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Techdirt guy. Sometimes I write about protocols. Sometimes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform

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https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lpcyitct4k24

Published: May 16, 2025 21:39

Wrote about today's Supreme Court ruling. Don't sleep on Kavanaugh being all "fucking hell, guys, why are we sending this back to the 5th when you KNOW they're going to fuck it up and we'll have to rehear this case soon anyway" [contains quote post or…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lpcpitesys24

Published: May 16, 2025 18:58

Was wondering when they'd attack the GAO, given that the GAO has *long* actually done a lot of what DOGE is falsely claiming to do (while actually undermining so much of the GAO's good work). [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lpci7yyzbd2j

Published: May 16, 2025 16:48

So @agomezfcc.bsky.social gave quite a speech yesterday. It hit on so many key @techdirt.com points, that we just made her speech a Techdirt post, because more people should hear what she had to say as she raises the alarm about the Trump admin. [contains…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lpantwkjjk2j

Published: May 15, 2025 23:23

New Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Hypocritical Infrastructure @cathygellis.bsky.social guest hosts, and we talked about a whole bunch of hypocrisy. We start, though, with her concerns about the lack of 1st Amendment analysis in the Copyright Office's rushed AI report.…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lpamziwjm22j

Published: May 15, 2025 23:08

Guess I need to 'fess up that I once met @katmabu.bsky.social and she offered to help me hide in a corner of the @theonion.com party at SXSW, so I could sleep off jetlag from having to stay up the entire night before reinstalling everything on my laptop…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lpagh5zcjk2j

Published: May 15, 2025 21:11

I wrote about this crazy idea that the Missouri AG has that based on his extremely wrong reading of the SCOTUS ruling in Moody he can force every social media company to let users choose what moderator they get... [contains quote post or other embedded…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lp5lfn42mk23

Published: May 14, 2025 18:01

I have some *thoughts* on Dems like @schumer.senate.gov & @blumenthal.senate.gov sponsoring KOSA *now* even as a quick glance around shows that Trump is implementing Project 2025 and Heritage Foundation has said clearly that KOSA is part of its strategy to…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lp3lsvnxf22n

Published: May 13, 2025 23:03

Everyone was talking about the House GOP's attempt to put a decade-long moratorium on state AI laws, but I decided to write about how the broad language in the bill would stop a ton of other laws as well... including ones the GOP probably supports. Such…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lp3fgls6zc2t

Published: May 13, 2025 21:09

This week on the podcast, I talk to @kateconger.com and @rmac.bsky.social about the similarities in how Elon treated Twitter to how he's treating the US government via DOGE... and why that's a problem. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lp3a6b7gr22u

Published: May 13, 2025 19:35

Kind of amazed at the number of people telling me "free speech means you should talk to the cops, so they can get info to incriminate you." Which is quite the galaxy brained take. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lozpxpuk2s27

Published: May 13, 2025 05:12

Been a while since I posted something that flooded my mentions with really bad takes that required blocking. But the people coming out of the woodwork to suggest that *talking to the feds* is somehow good & righteous, as opposed to shutting the fuck up, is…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3loyyinwzqc23

Published: May 12, 2025 22:12

Had missed this release of The Slackers video for their latest single (which is great), but the video is also touching if you know the story behind the song. Last year, Greg Lee, from the band Hepcat died suddenly, which was tragic. Apparently, a week…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3loywd66ous23

Published: May 12, 2025 21:33

So, the dispute this morning about whether or not the Capitol Police blocked DOGE dudes from entering the US Copyright Office is increasingly sounding like one where there's a lot of "well, technically..." but the overall gist of it was true. [contains…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3loypewt4p22q

Published: May 12, 2025 19:29

Holy shit. There is some tab among my 400+ tabs that suddenly, without reason, appears to have started playing a podcast... twice? Like it started randomly, and then 30 seconds later, it started again? So it's the same podcast repeating over itself AND I…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3loylltsk5c23

Published: May 12, 2025 18:21

As someone who has spent a big part of my life actually writing about issues related to "abundance," my take is that the book is a slapdash attempt to justify random policies the authors like, rather than a principled understanding of where & when…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3loyhexe76c23

Published: May 12, 2025 17:06

This morning the official Library of Congress Bluesky account (and yes, it's official: www.loc.gov/connect) posted a video of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden... who Trump fired last week. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lowvwi4n2c27

Published: May 12, 2025 02:21

Vaguely recalling how we spent many years with the biggest scandal in the world being that *false* claim that Biden had accepted a few million in bribes. https://oversight.house.gov/the-bidens-influence-peddling-timeline/ [contains quote post or other…