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No Personal Liability For DOGE Yet, But With Two More Lawsuits We Get Closer

1 month ago
I’m going to keep pounding the drum for personal liability against Musk and DOGE, partly to scare them into backing off from their unlawful seizure of our government, and eventually to compensate us for the immense harm they’ve caused. So far it doesn’t seem like anyone has tried to personally sue them for damages, but […]
Cathy Gellis

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Backdoors And Backsteps

1 month 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. In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online […]
Mike Masnick

Trump’s DOJ Corruption Laid Bare… By His Own Conservative Prosecutors

1 month ago
Updated: make sure you read the update at the end of this story. Here’s a fun thing about corruption investigations: Usually when prosecutors uncover one quid pro quo, they don’t resolve it by offering an even bigger quid pro quo. And yet, that appears to be exactly what’s happening with NYC Mayor Eric Adams, who […]
Mike Masnick

Drugs Have Won The War On Drugs: Drugged-Up Rat Infestation Edition

1 month ago
Perhaps the only headline just as repeatable as “‘No Way to Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” is this other banger from The Onion: Drugs Win Drug War. 50+ years of hardline prohibition have only resulted in better prices, better purity, and a slew of states legalizing or decriminalizing personal use amounts […]
Tim Cushing

Daily Deal: Linux/UNIX Training Bundle

1 month ago
Linux and UNIX operating systems have become increasingly popular in commercial computing environments. Due to their rapid growth in today’s businesses, Linux/UNIX administrators have also become very much in demand. This Linux/UNIX Training Bundle will help you learn the knowledge and skills to install, configure, & support a Linux/UNIX server, and more. It’s on sale […]
Daily Deal

Price Hikes, Enshittification Trigger 700K Customer Losses At Disney+, ESPN+

1 month ago
Now that streaming subscriber growth has slowed, we’ve noted repeatedly how the streaming TV sector is falling into all of the bad habits that ultimately doomed traditional cable TV. That has involved chasing pointless “growth of growth’s sake” megamergers and imposing bottomless price hikes and new annoying restrictions (like equating password sharing with “piracy”) — […]
Karl Bode

Democrats And The Price Of Protection

1 month ago
While democracy burns, corporate America is busy checking the wind direction. Google renames the Gulf of Mexico to flatter a wannabe autocrat’s ego. Business leaders draft contingency plans for the end of constitutional government. And the Democratic Party, funded by these same genuflecting corporations, responds with all the urgency of someone scheduling a dental cleaning. This isn’t […]
Mike Masnick

Daily Deal: The Complete Master GIMP Design Bundle

1 month ago
Go from absolute zero to GIMP pro with this comprehensive 9 course bundle. Jump into the Complete Master GIMP Design Bundle, and you’ll go all the way from installing the GIMP software and configuring it to run on Windows, to producing banners, book covers and even memes that you’ll display using Facebook and other social […]
Daily Deal

Sony, MarkScan Go On ‘Bloodborne’ DMCA Blitz Of Fun, Fan-Made Creations

1 month ago
It’s always interesting to me to see companies identify what they see as a threat by looking at what type of content they attempt to DMCA or otherwise disappear. When actual direct and flagrant wholesale copying of a digital product occurs, you can understand why the takedowns are issued. We might still want to argue […]
Dark Helmet

Medical Equipment Maker Terumo Cardiovascular Trying To Monopolize Repair Of Costly Gear

1 month ago
Terumo Cardiovascular, a company that makes six-figure medical equipment used in heart surgeries, is apparently keen on attracting the ire of the “right to repair” movement. But given the Trump administration’s assault on state and federal consumer protection, it’s not clear they’ll face many meaningful repercussions for it. In a letter obtained by 404 Media, […]
Karl Bode

Steve Wynn Asks Supreme Court To Gut Key First Amendment Standard

1 month ago
Billionaires are already deleting parts of our government, as well as various safety mechanisms on the internet that sought to minimize hate and abuse. Do we also want them to be able to rewrite our understanding of the First Amendment? Steve Wynn’s latest Supreme Court petition represents a dangerous escalation in the ongoing assault on […]
Mike Masnick