| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.09.2024 | The Battle of Truth and Power: Conspiracy Theories and Legislative Maneuvers | In the chaotic arena of American discourse, two narratives collide: the rise of conspiracy theories and the legislative struggle over online safety. Each represents a different facet of the ongoing battle for truth and power in the digital ... |
| 17.09.2024 | KOSA Rises From The Ashes: House Committee Announces Markup | Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the internet, KOSA rears its ugly head once again.
The rumors of KOSA’s demise in Congress may have been overstated. Following a big push by supporters of the bill, including Senator Marsha “w... |
| 13.09.2024 | ‘Patriot Reporter’ Latest Conspiracy Theorist To Discover It’s Not Libel If It’s The Truth | It’s hardly surprising that someone who makes a living trafficking in things other than facts would have trouble recognizing facts when they’re applied to him. That’s the case here with Philip Godlewski — a self-proclaimed “patriot reporter... |
| 03.09.2024 | The Third Circuit’s Section 230 Decision In Anderson v. TikTok Is Pure Poppycock. | Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit concluded, in Anderson v. TikTok, that algorithmic recommendations aren’t protected by Section 230. Because they’re the platforms’ First Amendment-protected expression, the court re... |
| 30.08.2024 | Police Chief Who Fled A Shooting And Crashed Into Another Car Deliberately Didn’t Activate His Body Camera | Well, here’s some more flavor to add to this horrendous mix of irresponsibility and privilege put in motion by Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina’s multiple moving violations earlier this year.
Here’s a pretty solid recap of the inciden... |
| 28.08.2024 | The Tension Between Rights and Regulations: A Look at Recent Court Decisions | In the landscape of American law, the balance between individual rights and institutional regulations often teeters precariously. Recent court decisions illuminate this tension, particularly regarding students' rights and law enforcement's ... |
| 28.08.2024 | Rand Paul Is Right: Censoring The Internet Doesn’t Protect Kids | Last month, we shared the details of a really good “Dear Colleague” letter that Senator Rand Paul sent around urging other Senators not to vote for KOSA. While the letter did not work and the Senate overwhelmingly approved KOSA (only to now... |
| 26.08.2024 | First Amendment Doesn’t Quite Cover Students’ ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Shirts, Says Federal Court | It’s well-established that students still have Constitutional rights, even if some school administrators clearly believe otherwise. But they are limited, especially when on school grounds. There’s a lot of nuance in play. When those nuances... |
| 22.08.2024 | Fifth Circuit Flips The Script, Declares Geofence Warrants Unconstitutional | Oh, Fifth Circuit, you crazy, crazy kid. I take back almost all the bad things I’ve said about you.
The cop-friendliest circuit in the nation has done the unimaginable: set up a circuit-on-circuit showdown that can only be resolved by a Sup... |
| 09.08.2024 | Detroit Man Secures $300,000 Payout For False Facial Recognition Arrest | The Detroit PD — or at least a few of its investigators — managed to be the absolute worst at using facial recognition tech. Despite being told by their tech provider that a “match” was never to be considered probable cause for an arrest on... |
| 07.08.2024 | Reddit vai testar IA para resumir conteúdo | App do Reddit no iPhone (Imagem: Ronaldo Gogoni/Tecnoblog)
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O Reddit planeja usar inteligência artificial para resumir e recomendar conteúdo nos resultados de busca, combinando t... |
| 04.08.2024 | The Fine Line Between Law and Liberty: Recent Court Cases Highlight First Amendment and Privacy Concerns | In the realm of law, the balance between rights and regulations often teeters precariously. Recent court cases have illuminated this tension, particularly regarding First Amendment rights and privacy issues surrounding DNA collection. Two c... |
| 02.08.2024 | New Jersey Trying To Salvage Its Sketchy AF Infant DNA Harvesting Program By Claiming It’s All About Health | The state of New Jersey has been sued twice over its infant DNA program. Like the rest of the nation, New Jersey hospitals collect a blood sample from newborns to test them for 60 different health disorders. That part is normal.
