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DOJ Using Gang, Terrorist Prosecutors To Ensure People Opposed To Trump Are Treated Like Gang Members, Terrorists

1 week 3 days ago
The authoritarianism has been out in the open pretty much since day one with this presidency. Things that leak out around the edges — unaccompanied by official statements, announcements, or randomly-capitalized Truth Social posts — would embarrass any normal administration. But with this administration, new information about new awfulness rarely manages to provoke even a […]
Tim Cushing

Meta’s AI ‘Perv Glasses’ Now Come With Stupid Comcast-esque Usage Restrictions

1 week 3 days ago
Despite a lot of pretense, Meta, permanently deadbolted to Mark Zuckerberg’s outsized ego, simply isn’t an interesting, ethical, competent, or innovative company. They’re mostly an ad monopoly pretending to be Apple. They poured untold billions of dollars into their soggy and broadly uninteresting metaverse gambit, now they’re pouring untold billions of dollars into their fourth-place […]
Karl Bode

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

1 week 4 days ago
This week, both our winners on the insightful side come in response to the German court ruling that Google is liable for false claims in its AI overviews. In first place, it’s an anonymous comment about Bruce Schneier’s reaction to the ruling: In second place, it’s A Guy with the first comment on the post: […]
Leigh Beadon

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Making The Best Of A Ban Situation

1 week 6 days ago
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. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on […]
Mike Masnick

T-Mobile Jacks Up Prices For Everybody, Ignores Years Of ‘Uncarrier’ Promises

1 week 6 days ago
In the wake of the Sprint T-Mobile merger, wireless carriers immediately stopped trying to compete on price (exactly what deal critics had warned would happen when you reduce sector competition). T-Mobile, which once tried to differentiate itself as the consumer-friendly “uncarrier,” almost immediately began behaving just like AT&T and Verizon, starting with firing 9,000+ people. It’s how […]
Karl Bode

Thin-Skinned Palantir Loses Its Bid To Bully A Swiss Magazine Into Publishing Its Rebuttals To Embarrassing Reporting

2 weeks ago
Earlier this year we wrote about the ridiculous thin-skinned executives at Palantir suing a small independent Swiss online magazine, Republik, that had reported on the great lengths the company had gone to, trying to get the Swiss government to purchase Palantir’s surveillance technology. Palantir knew they couldn’t sue for defamation because, you know, everything Republik […]
Mike Masnick

Daily Deal: MYNT3D Professional Printing 3D Pen with OLED Display

2 weeks ago
The MYNT3D 3D Printing Pen is a handheld creative tool that allows users to draw in three dimensions using heated plastic filament. Instead of printing from a machine, this pen lets you manually create 3D objects by extruding melted plastic that quickly hardens. It uses FDM technology similar to 3D printers and is designed for […]
Daily Deal

Supreme Court Decides Not To Destroy The First Amendment Just Yet

2 weeks ago
While we’ve been discussing a bunch of other Supreme Court end-of-term decisions this week, we should also call out two decisions the Supreme Court thankfully decided not to make. These non-decisions continue to help preserve First Amendment speech protections. First, and most importantly, they rejected Alan Dershowitz’s attempt to appeal his laughably embarrassing SLAPP suit […]
Mike Masnick

The DEA Is A Domestic Terrorist Organization That’s Trying To Kill Children

2 weeks 1 day ago
Plenty of people are going to disagree with this headline. But why should I bother defending it when I can let the government dig its own hole? From Executive Order 14367, issued by President Trump last December: Illicit fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic.  Two milligrams, an almost undetectable trace amount […]
Tim Cushing

Daily Deal: Luminar Neo Bundle

2 weeks 1 day ago
The Luminar Neo Bundle includes a one time purchase of the software, an introductory course on how to use it, and 6 add-ons. Luminar Neo is an easy-to-use photo editing software that empowers photography lovers to express the beauty they imagined using innovative tools. Luminar Neo was built from the ground up to be different […]
Daily Deal

The Supreme Court Upholds The Constitution. Barely.

2 weeks 1 day ago
Look, 5-4 Supreme Court decisions count just as much as 9-0 ones, and a 5-4 decision getting it right is still a win, but for a number of reasons, the 5-4 decision in Trump v. Barbara, regarding the issue of birthright citizenship is terrifying. This isn’t a complicated issue. This isn’t an issue that should […]
Mike Masnick