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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: 69

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https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3l3lyzgz4vz2k

Published: September 7, 2024 23:18

Yes "people have said this" but it was about *you* winning because (1) you denied losing the last election (2) kicked off an insurrection (3) continued to deny you lost (4) promised to be a dictator (5) told your fans they wouldn't have to vote again if…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3l3jkzk3vp52r

Published: September 7, 2024 00:02

Missouri AG Andrew Bailey now claiming that @mmfa.bsky.social going to court to stop his ridiculous "investigation" into the org (which a judge already said is clearly to punish MMFA's speech) is "an improper attempt to cover up illegal activity." 🙄 …

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3l3jiqht2mi2k

Published: September 6, 2024 23:22

Hey folks, I posted this a little while ago and have deleted. A few of you pointed out that the underlying article DOES NOT SAY that 600 folks were getting paid. It does say they were monitoring a bunch of influencers, not paying them... Sorry, I…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3l3ji7f2k6422

Published: September 6, 2024 23:12

New Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Judge, Jury & Moderator. We cover US state laws failing due to the 1st Amendment, Telegram suddenly acting responsive to gov'ts, Elon/Brazil (of course), open library, the Oversight Board & more... …

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3l3jf2rrorx2f

Published: September 6, 2024 22:16

In a group chat where I made a "you know, rather than complaining about this, we should just build [idea redacted] ourselves" *joke* and enough people responded that it's actually a good idea, and now I'm wondering if I'm starting a new line of business...

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Published: September 6, 2024 05:56

Wait, Brendan Carr thinking he's got some sort of jurisdiction over something he doesn't, and using it to push culture war goals? Why, it must be... a day. Any day. Every day. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 6, 2024 04:57

If you're going to go on national radio like NPR's Fresh Air, and you're a big time reporter like David Kirkpatrick, please don't misrepresent the 1st Amendment like this... Brandenburg effectively *overruled* the case with the "fire/theater" dicta... It…

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Published: September 5, 2024 23:51

For absolutely no reason at all I'm suddenly recalling that it's been about two decades since there was that big newspaper circulation scandal where a bunch of newspapers faked their circulation numbers, and some people were arrested. No reason at all. …

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3l3gty7bb2a23

Published: September 5, 2024 22:05

Looking on data.ai charts for Brazil, and they show that last week (across both Android and iOS), Bluesky went from not even in the top 100 to the 13th most downloaded app, ahead of Instagram (and just behind YouTube).

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Published: September 5, 2024 20:57

From a few months ago, but just pointed out to me by @szreich.bsky.social, this skeet encapsulates so many things that I've been trying to tell people for years in one simple sentence: [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 5, 2024 20:39

One said having a black woman as a nominee is likely to give many people a sense of "hope" the other flew multiple flags that supported an insurrection that would overturn the election. Clearly the first one must be "far more problematic" than the latter.…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3l3gkkqb2ok2f

Published: September 5, 2024 19:16

Okay, here's my writeup of the Internet Archive ruling. Fair use decisions always depend on vague vibes, but I think this one got some basics wrong. But, still, the comment at the end about how authors won't write any more if books are lent out is…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3l3geryltn22f

Published: September 5, 2024 17:33

There is very, very, very little that Elon Musk gets right, but he was right to challenge a bad California law, and I'm happy to see the Court agreed with him (of course, he likely only did it because the Babylon Bee tried to, and the court said it had no…

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Published: September 5, 2024 16:55

Guys, this is like the second time in two weeks where Blake and I kinda agree on an internet policy issue, and it's... weird. Next thing you know, I'm going to start praising ketchup. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3l3fedcdwok2m

Published: September 5, 2024 07:52

The 2nd Circuit ruling killing the Internet Archive's open digital library has so many problems. I didn't expect it to be this bad. I can see the arguments for both sides, but the reasoning here just makes no sense. It literally claims authors will stop…

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Published: September 4, 2024 21:51

Today I learned that I got more writing done on a theoretical book than John Scalzi (I wrote a paragraph). But the book is totally theoretical. I have no time to write one. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 4, 2024 20:18

One other takeaway from Character Limit, Elon Musk *really* needs to learn the concept of Chesterton Fences. But, given that he basically plowed over such fences in both spaceflight & EVs and was fine, I can see why he'd think that *all* such fences are…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3l3e3n3wm742z

Published: September 4, 2024 19:44

I mean, the first doctor in China who tried to raise the alarm about COVID was accused by the Chinese government of posting medical misinformation, and threatened with jail if he didn't recant his warnings. He died the following month from COVID. Saying…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3l3e3eiuoli2n

Published: September 4, 2024 19:39

Again, everyone pushing to ban phones in school forget that we literally tried this a decade ago in New York and it failed, with tons of angry parents demanding the policy be reversed. All the policy makers pushing for it have collective amnesia about…

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Published: September 3, 2024 20:50

Me putting the finishing touches on my article about how Elon's decision to not block X on Starlink in Brazil wasn't going to go over well... only to see that he's now backed down. Time to make some pretty major edits to the article... …

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Published: September 3, 2024 18:38

I wrote about how ridiculous @rbreich.bsky.social's column about arresting Elon is, and how it harms any moral authority people have who are making *legitimate* arguments on ways to stop the harm that Musk is causing.…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3l377fc63sk2m

Published: September 2, 2024 21:08

Jess has very valuable insight and perspective about internet speech & regulation, and hopefully people can respect that even if her views differ from your own, that doesn't mean she deserves hate/threats/etc. [contains quote post or other embedded…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3l375cr4uwl2e

Published: September 2, 2024 20:30

Brazilian Supreme Court appears to have slightly rolled back the threat of fines for VPN users who get on ExTwitter. Appears it now only applies to those who get around the ban to get on ExTwitter to post “racism, fascism or Nazism, obstruct criminal…

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Published: September 2, 2024 01:18

Holy shit, @rbreich.bsky.social, this is embarrassing. Please, stop this nonsense, and go take remedial Constitutional law. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/30/elon-musk-wealth-power If the FTC can demand the removal of disinfo…

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Published: September 2, 2024 00:45

Also this correction isn't even correct. It wasn't just that they were "aware" that the quote was from Hitler, they quite publicly *cited* the quote as coming from Hitler. To first claim this was a cutesy accidental move, and then just claim they were…

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3l337njruyg2c

Published: September 1, 2024 07:02

I doubt this suit will actually happen, but if it does, what will it be for? The only two things I could think of are defamation (claiming the description misrepresents what's said) or copyright. Both would be laughed out of court. It's not defamatory and…

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Published: August 31, 2024 22:29

Kid has an English assignment, where school has kids first submit essay to an "AI checker." Kid did not use AI. AI checker says the use of the word "devoid" magically turned essay into 18% AI written. Changing "devoid" makes it drop to 0%. We're spending…

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Published: August 31, 2024 21:22

very time some Elon fan tweets a similar thing (often misleading) about ExTwitter topping some random chart, he immediately insists that the site is the only source for news. So, I guess we can now claim that here. [contains quote post or other embedded…