But New Jer... |
| 01.08.2024 | Court: Your 1st Amendment Rights End Where A Cop’s Horse’s Ears Begin | Say what you will about the roster of Trump apologists being hosted by the Volokh Conspiracy (and I will say plenty if given the chance), but at least Eugene Volokh continues to surface truly interesting cases. (Ilya Somin remains worth rea... |
| 26.07.2024 | Navigating the Digital Frontier: Accountability and Overreach in Tech Regulation | In the vast landscape of the digital world, two recent events highlight the struggle between accountability and overreach. On one side, Nigeria’s hefty fine against Meta Platforms Inc. for a data breach signals a new era of digital accounta... |
| 25.07.2024 | FTC Oversteps Authority, Demands Unconstitutional Age Verification & Moderation Rules | Call me crazy, but I don’t think it’s okay to go beyond what the law allows even in pursuit of “good” intentions. It is consistently frustrating how this FTC continues to push the boundaries of its own authority, even when the underlying in... |
| 17.07.2024 | Judge Says Rapper Needs To Turn Over Any New Rap Lyrics To The Feds | Serving your time is only part of the bargain. Once released, ex-cons can expect to live life with diminished constitutional rights, at least for as long as they’re on parole or supervised release. (And after that point, they can expect a v... |
| 12.07.2024 | Lawsuit Against ICE And Its Fake College Can Continue, Says Fifth Circuit | During the Trump administration, ICE came up with the highly questionable scheme of setting up a completely fake college solely for the reason of setting up immigrants on H-1B visas for failure. The DHS and ICE created a faux university in ... |
| 03.07.2024 | Baltimore PD Said It Would Stop Scraping Phones With Cellebrite Following A Court Ruling But It Kinda Looks Like It Never Really Did | Showing yet again that you can lead a cop to a court order but you can’t make them follow it, Matthew Petti reports for Reason that the Baltimore PD apparently barely paused its scraping of seized cell phones following a court order telling... |
| 21.06.2024 | Bigot Learns It’s Extremely Easy To Lose A Libel Lawsuit. All You Have To Do Is Engage In Libel. | Definitely loving all of this. And right up front (just in case the defendant thinks she can rob Peter Techdirt to pay Paul Eric Posey), I’ll make it clear this post will be filled with colorful expression, hyperbole, highly opinionated tak... |
| 18.06.2024 | Lawsuit Filed Challenging Constitutionality Of Vast Network Of Illinois License Plate Readers | This lawsuit might be a long shot, but it’s not completely a foregone conclusion at this point. The state of Illinois has tougher privacy laws than most states, which may factor into the judge’s decision. On the other hand, this lawsuit — f... |
| 13.06.2024 | European Content Removal Laws Are Scrubbing The Internet Of Completely Legal Content | A lot of laws have been passed in Europe that regulate the content American companies can carry. Most of these laws were passed to tamp down on speech that would be otherwise legal in the United States, but not so much in Europe where free ... |
| 10.06.2024 | Why Zoomers Should Embrace Bitcoin: An Open Letter to Gen Z | Despite its stature as the oldest and most valuable cryptocurrency, Bitcoin remains an enigma to much of Generation Z due to slanted news coverage. Media reports overemphasize fraud, hacks, and price crashes, deterring many Gen Zers from ta... |
| 08.05.2024 | 5th Circuit Appeals Court Applauds Itself For Properly Handling An Obvious Denial Of Immunity | The Fifth Circuit Appeals Court has a particularly antagonistic relationship with long-held constitutional rights. It is, without argument, the most cop-friendly circuit in the nation — one that has managed to surpass even the generous immu... |
| 29.04.2024 | Judge Tosses Out Many Of The Remaining Charges Against Backpage’s Michael Lacey | When it comes to Backpage.com, the truth has been buried beneath a mountain of political grandstanding and legal theatrics.
