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Good News: Canada Passes Major New ‘Right To Repair’ Reforms

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/14/good-news-canada-passes-major-new-right-to-repair-reforms/

Published: November 14, 2024 23:27

The world might be going to hell, but at least activists’ efforts to protect consumers’ rights to affordable and easy tech repair continue to gain steam. Most recently in Canada, where the country’s Copyright Act was amended by two different bills allowing


Seventh Circuit Again Says Long-Term Pole Camera Surveillance Isn’t Unconstitutional

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/14/seventh-circuit-again-says-long-term-pole-camera-surveillance-isnt-unconstitutional/

Published: November 14, 2024 21:04

The Seventh Circuit Appeals Court was somewhat hesitant to bless the 18 months of pole camera surveillance in the Tuggle case back in 2021. The reluctance to state affirmatively this sort of surveillance will always be constitutional shows up in its most


You Don’t Believe In Free Markets And Free Speech If You’re Demanding Criminal Charges Against People For Their Free Market, Free Speech Decisions

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/14/you-dont-believe-in-free-markets-and-free-speech-if-youre-demanding-criminal-charges-against-people-for-their-free-market-free-speech-decisions/

Published: November 14, 2024 18:56

Marc Andreessen, the influential venture capitalist, is exhibiting a startling disconnect between his stated beliefs in free markets and free speech, and his recent authoritarian threats against those who disagree with him. In recent statements, Andreessen


Daily Deal: Cybersecurity Projects Bundle

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/14/daily-deal-cybersecurity-projects-bundle-3/

Published: November 14, 2024 18:53

The Cybersecurity Projects Bundle offers a hands-on program featuring five real-world cybersecurity projects, totaling 35 tasks. Participants start with an introductory video for each project, detailing objectives and requirements, followed by task


Criminals Are Still Using Bogus Law Enforcement Subpoenas To Obtain Users’ Info

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/14/criminals-are-still-using-bogus-law-enforcement-subpoenas-to-obtain-users-info/

Published: November 14, 2024 17:23

Maybe if law enforcement didn’t abuse subpoenas so frequently, it might be a little bit more difficult for criminals to do the same thing. Subpoenas can be used to order companies and service providers to turn over user data and information. But they don’t


Supreme Court Helps AT&T, Verizon Avoid Accountability For Spying On Your Every Movement

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/14/trump-supreme-court-helps-att-verizon-avoid-accountability-for-spying-on-your-every-movement/

Published: November 14, 2024 13:25

We’ve noted for years how wireless companies were at the forefront of over-collecting your sensitive daily movement data, then selling access to any nitwit with two nickels to rub together. That resulted in no limit of scandals from stalkers using the data


2 Gamers Seek Class Action Suit Against Ubisoft For Delisting, Breaking ‘The Crew’

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/13/2-gamers-seek-class-action-suit-against-ubisoft-for-delisting-breaking-the-crew/

Published: November 14, 2024 03:56

The whole “You don’t actually own what you’ve bought” mantra we have here at Techdirt is really, really frustrating. It’s become such a regular topic that, in my personal life, I regularly respond to news from friends and family about a digital “purchase”


Ohio Law Enforcement Officer Tells Democrats He Won’t Render Aid To Them, Blames Posts On His Sleep Medication

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/13/ohio-law-enforcement-officer-tells-democrats-he-wont-render-aid-to-them-blames-posts-on-his-sleep-medication/

Published: November 13, 2024 23:26

Always great to see another law enforcement officer weaponize his job by letting his politics motivate his actions. We recently saw this in Ohio, when Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski sent out a Facebook post telling residents to write down the addresses of people


Judge: Just Because AI Trains On Your Publication, Doesn’t Mean It Infringes On Your Copyright

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/13/judge-just-because-ai-trains-on-your-publication-doesnt-mean-it-infringes-on-your-copyright/

Published: November 13, 2024 19:04

I get that a lot of people don’t like the big AI companies and how they scrape the web. But these copyright lawsuits being filed against them are absolute garbage. And you want that to be the case, because if it goes the other way, it will do real damage


If You Like Being Ripped Off By Comcast, You’ll LOVE Trump’s Likely New FCC Boss

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/13/if-you-like-being-ripped-off-by-comcast-youll-love-trumps-likely-new-fcc-boss/

Published: November 13, 2024 13:31

Current FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has spent much of the last decade positioning himself to be Trump’s likely pick for the next boss of the FCC. He’s likely to get his wish; after spending a lot of time crying about TikTok to get on cable TV and kissing


Judge In Absolute Bullshit Copyright Case Against Mariah Carey Signals She’s Leaning Carey’s Way

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/12/judge-in-absolute-bullshit-copyright-case-against-mariah-carey-signals-shes-leaning-careys-way/

Published: November 13, 2024 03:54

As the saying goes, the arc of morale judgment is long, but it does bend towards justice. And even if we accept such an optimistic worldview is relevant in this year of our lord, 2024, that certainly doesn’t mean we can’t bitch about how long that damned


Threatened With A Ban In India, Wikimedia Agrees To Hand Over Personal Information About Wikipedians To Delhi High Court

