This Week In Techdirt History: February 4th – 10th
from the that-was-that dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2019, as quickly as it went away, Article 13 was back in the EU. And now somehow the Copyright Directive was even worse than before, but still not bad enough for the copyright industries. Meanwhile, we wrote about the failings of YouTube’s ContentID, the ongoing fight to make PACER stop charging so much, and the latest brazen example of the revolving door between government and lobbying. This was also the week that Gavin McInnes filed his silly defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2014, we learned about just how many Yahoo and Google accounts the NSA and FBI got access to, the DOJ admitted that NSA phone record collection “probably” swept up Congress as well, and leaks revealed the GCHQ’s program dedicated to “dirty tricks”. We also took a closer look at the practice of parallel construction. Meanwhile, the USTR was still pretending to be transparent, but perhaps also realizing that just pretending was becoming a problem. We also wrote a pair of posts about an excellent Cory Doctorow column on the subject of DRM.
Fifteen Years Ago
This week in 2009, we looked at how much Apple’s view on patents had changed over the years. A new ACTA proposal aimed to criminalize non-commercial copyright infringement, the EFF was gearing up to fight back against bogus YouTube takedowns, Hollywood took another crack at getting permission to break DVRs, and Fox was demanding people give up their fair use rights. Germany rejected a three strikes law, while a new EU proposal called for a heavyhanded crackdown on file sharing. But perhaps most memorably, this was the week when a very important fight about fair use and transformative work kicked off, as Associated Press demanded that Shepard Fairey pay to license the photo of Obama that was the basis of his iconic “HOPE” poster.
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I notice a distinct lack of tech activism/evangelism/reporting specifically from the perspective and on behalf of Black and queer people during the previous 15 years of TechDirt’s history that I hope is being corrected. 😒
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Fuck off. Last thing we need more of in this industry is more of the fucking PC shit. Go peddle your shit elsewhere.
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I disagree, and I think that AC makes a good point.
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Yeah, perhaps the wrong comment was flagged here.
Five years from now, please remember to tell people that this week in history, Donald Trump said that he would tell Putin that he can do what ever the hell he wants to NATO countries that do not pay their fair share of defense -2% of their gdp, in true mafioso style extortion racket thug. Not defending countries is one thing, but publicley calling for the countries to be attacked militarily by Russia is unbefitting of any stesman. Trumo is cognitively imoared and mentally incomoetent.
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We don’t really need 5 years from now when, uh, Trump was impeached for denying Ukraine aid unless Ukraine spied on Biden for him.
We know Trump simps for totalitarians like Putin and Xi and we know what it means for geopolitics. Even if the 74 million insurrectionists and their politicians, rich backers and judges try to convince us that handing Europe over to Putin is a good idea.
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Trump and his supporters are very similar to the German Nazis. It is entirely illogical, evil, insane, sadistic, corrupt, tyrannical attitudes that they have, to the point that it has become a cliche of comparingAmericans to German Nais. It is a cliche because it is true. Trump and his supporters really take the whole neo-Nazi ideology to unprecedented levels, not only internationally, but domestically too, with MGT and the Freedom Caucus and Mike Johnson wanting to do away with the seperation of church and state, banning abortion and forcing premeditated child abuse in doing so, since bringing a child into this world without a father and or enough money to provide for the child are both pre-meditated child abuse. Trump also wanted to assassinate Maduro and tried it a couple of times and failed, and said that he wanted to strike Mexico with nuclear bombs and claimed tbat they would never figure out who did it.
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At least Trump has the balls to call out our pathetic European “allies” who refuse to spend the minimum on their own defense. Typical welfare queens, living off of the American taxpayers’ largesse.
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…unfortunately, Trump does have a point. Europe should at least put in the money, time and effort to develop core competencies in their respective armed forces because even a CBG takes time to get anywhere.
Unfortunately, that sensible point is overshadowed by Trump threatening to hand Europe over to Putin.
Stabbing a trusted ally in the back just because they did not sufficiently deepthroat the boot does not good geopolitics make.
Again, even I think Europe should do its fair share too, but not with threats. And certainly not from the insurrectionist-in-chief who deepthroats Putin…
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Trump’s not stabbing anyone in the back.
He’s letting our freeloading European “allies” know that they better start budgeting appropriately to meet their NATO commitments, because he’s not going to be a weak, addled loser like Biden whose administration only helps money-laundering elites in Ukraine (and the defense contractors who profit off the raping of the U.S. taxpayer).
Goldman Sachs warned everyone to “stay out of parabollic tech because everyone is all in on the same trades.”
That would have been a really important warning thirty years ago!