There’s the public narrative about Backpage.com, and then there’s the real story. We’ve discussed this before, but i... |
| 24.04.2024 | Why U.S. officials want to ban TikTok | Washington — A law that could lead to a national ban of TikTok cleared the Senate Tuesday night in a bipartisan vote of 79-18, representing one of the most serious threats to the immensely popular social media app's U.S. operations.
Some la... |
| 16.04.2024 | Congress Decides To Give FBI Another Free Pass On Section 702 Abuses | It looks like we’re headed to several more years of the same old abuse. The House vote on Section 702 reauthorization — something postponed several times since EOY2023 due to infighting and out-fighting — has indicated that whatever concern... |
| 15.04.2024 | Partisan Bullshit Tanks House Section 702 Reform Efforts | It took the FBI carelessly, stupidly, and unlawfully targeting members of Trump’s inner circle to make Section 702 program reform a thing that might actually happen.
It’s kind of astounding, considering the Snowden leaks provided a much bet... |
| 11.04.2024 | Police Chief Hailed As A Hero For Crashing Into A Car While Fleeing The Scene Of A Shooting | I’ve been watching this story since late last week. A lot of what I saw then showed this was going to end in embarrassment and exoneration for Albuquerque (NM) police chief Harold Medina. But I still held out hope the city might find someth... |
| 11.04.2024 | Ann Coulter will be in Dallas for a Free Press debate | Author Ann Coulter will be in Dallas on Thursday for a live debate with libertarian magazine Reason editor-at-large Nick Gillespie.
What's happening: The Free Press, a Los Angeles-based digital media company, is hosting live debates across ... |
| 27.03.2024 | Justice Department Wants To Take Its Bite Out Of Apple | Over the course of the last few years, it feels like the FTC & DOJ have slowly started getting better at figuring out how to craft a better antitrust lawsuit. The earliest attempts were often beyond silly, but the more recent cases (whi... |
| 25.03.2024 | Millionth Time Is The Charm: Donald Trump Again Sues A News Agency Over Factual Reporting | “Open up the libel laws!” the man who can’t win consecutive elections (much less a defamation lawsuit) once proclaimed. The Republican Party (or at least its voting bloc) appears willing to give a man who’s enjoyed nothing but unearned oppo... |
| 16.03.2024 | Editorials | Views from the nation’s press | The Las Vegas Review-Journal on how Biden is proposing another massive spending spree:
Ronald Reagan once said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help. We’ll add that, th... |
| 11.03.2024 | Inside Biden’s plan to unlock the housing market’s golden handcuffs | President Biden wants to give Americans a $10,000 tax credit — just for selling their homes.
Why it matters: It's an acknowledgment that the housing market has come to something of a standstill amid sky-high mortgage rates.
The administrati... |
| 29.02.2024 | Alabama Couple Awarded $1 Million Over Warrantless Raid Of Their House That Saw Cops Walk Off With All Their Cash | Very rarely do you see anyone prevail in court when any form of forfeiture is in play. The forfeiture litigation deck is firmly stacked in favor of the government, which rarely needs anything approaching actual proof to walk off with someon... |
| 13.02.2024 | Florida Legislator Files Bill That Would Keep Killer Cops From Being Named And Shamed | Prior restraint but it’s a law.
Everyone saw this coming. “Marsy’s Laws” began popping up all over the nation, written to prevent the naming of crime victims, especially when the victims were minors. It was perceived as a way to protect vic... |
| 13.02.2024 | For Gen Z, a job is just a job | Redeem now
At 25, Kimi Kaneshina isn't where she thought she would be in her career. After a year working as a product manager in Southern California, she was laid off in June. The job was great, but the experience of getting axed shifted h... |
| 12.02.2024 | AI's challenge to internet freedom | In October 2020, observing International Internet Day, I spoke about the threats to Internet freedom. A lot has happened in less than four years, and a lot has changed. But the threats did not go away. On the contrary, Internet users and th... |
| 30.01.2024 | DOJ Decides To Try Backpage’s Michael Lacey For The Third Time After Failing To Get Convictions The First Two Times | The DOJ can be some vindictive sons of bitches. This has nothing to do with justice at all. This is just pure spite.
