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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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Posts: 48

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https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3mejrryol7s2d

Published: February 10, 2026 20:16

*sigh* If elon is responsible for getting a bad 230 ruling by using it as a defense in a case like this, it's just going to be one more thing on the long list of good things he's ruined. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3mejoxhjay22m

Published: February 10, 2026 19:26

Publishing something soon on how I look at AI beyond the idea of it being all bad or all good, and how to determine the good uses from the bad. I assume some people will get very mad about it, and if you think that includes you, then you can do your own…

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3mejlq4watc2m

Published: February 10, 2026 18:28

I was hoping some political reporter might ask Rep. Tony Gonzales to finish the thought he started before being cut off on Face the Nation where he insisted it was okay to lock up 5 year old asylum seekers because otherwise it would harm 5 year old…

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3meigbarrwc2n

Published: February 10, 2026 07:18

Oh no. I had missed this news. Back when I was a complete nobody college student, someone connected me to Dave, and he got me onto his Interesting People mailing list. Later, as I was graduating and figuring out what to do with my life I had emailed him…

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3meeqfj6vqk27

Published: February 8, 2026 20:08

I keep trying to figure out wtf he means by "I also think what about that 5-year-old US citizen?" Because I think that 5 year old US citizen is much more harmed by the knowledge that their friends could be kidnapped & disappeared than the fact that a kid…

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3me7y2iznrk2i

Published: February 6, 2026 22:42

I'm just kind of annoyed. We haven't written about Peter Mandelson in nearly 15 years and suddenly we need to again? *sigh* https://www.techdirt.com/tag/peter-mandelson/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3me7fe5mhlc2b

Published: February 6, 2026 17:07

To be fair this headline is undermined by the text of the article itself. This is not the first time I've felt that futurism puts out misleading headlines. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3me5tc5nazs2r

Published: February 6, 2026 02:11

New Ctrl-Alt-Speech... bingo card! As discussed in our first episode of the year, we now have a bingo card for people to play along with at home while listening to the podcast. You can print out a copy or just check off boxes online (mobile or desktop). …

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3me5r2z6fgc2f

Published: February 6, 2026 01:32

For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find... [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: February 5, 2026 22:59

WTF? I'm a 50 year old man and as far back as I can remember, including when I was in high school it was *obviously* wrong and fucked up for older men to be targeting high school girls. People claiming it's somehow normal are trying to cover for…

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3me5hbjmxo22m

Published: February 5, 2026 22:36

One of the things that does come through in many of these emails is just how many men think that being a creepy, abusive, predator is just like how everyone is. Way to tell on yourself. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3me5ffg332k2m

Published: February 5, 2026 22:03

Anyway, I wrote about a whole slew of reports saying that DHS is using abusive administrative subpoenas to track down Trump's online critics, show up at their door, and intimidate them... And the "free speech warriors" who insisted Biden was censoring…

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3me4z7djj6c2z

Published: February 5, 2026 18:25

Wrote about some of the history of the Wyden Siren from @wyden.senate.gov and why we should take it VERY seriously when he sends a cryptic letter like he did yesterday. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3me3l4cmve22y

Published: February 5, 2026 04:40

OMG. He literally went with "they were no angels" which is the mocking phrase people use to point out how authorities try to minimize their law enforcement executions. And he's using it earnestly because he doesn't realize how it's actually used. …

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3me2xgbck2225

Published: February 4, 2026 22:47

If you ordered one of our amazing first ever Techdirt/Section 230 Commemorative challenge coins, I just spent much of the day packaging them up, and most of them should be on their way (you should receive notifications...).

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3me2t2hhk7s25

Published: February 4, 2026 21:29

A Ron Wyden specialty: sending a letter in public that reveals he's seen some really bad classified shit that he wants an explanation for. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3mdz642odck2i

Published: February 4, 2026 05:42

Random observation: using Claude Code is like the Guy Pearce character from Memento with no short term memory is your eager assistant. "Please write this down somewhere so you'll remember tomorrow."

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3mdyrjtr6sk23

Published: February 4, 2026 01:57

Bwahaha. I've been building a fun little tool that gives me a "daily briefing" of things to pay attention to, which looks through my email, my calendar, RSS feeds, and Bluesky feeds. And I just got it working, and in the first test briefing at the very…

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3mdyhn2k73k2i

Published: February 3, 2026 22:59

Last week @kkomaitis.bsky.social was on the Ctrl-Alt-Speech podcast to talk about the week's news, and this week he's on the @techdirt.com podcast, where we had a fascinating discussion (debate?) about where AI harms user agency and where it helps user…

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3mdy34k47tk2i

Published: February 3, 2026 19:15

I lived in NY for many years, and I... would never think of the tuna melt as a NYC sandwich. I like tuna melts, but come on. Pastrami on rye? Gyro? Cream cheese & lox on a bagel? So many other NY sandwiches above the tuna melt. [contains quote post or…

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Published: February 3, 2026 07:21

@devincow.bsky.social had to remove my post from yours, friend. Some of your followers... yikes, did they ever misread what I wrote, and I'm just not in the mood to deal with that nonsense.

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3mdwokc4gd22j

Published: February 3, 2026 05:58

According to Harmeet Dhillon and Pam Bondi, disturbing a church service is a felony that deserves immediate arrest for. Think they'll go after these ICE agents? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: February 3, 2026 02:14

Oh gee, the author of "The Bell Curve," a racist book that racists love feels "hostile" that a Black woman was cast as Helen of Troy? Also, the Odyssey is not "a historical setting" Gosh, perhaps he was just racist all along, rather than a political…

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3mdw64kl6mc2i

Published: February 3, 2026 01:04

In part because the Trump administration is directly dismantling Biden's efforts to get affordable broadband everywhere (as @karlbode.com keeps reporting on). [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3mdvwhqqrp22b

Published: February 2, 2026 22:47

So... xAI (using GPUs bought by Tesla) bought X and has now been bought by SpaceX. This is all just Elon shuffling his play things around on the board. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3mdvvanf7622i

Published: February 2, 2026 22:25

So... going to run a little experiment. Usually for the @techdirt.com podcast, I interview people I'm interested in talking to, but I figured maybe I'd try to do a kind of AMA: ask me anything. Respond to this Bluesky post with questions, and if I get…

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3mdvu7y3ngc2i

Published: February 2, 2026 22:07

A super important paper, and one that I'm sure was incredibly difficult to publish. An exploration of sexual misconduct in legal academia (and why it's not talked about enough), something I'm sure is also true in other fields as well. [contains quote post…