Feb 24, 2020 | As Court Finally Dumps One Of Devin Nunes' Ridiculous Lawsuits (With A Warning About Sanctions), Nunes Promises To File Another | Back in September, we wrote about Devin Nunes dropping the only lawsuit he'd filed in California against some of his critics, only to immediately file an absolute laugher of a lawsuit against Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson, alleging racketeer... |
| Feb 24, 2020 | As Court Finally Dumps One Of Devin Nunes' Ridiculous Lawsuits (With A Warning About Sanctions), Nunes Promises To File Another | Back in September, we wrote about Devin Nunes dropping the only lawsuit he’d filed in California against some of his critics, only to immediately file an absolute laugher of a lawsuit against Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson, alleging racketeer... |
| Feb 20, 2020 | Group Promoting 'Religious Freedom' Around Vaccines Appears To Want To Stifle Free Expression Of Critics | As should be evident by the fact that our post from last fall about content moderation dealing with ignorant anti-vaxxers has amassed over 1700 comments (and more keep coming in), the anti-vax community seems to really like to flood the zon... |
| Dec 18, 2019 | NC, Or Not NC: Why Suing The Sons Of Confederate Veterans In N.D.Cal For Violating The DMCA Makes Sense | In Mike’s piece about Greg Doucette’s lawsuit against the Sons of Confederate Veterans for abusing the DMCA, he suggests that the lawsuit might not belong in the Northern District of California. I thought it worth exploring why it might ver... |
| Dec 18, 2019 | NC, Or Not NC: Why Suing The Sons Of Confederate Veterans In N.D.Cal For Violating The DMCA Makes Sense | In Mike's piece about Greg Doucette's lawsuit against the Sons of Confederate Veterans for abusing the DMCA, he suggests that the lawsuit might not belong in the Northern District of California. I thought it worth exploring why it might ver... |
| Dec 13, 2019 | Robyn Openshaw, 'The Green Smoothie Girl,' Threatening SLAPP Suits Over Mediocre Reviews | Various health fads come and go. One particular one that I guess has been around for a bit is the idea of drinking “green smoothies.” This was made popular by Robyn Openshaw, who is called “The Green Smoothie Girl” and has written a bunch o... |
| Dec 13, 2019 | Robyn Openshaw, 'The Green Smoothie Girl,' Threatening SLAPP Suits Over Mediocre Reviews | Various health fads come and go. One particular one that I guess has been around for a bit is the idea of drinking "green smoothies." This was made popular by Robyn Openshaw, who is called "The Green Smoothie Girl" and h... |
| Sep 5, 2019 | Devin Nunes Drops One Ridiculous Lawsuit, Only To File Another One | A month ago we wrote about Devin Nunes’ third lawsuit against his critics over their speech, and noted that he was promising in the press that more lawsuits were coming. We noted that the latest lawsuit was slightly odd in that he actually ... |
| Sep 5, 2019 | Devin Nunes Drops One Ridiculous Lawsuit, Only To File Another One | A month ago we wrote about Devin Nunes' third lawsuit against his critics over their speech, and noted that he was promising in the press that more lawsuits were coming. We noted that the latest lawsuit was slightly odd in that he actually ... |
| Aug 28, 2019 | Guy Sues Facebook For Violating Basically All The Laws, For Shutting Down His Account And For Everything Else Bad Facebook Has Ever Done | "This case is likely one of the first filed in this Court that addresses the relationship between the First Amendment and the Internet-based [Facebook] communications platform" claims a new lawsuit filed against Facebook by a guy ... |
| Aug 28, 2019 | Guy Sues Facebook For Violating Basically All The Laws, For Shutting Down His Account And For Everything Else Bad Facebook Has Ever Done | “This case is likely one of the first filed in this Court that addresses the relationship between the First Amendment and the Internet-based [Facebook] communications platform” claims a new lawsuit filed against Facebook by a guy very angry... |
| Aug 2, 2019 | SLAPP Suit In Virginia Tries To Silence Historian Highlighting Ancestry Of Guy Suing To Keep Confederate Statues In Charlottesville | Another day, another attempt by someone to silence people for saying something they don’t like. The latest is a history professor, who was briefly quoted in an article about another lawsuit. That lawsuit? An attempt by some Virginia residen... |