As has been detailed over and over again, while the public story was that Backpage was taken down for facilitating sex traf... |
| 23.01.2024 | Was The NO AI FRAUD Act Written By A Fraudulent AI? Because Whoever Wrote It Is Hallucinating | A couple of weeks ago, a friend sent me Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar’s and Rep. Madeleine Dean’s proposed NO AI FRAUD Act, which purports to “protect Americans’ individual right to their likeness and voice against AI-generated fakes and forger... |
| 18.01.2024 | Ousted Prosecutor’s First Amendment Lawsuit Against Ron DeSantis Revived By Appeals Court | Ron DeSantis continues to govern Florida as though the Constitution doesn’t exist. It may froth the voting base a bit, but it’s doing almost nothing for DeSantis, much less the people he’s supposed to be serving. |
| 17.01.2024 | Study: Field Drug Tests Generate Nearly 30,000 Bogus Arrests A Year | Field drug tests often seem to be more a triumph of imagination than a triumph of science. They’re cheap. Some popular tests run less than $3/per. That’s the literal selling point. When in doubt, a cop can get probable cause by grabbing a s... |
| 16.01.2024 | Court: Being Portrayed As A Bigot By An NBA Team, Yelled At By An NBA Player Isn’t Actionable | Even though the blog is now often given over to “Trump did nothing wrong” posts and suggestions that social media services engage in “censorship” of so-called “conservatives” (and don’t even think about wandering into the comment section), ... |
| 12.01.2024 | Ohio Court Says Calling Cincinnati Police Officer Ryan Olthaus A Racist Is Protected Speech | There are lots of things you can call veteran Cincinnati police officer Ryan Olthaus. Some people called him a racist, after he appeared to flash the “ok” sign (something associated with [but not limited to] white supremacists) at anti-poli... |
| 04.01.2024 | Federal Court Says First Amendment Protects Engineers Who Offer Expert Testimony Without A License | Regulatory agencies can often be an essential part of day-to-day life, preventing people from engaging in activities they have no expertise in — something that could potentially endanger a lot of people. But they can also be overbearing bru... |
| 30.12.2023 | It’s not all doom and gloom: When cybersecurity gave us hope in 2023 | A funny — but true — joke at TechCrunch is that the security desk might as well be called the Department of Bad News, since, well, have you seen what we’ve covered of late? There is a never-ending supply of devastating breaches, pervasive s... |
| 20.12.2023 | Utah’s Top Court Says Government Can’t Portray Refusals To Unlock Phones As Incriminatory | There’s been plenty of courtroom discussion about Fifth Amendment rights surrounding compelled decryption in recent years. Encryption is on by default on most devices these days. Law enforcement seems to believe all it needs is a warrant to... |
| 18.12.2023 | Google Disrupts Geofence Warrants, Says (Most) Location Data Will Be Stored Locally | For years, Google has collected all the data it can about its users. And for years, it has utilized this data to… well, it depends on who you ask. |
| 16.12.2023 | Google moves to end geofence warrants, a surveillance problem it largely created | Google will soon allow users to store their location data on their devices rather than on Google’s servers, effectively ending a long-running surveillance practice that allowed police and law enforcement to tap Google’s vast banks of locati... |
| 06.12.2023 | Court Tosses Libel Suit Brought Against A Legal Doc Site For ‘Failing’ To Report On A Settlement Agreement | We’ve seen lots of… shall we say… misguided libel lawsuits here at Techdirt. We’ve also seen plenty of lawsuits filed for the sole purpose of bullying someone into silence for reporting inconvenient facts. |
| 23.11.2023 | Here are 7 times older generations slammed Gen Z's work ethic, calling them 'weakened' kids who 'don't seem like they want to work' | Whoopi Goldberg appears on "The View." The View/ABC
The battle between older generations and Gen Z has intensified in recent years as the youngsters enter the workplace.
