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from the fascist-family-values dept “It’s no longer about you,” Marco Rubio declared in 2023, describing the transformative moment of becoming a father. “It’s the first time in my life that I have been responsible, entirely at that stage, for the life of another human being.” The Senator has repeatedly stressed the cri
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This Week In Techdirt History: September 6th – 12th
17+ hour, 32+ min ago (72+ words) This Week in 2016 Warner Bros. Issuing Takedowns For Its Own Site Is No Laughing Matter Roger Ailes Hires Peter Thiel's Favorite Lawyer To Threaten NY Mag For Its Stories About Him ICE Denies FOIA Request From Lawyer Because It Might…...
Pro-Cop Red States Latest To Kick Flock To The Curb
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (704+ words) Whatever wasn’t already going poorly for Flock Safety is just going to keep getting worse. Data collected by privacy activist group Secure Justice pointed out what Flock already knows: it’s losing customers at an unprecedented rate. More than 214 cities and…...
Jimmy Kimmel Won’t Air James Talarico Interview On ABC For Fear Of FCC Reprisal
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (291+ words) Comedian Jimmy Kimmel‘s planned Thursday interview with Texas Senatorial hopeful James Talarico didn’t air on ABC broadcast TV because network lawyers were worried about Trump FCC censorship and reprisal. Instead, the interview will air on the late-night show’s YouTube…...
Fake Consumer Group Using AI To Generate Fake Support For Paramount Merger | Techdirt
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (458+ words) In addition to the $111 billion Paramount/Warner Bros merger just being foundationally bad for creatives, labor, and consumers, the Ellison family-owned company’s executives just keep demonstrating why they’re not really the kind of folks you want dominating the lion’s share…...
FBI Lowers Hiring Standards To Approve Applicants Who Admit To Having Sex With Animals
1+ week, 5+ day ago (636+ words) As the Trump administration continues to chase away actual talent in order to staff federal agencies with loyalists and/or people who don’t know any better, it has had to lower hiring standards to keep the federal cupboards stocked. ICE…...
Trump Demands FCC Punish Media Companies For His Sagging Polling
1+ week, 5+ day ago (384+ words) Our full-diapered mad king is at it again, this time urging FCC boss Brendan Carr to go after media companies for the crime of….simply pointing out his terrible, crashing polling numbers: Trump last week also posted a long, rambling…...
Would The Next George Floyd Video Survive Meta’s New Teen Safety Rules?
1+ week, 5+ day ago (650+ words) She won a Pulitzer Prize for the video. But she was a teen. On social media. So Burns came up with the Darnella test, to explore whether any particular internet regulation would have prevented Darnella from documenting the murder of…...
ICE Worked With Iran To Deport Iranians Back To A Country Trump Repeatedly Claimed Was Harming Iranians
1+ week, 6+ day ago (638+ words) The Trump administration has been working steadily to remove protected status for asylum seekers that even Trump admits are deadly “shitholes.” Trump makes claims about countries that seem to indicate they’re too dangerous to live in, but then insists there’s…...
‘Right To Repair’ State Laws Continue To Surge, But Enforcement Remains Nonexistent
2+ week, 1+ day ago (374+ words) There’s still a massive effort afoot to implement statewide “right to repair” laws that try to make it cheaper, easier, and environmentally friendlier for you to repair the technology you own. All fifty states have at least flirted with the…...
Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1689+ words) You can read the details of the proposed settlement here. Notably, the whole point of doing this as a “settlement” is that everyone involved knows full well that no government could mandate these feature changes without violating the First Amendment....