| Aug 2, 2019 | SLAPP Suit In Virginia Tries To Silence Historian Highlighting Ancestry Of Guy Suing To Keep Confederate Statues In Charlottesville | Another day, another attempt by someone to silence people for saying something they don't like. The latest is a history professor, who was briefly quoted in an article about another lawsuit. That lawsuit? An attempt by some Virginia residen... |
| Jul 31, 2019 | Court Dismisses Democrats' Nutty Lawsuit Against Russia, Wikileaks And Trump Associates | A little over a year ago we wrote about a truly ridiculous lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee against the country of Russia, Wikileaks, the GRU, Julian Assange, the Donald Trump campaign, and a long list of Donald Trump asso... |
| May 30, 2019 | Libel Lawsuit Has A Bunch Of Crazy Ideas About How Section 230 Immunity Works | If you want a masterclass in misunderstanding pretty much everything about Section 230 of the CDA, this libel lawsuit — filed by a massage business owner against a Redditor, Reddit, and a few board members — will fill this really weird hole... |
| Apr 12, 2019 | The WikiLeaks Case Is Just Beginning | Julian Assange had to be the worst houseguest an embassy ever encountered. Between Assange’s reportedly hacking the Ecuadorian embassy’s network, creating diplomatic incidents with intemperate tweets, and apparently troubling embassy staff ... |
| Apr 1, 2019 | Getty Images Sued Yet Again For Trying To License Public Domain Images | Back in 2016, we wrote about two separate lawsuits involving claims that Getty Images was selling “licenses” to images it had no rights to sell licenses to. The first one was brought by photographer Carol Highsmith, who sued Getty after Get... |
| Feb 20, 2019 | Justice Thomas Is Apparently Serious About Completely Upturning Over 50 Years Of 1st Amendment Law | It appears that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has decided to drop quite a First Amendment bombshell this morning — suggesting that over half of a century of “settled” First Amendment law might not be so settled. |
| Jan 25, 2019 | Court Dismisses RICO SLAPP Suit Against Greenpeace By Logging Company | Back in the fall of 2017, we wrote about a somewhat crazy situation in which one of President Trump’s favorite law firms, Kasowitz Benson Torres, seemed to be building up a new kind of SLAPP practice: helping various developers file not jus... |
| Oct 26, 2018 | Another Terrible Court Decision In Europe: Insulting A Religion Is Not Free Speech | Let’s start off with the basics, because if I don’t, I know we’ll be flooded with these comments: no, the European concept of “free speech” differs quite a bit from the American one. The American 1st Amendment creates extremely strong prote... |
| Sep 20, 2018 | Elon Musk May Have Talked His Way Into A Pretty Serious Defamation Lawsuit | So many defamation lawsuits that we see are so obviously bogus on their face that often it feels like we should reconsider the rules for defamation in the first place. Over and over again we see defamation lawsuits that are obviously SLAPP ... |
| Aug 14, 2018 | Free Speech Pro-Tip: You Can Yell Fire In A Crowded Theatre | |
| Aug 1, 2018 | Ignorant Hysteria Over 3D Printed Guns Leads To Courts Ignoring The First Amendment | A year and a half ago, we wrote about a troubling ruling by the 5th Circuit siding with the US State Department waving a magic “national security” wand to ignore the First Amendment implications of banning the internet distribution of the C... |
| Jul 20, 2018 | Wondering How Suburban Express Is Doing In Lawsuit Brought By Illinois Attorney General? Really Fucking Bad! | Back in May, we wrote about Suburban Express, the comically awful bussing company that works the University of Illinois-Champaign to Chicago circuit and is owned by Dennis Toeppen, being sued by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Why i... |
| Jul 17, 2018 | Judge Shrugs At 1st Amendment, Orders News Site To Take Down Info It Got From A Publicly-Available Court Filing [UPDATED] | A federal judge has decided unconstitutional prior restraint is the best way to handle a clerical screwup. An injunction request, filed under seal, has been granted, resulting in the LA Times deleting information it obtained legally from a ... |