Some older workers are shaken by Gen Z's bold demands for wo... |
| 20.11.2023 | NY Federal Court: There’s A Right To Record Police Officers And State Law Says That Includes Inside Station Lobbies | The NYPD has plenty of problems with accountability and transparency. The main problem is this: the public wants some of this and the NYPD wants none of this. So, it does stupid things repeatedly that do little more than remind the public i... |
| 16.11.2023 | Indiana’s Top Court Adds More Due Process To Forfeiture, Says A Jury Needs To Be Part Of The Process | The courts in Indiana have made significant moves in recent years to do what the legislature won’t: limit asset forfeiture abuse. |
| 11.11.2023 | What STAT’s opinion section is trying to do | This piece was adapted from a recent First Opinion newsletter. Sign up to receive the First Opinion newsletter every Sunday.
Recently, I made an appeal on Twitter/X (sigh) and Bluesky, asking people to name opinion pieces that stood out to ... |
| 01.11.2023 | Survey: Americans Still Not Sure Where To Set Limits In Their On-Again, Off-Again Relationship With The Government | The good news is Americans are concerned about data privacy. Some Americans always have been but it looks like more people are concerned than usual, which could be a good thing. I’m not sure it will be. As is often the case here in America,... |
| 21.10.2023 | FCC, общественный интернет и 5G: что с сетевым нейтралитетом | В июне мы говорили о затянувшемся кризисе в США из-за попыток реформировать сетевой нейтралитет, а также об инициативах по усилению позиций интернет-провайдеров в разных странах. Разберем, что изменилось с тех пор.
Фотография: Trent Geddes ... |
| 19.10.2023 | Fifth Circuit: The Government Doesn’t Need To Pay You For The Home It Destroyed To Effect An Arrest | “By any means necessary” has been determined to be the same thing as “minimal intrusion” by far too many courts. When cops are searching for suspects, they’re pretty much free to destroy anything that stands between them and their (wanted) ... |
| 19.10.2023 | Hey Ricky Schroder: Porn Is Protected By The 1st Amendment | Do you all remember Ricky Schroder? He is a former child actor who became prominent thanks to TV series like Silver Spoons and NYPD Blue. While I could reminisce about old TV for hours, it is worth noting that Ricky Schroder has become a da... |
| 29.09.2023 | Ohio Cops Respond To Online Sexual Exploitation Report By Offering To Arrest The 11-Year-Old Victim | The most cynical take on this period of historic lows in US crime rates isn’t that we’ve locked up so many people that most crime now takes place in prisons where no one cares (or tabulates) how many criminal acts are still being committed.... |
| 27.09.2023 | Kids Are Smart: Teach Them To Be Safe Online | Last April, Utah Governor Spencer Cox noted that “Kids are smart, they’ll find ways around” Utah’s new social media bans. But that’s not the reason why these laws will fail teens in Utah, Arkansas, and Texas. These laws will fail teens beca... |
| 05.09.2023 | NYPD’s New Labor Day Tradition Involves Drone Surveillance Of People’s Private Parties And Property | Never let it be said the NYPD doesn’t know how to have a good time. The question remains as to whether it’s possible for the NYPD to allow others to have a good time. |
| 21.08.2023 | Indiana City Sued Over State Law Forbidding Citizens From Coming Within 25 Feet Of Cops | It’s been clearly acknowledged by a majority of courts (but not the Supreme Court, alas) that filming cops while they perform their duties is protected by the First Amendment. |
| 11.08.2023 | Politico’s Weird Celebration Of 1st Amendment Violations When It Comes To Adult Content | Here on Techdirt we’ve chronicled the rise of a bunch of terrible age verification laws, including many focused specifically on adult content. We’ve also highlighted how MindGeek, the company behind a bunch of largest adult content sites, i... |
| 07.08.2023 | After Bodycam Footage Undoes Its Narrative, NYPD Agrees To Pay $13 Million To Anti-Police Violence Protesters | Cops really hate policing protests that target police. But that has been the reality since Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin ripped the bandage off an unhealed wound by placing his knee on the neck of unarmed black man George Floyd, ... |
