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This Week In Techdirt History: October 13th – 19th

1 year 8 months ago
Five Years Ago This week in 2019, states were rushing to protect net neutrality followed by the court ruling that shot down the FCC’s attempt to prevent them. Marc Benioff was being extremely hypocritical about Section 230, the guy who tried to extort YouTubers with bogus DMCA takedowns agreed to a settlement, and a guest […]
Leigh Beadon

Existential anxiety and civilizational ennui

1 year 8 months ago
It was actually this sentence that initially got my attention in Ross Douthat's column today: Existential anxiety and civilizational ennui, not rationalist optimism and humanist ambition, are the defining moods of secular liberalism nowadays. Um, what?
Kevin Drum

Man stabbed in the back while walking on Washington Avenue

1 year 8 months ago
ST. LOUIS - St. Louis Metropolitan Police Officers responded to a call for a stabbing at the Central Library located in the 1300 block of Olive Street around 1 p.m. Friday. Police say a man was stabbed in the back while walking on Washington Avenue. Officers report that a 31-year-old man told a security guard [...]
Jaime Travers