| Jul 12, 2018 | SCOTUS Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Problematic Opinion On Anti-SLAPP Laws | So Tim Cushing has just taken a peek at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s 4th Amendment rulings and Karl already looked at his questionable opinion concerning net neutrality (in which he argued (bizarrely) that what blocking content a... |
| Jun 11, 2018 | DOJ Stacks Charges On MalwareTech, Including Stuff Put Out Of Reach By The Statute Of Limitations | The government’s case against Marcus Hutchins, aka MalwareTech, isn’t getting any stronger. After detaining him at a Las Vegas airport following some post-conference partying, the FBI decided to hit the guy who inadvertently shut down Wanna... |
| Jun 8, 2018 | Revenge Porn Dude Craig Brittain Files Hilariously Bad Lawsuit Against Twitter | Ah, Craig Brittain is back. Never quite satisfied to recognize that after the FTC sanctioned him, his name is the equivalent of Pustule Nickelback McHitler II, he’s continued to lead his life of ridiculousness online, alternating between de... |
| Jun 8, 2018 | FBI Hoovered Up Two Years Of A Journalist's Phone And Email Records To Hunt Down A Leaker | The New York Times reports the FBI has crossed a line it’s generally hesitant to cross. An investigation into classified info leaks by a Senate Intelligence Committee aide involved the seizure of two year’s worth of a New York Times reporte... |
| Jun 7, 2018 | Court Tosses Out Silly Trollish Publicity Stunt Defamation Lawsuit | Almost exactly a year ago, we wrote about a ridiculous defamation lawsuit filed by a plaintiff who has a history of fairly trollish, attention seeking behavior. I chose not to name the person in the post as I argued that the lawsuit itself ... |
| May 19, 2018 | The Curious Takedown Notices of ‘Tongues of Glass’ Poet Shaun Shane | Over the years we have published numerous articles on dubious or inaccurate takedown notices, both from large media conglomerates and independent copyright holders. One of the most curious cases is without doubt that of Shaun Shane and his ... |
| May 15, 2018 | Stormy Daniels' Lawyer Sends Totally Bogus, Censorial Defamation Threat To Reporter He Doesn't Like | No matter what you might think of the various legal fights involving Stormy Daniels, her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, is making quite a name for himself over the past couple of months — partly for his legal strategy, partly for breaking news a... |
| Apr 20, 2018 | Glass-Tongued Copyright Troll Thinks Google, Popehat, and Boing Boing Are Engaged In 'Black Hat Seo' | After taking a hiatus from issuing bogus DMCA takedowns against this site, self-proclaimed poet “Shaun Shane” is back at it. The harassment of anyone who dares to publish a certain poem of Shane’s — the one about tongues made of glass — is ... |
| Apr 20, 2018 | Democratic National Committee's Lawsuit Against Russians, Wikileaks And Various Trump Associates Full Of Legally Nutty Arguments | This morning I saw a lot of excitement and happiness from folks who greatly dislike President Trump over the fact that the Democratic National Committee had filed a giant lawsuit against Russia, the GRU, Guccifier 2, Wikileaks, Julian Assan... |
| Apr 20, 2018 | Michael Cohen Drops Ridiculous Lawsuit Against Buzzfeed After Buzzfeed Sought Stormy Daniels' Details | Donald Trump’s long time lawyer, Michael Cohen has been in a bit of hot water of late. As you no doubt heard, the FBI raided Cohen’s office and home seeking a bunch of information, some of which related to the $130,000 he paid to adult perf... |
| Apr 17, 2018 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 163: Teaching The Law Via Podcasts | Law isn’t simple, and truly learning about it takes more than a few short primers or even an in-depth guide or two — which makes it the perfect topic to explore via the medium of podcasts. This week, we’ve got a pair of guests who are doing... |
| Mar 8, 2018 | Nevada Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court's Abysmal Ruling On Las Vegas Shooting Coroner's Reports | Prior restraint gets another thumping in court following a truly lousy injunction issued against a Las Vegas newspaper. The Las Vegas Review-Journal requested autopsy reports on victims of the Las Vegas shooting that left 58 dead. The coron... |