| 26.07.2023 | Federal Judge Says State Troopers’ ‘Kansas Two Step’ Bullshit Violates The Rights Of Drivers | For years, Kansas Highway Patrol troopers have stopped motorists on interstate highways. That’s the job. But the job became much more interesting when neighboring states legalized marijuana. Colorado led the way, with others following, but ... |
| 24.07.2023 | Federal Court Says Anyone Can Be A Journalist While Upholding The Right To Record Police Officers | Police officers are quick to argue that anything people do in public doesn’t have an expectation of privacy. They have also been quick to argue (until precedent made it mostly futile) that anything they do in public shouldn’t be documented,... |
| 11.07.2023 | Ninth Circuit Dumps Oregon’s ‘Surreptitious Recording’ Law, Handing A First Amendment Win To Project Veritas | The worst people can make the best case law. That’s the way it works here in the United States, where the court system occasionally works like it should and the old “disagree with what you say but defend your right to say it” axiom is uphel... |
| 05.07.2023 | Court Tosses Evidence After PD’s Own Pole Camera Undercuts Officer’s Claims About Seeing A Gun | Does this look like someone carrying a gun? |
| 05.07.2023 | The FTC’s Surprisingly Weak Case Against Amazon | Way back in 2005 I wrote about the launch of Amazon Prime, talking about the trade offs of joining this “shipping club” as I called it then. If you look at that post now, it has nearly 600 comments. However, the first comment didn’t even ge... |
| 15.06.2023 | DOJ Asks Judge To Block Backpage From Talking About Legal Ads, First Amendment, Section 230 | The DOJ must not have much confidence in its case against Backpage executives Michael Lacey and James Larkin. This prosecution is now more than a half-decade old and the government still hasn’t found a way to lock up the many Backpage emplo... |
| 13.06.2023 | Does The Government Have The Right To Keep And Arm Bears (With Cameras)? | No matter what differences of opinion I might have with Volokh Conspiracy contributors, it must be said the site (now hosted at Reason after a brief run at the Washington Post) manages to surface truly interesting cases on a regular basis. |
| 08.06.2023 | OpenAI Sued For Defamation Over ChatGPT ‘Hallucination’; But Who Should Actually Be Liable? | Lots of people have been waiting for this, but it’s finally happened: someone has sued ChatGPT maker OpenAI over an AI “hallucination” (i.e., confidently spewing out something that is blatantly wrong). The complaint, filed by Mark Walters, ... |
| 07.06.2023 | ChatGPT ‘hallucination’ falsely said radio host embezzled money, suit says | More On: chatgpt
OpenAI’s boss complained chip shortage ‘delaying’ ChatGPT plans, deleted post says ‘Black Mirror’ creator used ChatGPT to write an episode: ‘It was s–t’ OpenAI boss — who warned AI poses ‘risk of extinction’ to humanity — i... |
| 31.05.2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: When AI Poses an Existential Risk to Your Law License | This episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast features the second half of my interview with Paul Stephan, author of The World Crisis and International Law. But it begins the way many recent episodes have begun, with the latest AI news. And, since it... |
| 30.05.2023 | Maryland Cops Can’t Seem To Understand Why Marijuana Legalization Means They Can’t Search Cars Just Because They Smell Marijuana | Everyone likes an easy day at the office. Cops are no exception. They like easy excuses to disregard the Fourth Amendment. Pretextual stops are how cop business has been done for years. Any missing tail light or (subjectively) too dark wind... |
| 30.05.2023 | No ChatGPT in my court: Judge orders all AI-generated content must be declared and checked | Few lawyers would be foolish enough to let an AI make their arguments, but one already did, and Judge Brantley Starr is taking steps to ensure that debacle isn’t repeated in his courtroom.
