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Trump Launches America’s Newest Concentration Camp, Complete With Tacky Merch

1 month 3 weeks ago
Not content with just shipping people to a foreign concentration camp, Donald Trump now has his own, homegrown concentration camp in Florida. Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gleefully toured the hastily constructed concentration camp in the Florida Everglades, obnoxiously referred to as Alligator Alcatraz, in reference to (1) the infamous […]
Mike Masnick

Daily Deal: Academy of Educational Engineering

1 month 3 weeks ago
The Academy of Educational Engineering is a premier platform tailored for aspiring and professional geeks. This all-in-one educational ecosystem is designed to empower you with expert-level knowledge and hands-on experience across embedded systems, electronics, IoT, and software development. As a premium member, you’ll access comprehensive tools, engaging projects, personalized feedback, and direct mentorship, helping you […]
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Why Mamdani’s Refusal To Condemn Speech He Never Made Is Good Free Speech Advocacy

1 month 3 weeks ago
At a time when politicians on both sides reflexively call for censorship and speech policing, it’s refreshing to see someone actually defend free speech principles—especially when it would be politically easier to cave. That’s exactly what New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani did when NBC’s Meet the Press tried to pressure him into […]
Mike Masnick

Elon Musk’s Starlink Adds $750 Congestion Charge

1 month 3 weeks ago
Republicans are rewriting an infrastructure bill grant program to redirect billions of dollars to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite broadband service. The claim is that this is necessary because Starlink is the perfect solution for the country’s rural broadband users and deserves this money. The reality is that Starlink continues to show that it lacks the […]
Karl Bode

States Need To Mimic Colorado Law Now That HHS Is A Dumpster Fire

1 month 4 weeks ago
At the beginning of this year, the Colorado state legislature introduced HB25-1097, a state law that updated the state’s disease control statutes. Eventually signed into law by the Governor in April, the bill does a whole bunch of things related to public health: repealed the state’s epidemic response committee, set a schedule for reviewing the […]
Dark Helmet

AMC’s Latest Innovation: More Ads At The Movie Theater

1 month 4 weeks ago
During pandemic lockdowns, you might recall how AMC executives threw a temper tantrum because companies like Comcast/NBC began experimenting with more innovative movie release windows. AMC execs were mad because the pandemic highlighted how the 90-day gap between the time a movie appears in theaters and its streaming or DVD release was exposed as both dated and […]
Karl Bode

The Supreme Court Just Discovered Nationwide Injunctions Are Bad—Right As Trump Needs Them Gone

1 month 4 weeks ago
The Supreme Court just discovered that nationwide injunctions are problematic. How convenient that this revelation came right as Donald Trump returned to office with plans to rule by executive fiat. Last week’s big Supreme Court decision in Trump v. CASA was trumpeted in the media as being about birthright citizenship, even though that was only […]
Mike Masnick

Daily Deal: The Complete Photoshop Master Class Bundle

1 month 4 weeks ago
It’s no secret that Photoshop can be a bit dense when you’re first getting your feet wet with it. That’s why it pays to have a expert instructors show you the ropes. Led by a Photoshop pro, the Complete Photoshop Master Class Bundle will help you master Photoshop CC and become an expert—no prior experience […]
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Supreme Court Cripples FCC Further, Making Robocall Enforcement Likely Impossible

1 month 4 weeks ago
Whether by dodgy Supreme Court ruling, executive order, mindless DOGE cuts, or captured regulators, the U.S. right wing, usually in lockstep with consolidated corporate power, are making massive, historic, and potentially irreversible inroads in destroying all federal corporate oversight, labor protections, public safety provisions, environmental standards, and regulatory autonomy. I bolded that last bit because it’s not clear […]
Karl Bode

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

1 month 4 weeks ago
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment on last week’s post, where I had to forego most of the Funny section due to a lack of candidates: To be fair, it seems like there’s less and less to be laughing at, except as a gallows humor coping […]
Leigh Beadon

This Week In Techdirt History: June 22nd – 28th

2 months ago
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we published our popular reference post on all the ways people are wrong about Section 230. It was needed because, as we covered in that week’s episode of the podcast, there were a whole lot of attacks on the law, most notably from some of the provisions of […]
Leigh Beadon

Chinese Government Streisands Banned Game In Hong Kong

2 months ago
When you’re a huge country, and a communist one to boot, the Streisand Effect is a thing that’s just going to inevitably happen to you at times. China has definitely lived this experience. The government is the unfortunate combination of incredibly authoritarian and completely devoid of a sense of humor. The result is the serious […]
Dark Helmet

Creativity & Technological Evolution 

2 months ago
This series of posts explores how we can rethink the intersection of AI, creativity, and policy. From examining outdated regulatory metaphors to questioning copyright norms and highlighting the risks of stifling innovation, each post addresses a different piece of the AI puzzle. Together, they advocate for a more balanced, forward-thinking approach that acknowledges the potential […]
Mike Masnick

Tennessee’s Law On School Threats Ensnared Students Who Posed No Risks. Two States Passed Similar Laws.

2 months ago
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. New laws in Georgia and New Mexico are requiring harsher punishments for students — or anyone else — who make threats against schools, despite growing evidence that a similar law is ensnaring students who posed no risk to others. ProPublica and WPLN News have documented how […]
Mike Masnick

The Problem Isn’t Whether The JD Vance Meme Story Is True—It’s That It’s So Believable After Everything The Trump Regime Has Done

2 months ago
Much of what we’ve written about regarding the Trump regime’s nonsensical and ridiculous immigration policies have focused on how they’re grabbing people off the streets, or disappearing them to random foreign gulags without due process. But we’ve also talked about the absolute insanity of US immigration policy as it pertains to foreigners traveling to the […]
Mike Masnick