| Mar 1, 2018 | Five Years After His Arrest, Prosecutors Try To Push Back Justin Carter's 'Terroristic Threat' Trial | Way back in the summer of 2013, Justin Carter, a teen living in Texas, made a joke on Facebook while chatting with other League of Legends players. Responding to facetious comments he was insane, Carter sarcastically agreed, using a very re... |
| Feb 27, 2018 | Stanford Professor Drops Stupid SLAPP Suit Against Critics; Still Mad Online | Back in November, we wrote about a pure SLAPP lawsuit filed by Stanford professor Mark Jacobson against another scientist, Christopher Clack, and the National Academy of Sciences. Jacobson claimed that Clack and others defamed him by publis... |
| Feb 21, 2018 | Research Paper Links Police Unions To Increased Officer Misconduct | Some research [PDF] has emerged indicating handing officers extra rights results in more citizen complaints. This may seem to be of the “water is wet” research variety, but there’s no reason to shrug this off. While most of us can infer tha... |
| Feb 2, 2018 | Hong Kong's Top Cop Wants To Make It Illegal To Insult Police Officers | The Blue Lives Matter movement has traveled overseas. Here in the US, we’ve seen various attempts to criminalize sassing cops, although none of those appear to be working quite as well as those already protected by a raft of extra rights wo... |
| Jan 11, 2018 | Appeals Court OKs F-Bombs For Federal Trademark Protection | The Supreme Court’s decision in The Slants’ trademark case is already beginning to pay off for trademark seekers whose applications were determined to be a bit too racy for the Trademark Office’s (subjective) taste. Section 1052(a) of the U... |
| Nov 20, 2017 | Angry Lawyer Already Engaged In A SLAPP Suit Promises To Sue More Critics, Use His Machine Gun If Sanctioned | Earlier this year, we mentioned the Texas lawyer Jason Lee Van Dyke in relation to a story in which Twitter, ridiculously, banned Ken “Popehat” White after he wrote about threats from Van Dyke. We had written about Van Dyke years earlier wh... |
| Nov 15, 2017 | 'Tis The Season To Fail To Catch Contraband And Explosive Devices At TSA Checkpoints | Just in time for the travel season to kick in, the TSA is operating at peak efficiency. Streamlining travelers’ pre-boarding procedures this year — just like every year preceding it — will be the agency’s inability to keep dangerous items f... |
| Nov 8, 2017 | SLAPP Alert: Professor Sues Another For Defamation Over Competing Academic Papers | One of the important elements of the First Amendment, and its protections of opinion, is that it opens up all kinds of debates — from the political to the scientific. Indeed, the very nature of scientific research in academia is one of cons... |
| Nov 6, 2017 | The Case Of Glassdoor And The Grand Jury Subpoena, And How Courts Are Messing With Online Speech In Secret | In my last post, I discussed why it is so important for platforms to be able to speak about the discovery demands they receive, seeking to unmask their anonymous users. That candor is crucially important in ensuring that unmasking demands c... |
| Oct 25, 2017 | The DOJ's Bizarre Subpoena Over An Emoji Highlights Its Ridiculous Vendetta Against A Security Researcher | Yesterday we broke the crazy story of how the DOJ issued a subpoena to Twitter attempting to identify five Twitter users, not because of anything they had done, but because someone else the DOJ disliked — a security researcher named Justin ... |
| Oct 23, 2017 | Trump's Favorite Law Firm Loses Massive RICO SLAPP Suit Against Greenpeace, But Has Another One Already Going | We talk quite a bit about the problem of so-called SLAPP lawsuits around here. SLAPP standing for “Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.” It’s a terrible acronym, but what it really means is generally the rich and powerful filing ... |
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Popehat was founded in 2007.
What has the press written about Popehat?
Parsers VC has collected 276 articles mentioning Popehat, among them “The Legal Battlefield: When Grief Meets Greed in the Courtroom” (Jan 18, 2025) and “Bridging the Gap: Nigerian Scientists and the Call for Development” (Jan 18, 2025).
Is Popehat still active?
Yes, Popehat is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 29, 2026.