The Texas federal judge has added a requirement tha... |
| 25.05.2023 | Judge Tosses Evidence After Government Took More Than Three Years To Crack A Suspect’s Phone | A robbery/kidnapping case allegedly implicating business owner and immigrant Evgeni Kopankov has resulted in the government losing the evidence it took it oh so long to obtain. And the government has only itself to blame for how this went d... |
| 23.05.2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Sam Altman-Fried Comes to Washington | This episode features part 1 of our two-part interview with Paul Stephan, author of The World Crisis and International Law—a deeper and more entertaining read than the title suggests. Paul lays out the long historical arc that links the 198... |
| 22.05.2023 | Protestors at US Psychiatric Convention Rally for Ban on Torturous Electroshock | The protest was organized by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a mental health industry watchdog that helped get electroshock treatment prohibited for use in minors in California in 1976.
Protestors call for American Psychiatric Asso... |
| 19.05.2023 | Court To Donald Trump: Journalists Encouraging Someone To Break A Confidentiality Agreement Is Protected Speech | Lame duck president and serial bad faith litigant Donald Trump has yet again been told his arguments are bad and he should feel bad. The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Suing sued multiple times over the publication of a book by his niece, Mary Trump... |
| 12.05.2023 | FBI Buys Confirmation Bias, Asks Cop Shops To Show Them On The Req Form Where Encryption Hurt Them | It has been more than 1,800 days since the FBI said it would correct its incorrect total of (allegedly) uncrackable encrypted devices in its possession. Back in the glory days of its “going dark” narrative, the FBI claimed it had more than ... |
| 11.05.2023 | Fear-based messaging doesn’t stop drug use. But it does make things worse | It “rots” flesh. It “tears” bone. It will turn you into a “zombie.” According to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and his colleagues, these are some of the reasons we should fear and criminalize xylazine, a veterinary sedative and paink... |
| 10.05.2023 | House GOP Immigration Bill Would Expand Federal Power Over Citizens | The United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. House Republicans have introduced a sweeping ... [+] immigration bill that would likely affect many U.S. citizens if it were to become law. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| 09.05.2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: How Worried Should We Be About “Existential” AI Risk? | The “godfather of AI” has left Google, offering warnings about the existential risks for humanity of the technology. Mark MacCarthy calls those risks a fantasy, and a debate breaks out between Mark, Nate Jones, and me. There’s more agreemen... |
| 24.04.2023 | New York Court Rules State Police Can’t Keep Hiding Its Misconduct Records From The Public | In 2020, the New York State legislature finally took a tool of opacity out of law enforcement’s hands. For forty years, law enforcement agencies had the option of rejecting officer misconduct records requests by citing 50-a, the law that sa... |
| 23.04.2023 | Texas Looks To The Free Market To Tackle Housing Costs | Texas has done such a great job of attracting residents and businesses that some negative side effects of this success are starting to show. Consider high housing prices, which hit public-sector workers in major cities, such as police offic... |
| 19.04.2023 | Financial Services Will Embrace Generative AI Faster Than You Think | Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been used in the financial services industry for more than a decade, enabling enhancements that range from better underwriting to improved foundational fraud scores. Generative AI via large ... |
| 03.04.2023 | RESTRICT Act — новый законопроект поставит под угрозу работу VPN в США | Американский сенат рассматривает законопроект, позволяющий ограничивать работу иностранных социальных сетей и других цифровых сервисов на территории страны. Правозащитники считают его неконституционным и видят в размытых формулировках прост... |
