Elon Musk’s legal team probably thought they had the perfect strategy: file a SLAPP suit in a court with a judge known for partisan rulings, including rulings benefiting Elon himself in the past. But they didn’t count on one thing – the judge recusing himself. Last week, Elon sued GARM and the others, claiming that […]
[Extremely War Boys voice]: Oh, what a lovely mess! The problem with a story like this is that a recap will run a couple thousand words before you even get into the new stuff. To quote another cult classic movie, “Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.” Marion Police Chief […]
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I know that many Elon Musk supporters assume that my mockery of the many stupid things that Elon does means that I won’t give him a fair shake. But when he does something good, I’m happy to highlight it and give him kudos. In this case, he’s right (if a bit provocative) in telling EU […]
Fifth-generation wireless (5G) was supposed to change the world. According to wireless carriers and gear makers, not only was it supposed to bring about the “fourth industrial revolution,” it was supposed to usher forth amazing new smart cities and help with cancer treatment. Wireless giants routinely portrayed a world full of 5G powered robots giving tattoos or engaging in remote […]
It was just a few months ago that we had some fun with Logitech over it’s amazing, never been done before AI mouse… that was actually just a rehash of a previous mouse that had a button that could be used to launch a ChatGPT prompt. So it wasn’t so much an AI mouse, as […]
We fought a revolution for this?!? This is the new America: a loose confederacy (yes, I’m using that correctly [and pointedly]) of states that desire to see us returned to the harsh reality our founding fathers (and colonists before them) left their homelands to escape. The shift of the so-called “conservative movement” to the extreme […]
For years now, the UN has been trying to strike a deal on a “Cybercrime Treaty.” As with nearly every attempt by the UN to craft treaties around internet regulation, it’s been a total mess. The concept, enabling countries to have agreed upon standards to fight cybercrime, may seem laudable. But when it’s driven by […]
In one of several ongoing campaigns of hate in our country, the Iowa legislature passed a law that not only changed what schools could teach, but what students could be allowed to read. First, let’s get to the changes to the state’s health curriculum, which is nothing less than the erasure of HIV/AIDS sufferers. The […]
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It seems to be a rather common phenomenon, but various major newspaper opinion columnists love opining on the First Amendment and free speech without ever bothering to, you know, understand them. Edward Luce, a long-term journalist and commentator, and scion of an aristocratic British family, is currently the “chief US commentator” (what a title!) for […]
Last month we noted how the brunchlords in charge of Paramount (CBS) decided to eliminate decades of MTV News journalism and Comedy Central history as part of their ongoing and utterly mindless “cost saving” efforts. It was just the latest casualties in an ever-consolidating and very broken U.S. media business routinely run by some of the least […]
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous piece-by-piece response to a comment questioning the truth about what happened with GARM: In second place, it’s Guiltypanacea with a related comment about Elon’s lawsuit: Pretty cute to claim GARM violated antitrust laws while also claiming Twitter is the singular “global town […]
Five Years Ago This week in 2019, “free speech defender” Devin Nunes filed more lawsuits against critics and vowed they weren’t the last, the New York Times joined the parade of media organizations that were totally and completely misrepresenting Section 230, and the recording industry was reaping what it sowed in the world of copyright […]
You know, when you’ve written as much as I have about trademark disputes, there are times when you think you’ve seen everything, only to have the universe remind you that the depth of silliness around trademarks can always get deeper. The subject of today’s conversation is going to be a certification mark. While afforded similar […]
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online […]
You may have heard that Elon Musk and the UK are fighting. And both of them are looking ridiculous. Riots are happening across the UK in response to the stabbing deaths of three children. The background for the riots is that a bunch of shitlord agitators used Telegram to organize further nonsense on other social […]
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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 its own, multiple PD investigators decided a match — no […]
Up is down, left is right, day is night. And now, to Jim Jordan and Elon Musk, clear, direct government censorship is, apparently, “free speech.” This isn’t a huge surprise, but on Thursday, the World Federation of Advertising shut down GARM, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, in response to legal threats from ExTwitter and […]
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