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24 Feb 2014, 8:05 pm
[Cook County Record] U.K. aims to tweak existing X-rated internet filters to block “extremist” websites [TechDirt] Europe’s hate speech laws may actually prepare the ground for sowers of hate [Jamie Kirchick, Tablet] Public Citizen’s Paul Alan Levy, ACLU of Maryland assist anonymous blogger targeted by Brett Kimberlin [Consumer Law & Policy] “Rhode Island Cops Vigilant In Face of Scourge of People Making Fun of State Representative Scott… [read post]
24 Aug 2006, 11:00 pm
[Hat tip to Techdirt for posting on this case.] [read post]
7 Jun 2018, 2:55 am
” [John Pfaff Twitter thread, earlier here, here, and here] “CBP Sued For Seizing $41,000 From Airline Passenger, Then Refusing To Give It Back Unless She Promised Not To Sue” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt] Even when suspects are in fact guilty, lies told to justify searches “corrupt the law in order to enforce it. [read post]
10 Mar 2012, 3:11 pm
” [@Popehat on Gawker item] “Key Techdirt SOPA/PIPA Post Censored By Bogus DMCA Takedown Notice” [Mike Masnick] Overly aggressive trademark lawyers? [read post]
20 Apr 2018, 3:05 am
[Mike Masnick, TechDirt] “16 Pulse survivors sue Google, Facebook, Twitter for ‘supporting’ ISIS” [Daniel Dahm, WKRG Orlando] Not the group it used to be: ACLU calls for government-owned broadband, claims First Amendment may require as opposed to forbid state-operated communications infrastructure [Randolph May and Theodore Bolema, Free State Foundation] Cato amicus commercial speech triple-header: Virginia’s ban on promoting happy hours (bars may hold… [read post]
18 Dec 2019, 3:01 am
” [Alex Tabarrok on Esteban Mendez-Chacon and Diana Van Patten paper] “I’ve often noted to people that [lawyers who] are unethical at the start of representation are not likely to be ethical later as their interests are directed to the self and not the client” [Eric Turkewitz on NYPD 911-call-injury-referral scandal, earlier] “The Color Magenta, Or How T-Mobile Thinks It Owns A General Color” [Timothy Geigner, TechDirt] Tags: Baltimore, chasing… [read post]
17 Jul 2010, 2:43 am
[BUT see below]TechDirt wrote:TorrentFreak speculates that this may be a part of the recent Homeland Security efforts to shut down file sharing site, and points to some evidence that there were at least a few Blogetery blogs that shared copyrighted works. [read post]
7 Nov 2018, 2:56 am
Main reasons: 1) Small states get rounded up or down; 2) demographics change in existing districts over 10-year Census cycle especially where new housing is being built [Hristina Byrnes, 24/7 Wall Street, I’m quoted] “‘Outrageously excessive’ requests for attorney fees can be altogether denied, 3rd Circuit says” [ABA Journal] Prenda copyright troll Paul Hansmeier, who also did mass ADA filings, pleads guilty to fraud and money laundering charges [Dan Browning,… [read post]
2 Aug 2010, 4:30 am
Techdirt offers more coverage under the blunt headline “Righthaven Ramping Up its Copyright Trolling Business. [read post]
27 Nov 2017, 3:01 am
Coleman, Amy Howe/ SCOTUSBlog, Eugene Volokh, Howard Wasserman] Roy Moore threatens Alabama newspapers with legal action, newspapers fire back with preserve-your-records-or-risk-sanctions warning [Erik Wemple, Washington Post] Section 230 at risk: proposed amendment to trafficking bill doesn’t go nearly far enough to remove chilling effect on online speech [R Street coalition letter, Mike Godwin, The Hill, earlier] “Judge Smacks Down Another Anonymous Cop’s Lawsuit Against… [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 5:30 am
Other user-produced blogs like Techdirt, Mashable, and any other techy blogs that relate to social networks. [read post]
31 Mar 2014, 5:00 am
The irony is that, as others have pointed out (Boing Boing, Techdirt), Yee was previously best-known for sponsoring AB 1179, which banned the sale of violent video games to anyone under 18 because of the clear connection between those games and violent behavior. [read post]
14 Jan 2009, 1:33 am
" At issue here is not YouTube - they are just following the DMCA notice-and-takedown system - but rather the DMCA system itself, which regularly demonstrates the chilling effect of taking down content without any analysis of whether there is actually an infringement.Update: Coverage of this story from TechDirt and Ars Technica. [read post]
5 Jun 2010, 6:22 pm
For background on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, visit the excellent Wikipedia page.Last week my post on ACTA was picked up in a very kind and thoughtful review by Mike Masnik, of Techdirt, here. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 4:55 am
And this article by Mike Masnick of Techdirt entitled The Paris Attacks Were An Intelligence Community Failure, Not An ‘Encryption’ Problem. [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 5:50 am
[Mike Masnick, TechDirt] Cory King case: “Not Everything Can Be a Federal Crime” [Ilya Shapiro, Cato] “Ban on smoking in cars with young children clears Md. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 5:37 am
Setting aside the legal issues, and the debate over whether such patents are a good or bad thing for innovation, consider this point of view by Mike Masnick of Techdirt: But, really, all Apple has done with this lawsuit is to signal to the world (loudly) that hey, we’re really freaking scared that Samsung has built a better product than we have. [read post]
18 Aug 2008, 9:14 am
We've discussed non-competes often here in the past; Techdirt made much the same point a year and a half back.And then there is from Networkworld, Non-compete pacts called bad for tech innovation:Some instead seek employment in large companies that can defend them against litigation related to non-compete agreements, said Lee Fleming, an associate professor at Harvard who is conducting a research project into the subject. [read post]
19 Jul 2016, 9:05 pm
John Doe (“motion seems more like a gimmick designed to allow it an easy exit if discovery reveals its claims are meritless”) via Techdirt] IKEA dresser recall shows CPSC acting aggressively. [read post]
18 Jul 2018, 2:58 am
[Timothy Geigner, TechDirt] Tags: discrimination law, music and musicians, racial quotas, restaurants, trademarks, Washington D.C. [read post]