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/12/threatened-with-a-ban-in-india-wikimedia-agrees-to-hand-over-personal-information-about-wikipedians-to-delhi-high-court/

Published: November 12, 2024 20:52

As Techdirt stories attest, Wikipedia has been attacked in the past for publishing true information that somebody doesn’t like. As well as wanting articles to be censored, those behind such attacks often also demand the names of those who worked on the


County Pays $300,000 To 11-Year-Old Whose Pet Goat Was Seized And Killed By Cops Because She Backed Out Of A 4-H Auction

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/12/county-pays-300000-to-11-year-old-whose-pet-goat-was-seized-and-killed-by-cops-because-she-backed-out-of-a-4-h-auction/

Published: November 12, 2024 19:04

Never underestimate the amount of effort law enforcement officers will expend to dispense as much cruelty as possible. And never forget these are the people we are expected to believe are actually there to protect and serve. While it’s great there’s a


Daily Deal: Babbel Language Learning (All Languages)

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/12/daily-deal-babbel-language-learning-all-languages-12/

Published: November 12, 2024 19:01

You probably already know the benefits of learning a language, so let’s focus on the app. Right off the bat, let’s be clear about one thing: When we say “app” we don’t mean that you’re limited to using Babbel on your phone. You can use Babbel on desktop,


This Week In Techdirt History: November 3rd – 9th

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/09/this-week-in-techdirt-history-november-3rd-9th/

Published: November 9, 2024 20:00

Five Years Ago This week in 2019, we noted how the FCC’s freakout about Huawei was out of step with the way it ignored the internet of broken things. We were not shocked to learn ISPs were cutting back 2020 investment plans despite all the tax breaks and


Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Presidents & Precedents

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/08/ctrl-alt-speech-presidents-precedents/

Published: November 8, 2024 23:46

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go


Meta’s ‘Facebook Supreme Court’ Touted As Success By Conservative Member And His Confirmation Bias

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/08/metas-facebook-supreme-court-touted-as-success-by-conservative-member-and-his-confirmation-bias/

Published: November 8, 2024 21:13

The narrative for years has been that social media companies — most of them headquartered in California — have it in for conservatives. While the real problem tends to be actual Nazis, conservatives who feel their bigoted views have been “censored”


Fifth Circuit: You Have To Do A Ton Of Busywork To Show Texas’s Social Media Law Violates The First Amendment

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/08/fifth-circuit-you-have-to-do-a-ton-of-busywork-to-show-texass-social-media-law-violates-the-first-amendment/

Published: November 8, 2024 19:15

If the government passes a law that infringes on the public’s free speech rights, how should one challenge the law? As recent events have shown, the answer is more complex than many realized. A few years ago, both Texas and Florida passed “social media


Embarrassed By Its Own Wiretap Scandal, Mauritius Gov’t Hits Citizens With A Social Media Ban

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/08/embarrassed-by-its-own-wiretap-scandal-mauritius-govt-hits-citizens-with-a-social-media-ban/

Published: November 8, 2024 17:25

It’s the sort of thing we see a lot of: a government gets caught doing something wrong and decides it’s the public that needs to suffer for the government’s sins. So it goes in the African island nation of Mauritius, which got caught engaging in presumably


Warner Bros CEO Zaslav Sees Big Opportunity For More Pointless Media Consolidation Under Trump 2.0

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/08/warner-bros-ceo-zaslav-sees-big-opportunity-for-more-pointless-media-consolidation-under-trump-2-0/

Published: November 8, 2024 13:33

We’ve well established that the AT&T–>Time Warner–>Discovery series of media mergers were some of the dumbest, most pointless “business” exercises ever conceived by the extraction class. The utterly senseless saga burned through hundreds of billions in


Porn Is Protected Speech. Trump’s New Presidency Will Test That Sentiment. The Courts Can Uphold It.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/07/porn-is-protected-speech-trumps-new-presidency-will-test-that-sentiment-the-courts-can-uphold-it/

Published: November 7, 2024 23:04

The die is cast. Donald Trump is heading back to the White House – a remarkable victory. But a lot of people who work in the adult entertainment industry are understandably scared. From the concerns for LGBTQ+ rights under the new Trump presidency to


We Need To Fight For Free Speech More Than Ever

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/07/we-need-to-fight-for-free-speech-more-than-ever/

Published: November 7, 2024 17:31

The American people have spoken. And they’ve chosen to hand the full power of our military, the nuclear codes, and the courts to a petty, vindictive man who wants to punish anyone who disagrees with him. I’m not going to say much directly about the


16 U.S. States Still Ban Community-Owned Broadband Networks Because AT&T and Comcast Told Them To

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/07/16-u-s-states-still-ban-community-owned-broadband-networks-because-att-and-comcast-told-them-to/

Published: November 7, 2024 13:34

For years we’ve noted how U.S. broadband is expansive, patchy, and slow thanks to mindless consolidation, regulatory capture, regional monopolization, and limited competition. That’s resulted in a growing number of pissed off towns, cities, cooperatives,