This Week In Techdirt History: October 8th – 14th
from the everything-old-is-new-again dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2018, a federal court dumped another lawsuit accusing Twitter of contributing to worldwide terrorism, a law firm made the stupid decision to threaten Somthing Awful over a hot-linked picture, and it appeared that Epic Games DMCA’d its own Fortnite trailer. Washington State laughed at the federal attack on net neutrality, while we looked at the lies in the FCC’s court filing, and 34 state AGs demanded the FCC do more to end robocalls. Meanwhile, the government moved to seize all of Backpage’s assets prior to securing convictions, while Facebook was reaping what it sowed as it got sued under FOSTA.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2013, the US government was shut down, with predictably wide-ranging fallout. The TSA blamed the shutdown for allowing a nine-year-old to sneak onto a flight, Russian pirates offered to host NASA’s website, a former CIA director used the shutdown as an excuse for skipping a surveillance review board meeting, the lawsuit from tech companies over NSA transparency was put on hold… and the special members-only gym for Congress was deemed essential and kept open. Meanwhile, we looked at the MPAA’s problematic claims in the IsoHunt lawsuit, and the history of technologies sued by legacy content companies, while Intellectual Ventures was reaching new lows in its tactics.
Fifteen Years Ago
This week in 2008, we continued to look at the causes of the global financial crisis (as well as the not-actual-causes being bandied about including a very silly notion from author Tom Wolfe) and pointed to This American Life’s now-legendary episodes about the financial system as an excellent primary. We also looked at an interesting comparison between the mortgage bubble and the patent bubble. A judge let the antitrust trial over the iPhone move forward, and we dug into the ridiculous history of the job and dollar loss figures cited by IP proponents. Also, long before the Snowden revelations, we got an earlier look at the NSA’s abuse of its wiretapping programs.
Comments on “This Week In Techdirt History: October 8th – 14th”
Yeah, when the government shuts down, the first things to go should beany and all amenities and payments to Congressmuppets.
Primer, maybe?
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Why is it that only in 2023 did TD start promoting radical gender ideology?
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Because that is the year that a couple of anti trans trolls showed up, and provoked people into defending their targets. .
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Terming it “Radical gender ideology” is a downright counterhistorical lie. Following mainstream medicinal practices for decades is not radical by definition.
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For him, standing up for everyone’s rights including those who don’t identify as CIS, is “radical gender ideology”. You have to be really fucked up in the head to take the position he does.
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They’ve always defended people rights Herman. This was merely the year you figured out that everyone ment everyone.
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I am whatever gender the fuck I say I am and no straight white Trumpsucker is going to stop me!
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Why is it you still beat your dead wife, Hyman?
The day Techdirt makes a puff piece on Ta-Nehisi Coates or that scam artist Ibram x Kendi, I’ll remind you.
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I feel some relief that I recognize neither of those names.
For the love of ghu, don’t enlighten me!
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Good.
Because that was meant for the white supremacist harassing the site, and if he knew those names, he would know who I’m referring to.