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One very important thing to understand in the conversation about online speech is that there are many different kinds of online communities, big and small, and they all have their own needs when it comes to rules and governance. This fact is a key element of a new book, Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online […]

This headline is like a version of Mad Libs for Techdirt titles. We’ve been covering the problem of copyright trolls for many years. And lately, we’ve been covering the scammy uses of generative AI tools. And we’ve absolutely covered quite a few SEO scam stories, where people try to use some scam or another to […]

I guess being incarcerated isn’t dehumanizing enough. Being treated like barely sentient meat deserving of any abuse perpetrated by guards or other inmates just isn’t enough oppression, apparently. This country talks a big game about rehabilitation and “paying your debt to society,” but when it comes to the day-to-day business of incarcerating people at a […]

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Over the last few years, Elon Musk has repeatedly said that his definition of free speech means “that which matches the law.” He says this whenever anyone calls out that he’s not actually the free speech absolutist he claims to be. He regularly and expeditiously caves in to censorship demands, without any protest, from authoritarian […]

The FCC is expected to vote to restore net neutrality rules on April 25. And while there’re early indications that the rules may be slightly weaker than those stripped away by the Trump administration — and absolutely no indication the rules could meaningfully impact telecom revenues — telecom giants have already begun their whining about […]

In all of the posts we have done on the topic of video game preservation, I have often made the point that it’s probably long past time that there be some sort of political action to address the real or potential disappearance of cultural output that is occurring. The way this works far too often […]

While it’s not ultimately a factor in the court’s decision, it’s nice to see a court call out biased policing while discussing the merits of the case. This decision [PDF], handed down by an Illinois state appellate court, makes it pretty clear the court believes this stop would never had happened if the driver happened […]