This Week In Techdirt History: January 21st – 27th
from the such-as-it-was dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2019, we took a close look at an interesting and challenging case about Section 230, while Google asked the Supreme Court to overturn the ruling about copyright in APIs. We wrote about the decline in broadband network investment post-net-neutrality despite promises from Ajit Pai and the telecoms. US media companies were being proactive about censorship in response to looming hate speech laws in India, intelligence agencies were sued for refusing to turn over documents about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and new privacy complaints from an activist demonstrated the impossibility of complying with the GDPR.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2014, there was a dust-up when a Google Glass wearer (remember those?) said he was yanked out of a movie theater on suspicion of filming. The allegation was quickly confirmed by the MPAA and ICE who admitted to interrogating him, and then ICE took to Twitter in a ridiculous attempt to defend itself. Meanwhile, Dianne Feinstein was claiming the NSA would never abuse its powers (clear factual errors in her statement notwithstanding) and we looked at Obama’s weak surveillance reforms while NSA apologists were getting huffy. Also, Team Prenda took another hit when a judge agreed to sanctions against Paul Duffy.
Fifteen Years Ago
This week in 2009, long before the Snowden revelations, an NSA whistleblower told us that the agency was regularly spying on US journalists. The UK government was looking to force ISPs to become copyright cops while the US recording industry was thinking about bribing ISPs to do the same, Sweden was considering a law to allow police to go after file sharers, and Italy was considering copying France’s three-strikes law. The RIAA was also seeking sanctions against Charles Nesson in the famous Tenenbaum lawsuit, and the US’s global IP cops were bemoaning interference from activists. Also, because nothing ever really changes and bad ideas are never really dead, we were celebrating the end of COPA but warning (as has proven true) that its bad ideas would be back.
Comments on “This Week In Techdirt History: January 21st – 27th”
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Wow, amazing – another 15 year stretch in which this site wasn’t pushing pro-tranny propaganda 🙄
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More like 15 years without Hyman harassing the site with his bigotry.
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Fuck off with your anti-human bigotry.
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Note that topics relating to trans people are in the news more because conservatives have decided to make their existence a cultural war issue. That you’re brainwashed into worrying about something that doesn’t affect you and bullying people you don’t know shows how effective their propaganda is and how programmable you are.
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Why do you assume it doesn’t affect me?
I have two daughters who are athletes and both have been confronted with the menace of males being unjustly permitted to compete in their events and (vilely) enter their single-sex spaces.
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proof or it didn’t happen
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I am whatever the fuck gender I say I am and ain’t no imaginary skyfriend believer is going to stop me, you basic bitch!
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They’re not males. And once they take Hormone Replacement Therapy, they lose muscle mass. Also, there has never been a case where a trans woman athlete won over a cis woman athlete of equal capability. Third, this is definitely about bigotry, seeing as the outrage over trans woman competitors extends to competitions like Irish Step Dancing, Darts, and Chess (!). You just want trans women and girls not to have a public life at all.
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Yeah yeah, lie some more.
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Yes, your deranged hallucinations don’t have any [i]actual[/i] affect on you.
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Ooh, the “menace!” Was there also villainy involved? Perhaps some untoward debauchery? I like a good Victorian description when I clutch my pearls at the indecorous audacity of people trying to exist. I shall have to retire to the fainting couch anon.
I love that you think this is a legitimate example of how the existence of trans people affects you. That you consider the statistically rare occurrence of trans athletes to be a concern is just more proof of how unhinged you are.
A father is statistically more likely to be a threat to their daughters than a trans athlete, by a significant factor.
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More likely – you harassed some cis girls because they didn’t match your random femininity standard after being told to hate and fear a target after it became clear that you couldn’t just be bigoted against gays any longer.
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Transphobia is, at least in part, about the desire to enforce gender essentialism and gender stereotypes. That means transphobes will attack cis women/girls because they don’t conform to specific standards of beauty or “femininity”. To the transphobe, whether that cis woman is actually cis doesn’t matter—all the transphobe wants is to make that cis woman feel uncomfortable enough in her body to start “behaving properly” (i.e., to dress and look more like the “ideal” woman). Only then will the cis woman be “feminine enough” to “pass” as cisgender despite her actually being cisgender.
If we may direct your attention to the paragraph labeled “Ten Years Ago”, henceforth referred to as “The huffy and Duffy paragraph,”…