Techdirt has been around for almost 30 years now, and the one internet law issue that never seems to change is the bullshit use of copyright to take down speech. It's run through basically our entire history. Back in 2020 we wrote about a copyright dispute involving an author of, well, "wolf-kink erotica" using the...

Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.

For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it “age” verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we&#821…

A public health expert fact checks RFK Jr.'s recent contentious interview on CNN with facts on vaccines, COVID-19 and measles.

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In Trump's America, the First Amendment is a dead letter. If you're seen as anti-Trump, you apparently no longer have any rights at all. We'll get to the man who moved a box of zines and got thirty years — he wasn't even at the protest, but the judge claimed he was aiding a "terrorist on the run" (he was not).

The commanding officer, executive officer, and command master chief for a ship repair facility in Japan have all been fired.

Flock Safety doesn't seem to care about anyone. Not its customers, not those captured by its cameras, not even the legislators trying to find a balance between safety and privacy. Flock started out by pitching its cameras -- with built-in license plate readers -- to the kind of people with money to blow on unproven tech and the willingness to use it to keep unwanted people (read: not white) out of their neighborhoods.