| 03.04.2023 | Far Right Troll ‘Ricky Vaughn’ Convicted Of Election Interference For Tricking People Into Voting By Phone | Earlier this year, a federal court dismissed almost all of a far right troll’s challenge to the criminal case brought against him by the DOJ. “Ricky Vaughn” is a notorious social media presence — one who’s been repeatedly suspended and bann... |
| 30.03.2023 | Senator Warner’s RESTRICT Act Is Designed To Create The Great Firewall Of America | Earlier this month, we wrote about Mark Warner’s RESTRICT Act, mainly in the context of how it appeared to be kneejerk legislating in response to the moral panic around TikTok. |
| 22.03.2023 | After Iraq: How the U.S. Failed to Fully Learn the Lessons of a Disastrous Intervention | When President Barack Obama admonished his foreign policy team, “Don’t do stupid stuff” (he used an earthier phrase), there was no real question what he had in mind. In 2002, as an Illinois state senator, Obama had warned that a U.S. invasi... |
| 22.03.2023 | Congress Should Reform Section 230 in Light of the Oral Argument in Gonzalez | The plaintiff in Gonzalez v. Google is seeking a ruling that Section 230’s grant of immunity to internet companies permits suits for aiding and abetting terrorism when a social media company recommends terrorist material. Based on the Supre... |
| 14.03.2023 | Whole Foods co-founder John Mackey, who is worth $75 million, says that business is 'judged and attacked' by society. 'We are the real value creators in the world.' | Former Whole Foods CEO John Mackey said last week that businesspeople like him are "judged and attacked" in society. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson
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Whole Foods co-founder John Mackey thinks business is "judged and attacked... |
| 09.03.2023 | The Justice Department investigated Jeffrey Epstein's death. Then it went silent. | Redeem now
Jeffrey Epstein's death in a federal jail was seen as a shocking Justice Department failure. Over three years later, the DOJ inspector general hasn't released the results of its investigation. Epstein's accusers — and his brother... |
| 07.03.2023 | Trump’s ‘Freedom Cities’ Ignore America’s Real Urban Needs | Salem, NH - Former President Donald Trump in New Hampshire. Trump recently called for constructing ... [+] federally funded "freedom cities." (Photo by Cheryl Senter for the Washington Post)The Washington Post via Getty Images |
| 22.02.2023 | New York Court Says Fox, Rudy Giuliani Can’t Escape Defamation Lawsuit Over BS Stolen Election Claims | Donald Trump and his supporters are unable to process facts. That inability led to many of them engaging in questionable election-related lawsuits and extremely questionable election-related public statements. Alleging a “stolen” election, ... |
| 21.02.2023 | Trump has been attacking DeSantis, who was once a political ally. Here's how it all fell apart ahead of the 2024 election. | President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hold a COVID-19 and storm preparedness roundtable in Belleair, Florida, on July 31, 2020. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images
Trump first mentioned DeSantis on Twitter almost 11 years ago.
His... |
| 17.02.2023 | Next Week, The Supreme Court Could Destroy Everything Good About The Internet | Next week, the Supreme Court will hold the oral arguments in the Gonzalez and Taamneh cases. Gonzalez is the main show (and I’m somewhat surprised they didn’t have the hearings on the same day). There were dozens upon dozens of amicus brief... |
| 17.02.2023 | Some Guy Thinks A Legal Doc Website’s Failure To Report On His Settlement Is Somehow Defamatory | Lots of people have really strange ideas about what defamation entails. Far too many people believe defamation occurs anytime their feelings are hurt or they aren’t portrayed in the best light possible. |
| 08.02.2023 | Trump’s Stupid Libel Lawsuit Against The Washington Post Tossed By Federal Court | Mr. “I’m going to open up the libel laws” never got around to opening them up. It was another pet project for Trump, one constantly just another couple weeks away from achieving. “Strong looks” were presumably taken by Trump’s legal experts... |
