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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
13+ hour, 23+ 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…...
Court Tells HHS To Stop Using AI To Cite Fake Studies, Or Willfully Misinterpret Others In Grant Solicitations
1+ week, 2+ day ago (447+ words) To quote the opening line from the court opinion that this post is based upon, “Millions of American teenagers have sex.” This post is has nothing to do with whether that sort of thing is good or bad, natural or…...
Sony Tells Courts Any ‘Reasonable Customer’ Knows Digital Purchases Are Actually Licenses | Techdirt
1+ week, 3+ day ago (623+ words) Sony is bad enough at this that they can manage to piss me off even when I probably agree with them when it comes to a particular lawsuit. Let’s get through the part where I’m on their side first. Unfortunately…...
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…...
white supremacists – Techdirt
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1500+ words) In April 2026, a federal grand jury returned indictments charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The indictment alleges the SPLC, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, secretly funneled more than US…...
White Supremacists Spin DOJ’s SPLC Indictment To Legitimize Extremism & Expand Recruitment
1+ week, 5+ day ago (953+ words) In April 2026, a federal grand jury returned indictments charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The indictment alleges the SPLC, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, secretly funneled more than US…...
Pete Hegseth And His Department Of Unconstitutional Revenge Lose Again In California
2+ week, 1+ day ago (377+ words) When Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic a national security risk because it wouldn’t agree to his dangerously unethical demands for what Claude should be able to do, Anthropic sued to challenge the directives. One of the challenges was brought in the…...
Area (Atlantic) Columnist Decides *Now* Is The Time To Start Defending Flock Safety
3+ week, 3+ day ago (713+ words) Flock’s ALPR (automated license plate reader) tech spread from HOAs to police departments at an alarming rate of speed. What was once a toy for the over-privileged soon became the go-to source of license plate images. Flock became the Ring…...
Persistent surveillance stories at Techdirt.
3+ week, 2+ day ago (683+ words) Flock’s ALPR (automated license plate reader) tech spread from HOAs to police departments at an alarming rate of speed. What was once a toy for the over-privileged soon became the go-to source of license plate images. Flock became the Ring…...
Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt For Noncitizen Voters
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1648+ words) It was late March when Joe Teirab, the second-in-command at Minnesota’s U.S. attorney’s office, received an urgent email from Washington. The federal government was scrambling to find criminal cases to back up President Donald Trump’s claims that illegal voting by…...