This Week In Techdirt History: June 9th – 15th
from the memories dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2019, we looked at the two-sided political attacks on Section 230, while an appeals court issued a strong but easily-misrepresented Section 230 ruling, and the law was also used to begin smackin down a lawsuit from Craig Brittain. A prominent copyright troll ran away when finally challenged, the NY Times was demanding money from Google, and the news was spreading that Amazon Ring cameras are cops. We also wrote yet again about the mismatch in privacy scrutiny given to tech companies and telcos.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2014, the EFF published a list of the top five lies being spread by NSA defenders, while James Clapper admitted something everyone else had been saying for months, and a former NSA lawyer was trying to disappear Techdirt’s posts about him via the right to be forgotten. Copyright troll Malibu Media was slinging around some wild accusations, and we took a look at the proliferation of bogus broadband astroturf organizations.
Fifteen Years Ago
This week in 2009, fashion designers were starting to realize that fashion copyright would seriously harm their business. The Canadian patent office rejected software and business model patents, video game companies were still complaining about used game sales, and there was a trademark fight over chocolate bunnies. Texas was taking an early swing at terrible internet laws, the recording industry was taking the wrong message from a study about file sharers, and a new website from NetChoice set out to track all the bad proposed internet legislation in America.
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Biden-Administration-At-(No)-Work Department
Brendan Carr: Biden Has Not Connected One Person with High-Speed Internet with $42.5 Billion from Infrastructure Bill
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr on Friday wrote that President Joe Biden has not connected one American with high-speed internet with $42.5 billion in funding from the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill.
“In 2021, the Biden Administration got $42.45 billion from Congress to deploy high-speed Internet to millions of Americans. Years later, it has not connected even 1 person with those funds. In fact, it now says that no construction projects will even start until 2025 at earliest,” the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner wrote.
“Meanwhile, the Biden Admin has been layering a partisan political agenda on top of this $42.45B program – a liberal wish list that has nothing to do with connecting Americans. Climate change mandates, tech biases, DEI requirements, favoring government-run networks + more,” he continued.
… [article continues]
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/15/brendan-carr-biden-has-not-connected-one-person-with-high-speed-internet-with-42-5-billion-from-infrastructure-bill/
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Your article quotes a crooked, corrupt FCC commish and it’s from a white supremacist Trumpist web site named after a defamatory white supremacist grifter.
No thanks. I’m not clicking on that link. I’d rather eat a turd.
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Get fucked, tranny Jew.
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i’ll bet he does. Too bad the only thing you get is rekt. The sad part is that it is an endless cycle which informs your outlook, and your outlook just gets you more rekt.
You should try to break out. i know it can be hard man, but best of luck to you.
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“Why won’t these fags take me seriously?”
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I’m not a fag, I’m a dyke. Big difference.
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I was just told you are a trans-man.
Was that just last week?
How often do you change identities?
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Um, no, I’m more along the lines of a trans-woman, but my pronouns are any/all so you can use whichever pronoun you wish.
It’s just that I’m into women (both cis and trans) rather than men.
I just want to clarify that.
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you do realize there trolling right? why are you still feeding them?
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I’m not only addressing the trolls, but to anyone else who may be curious.
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oh ok
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You’ll be one of the first who’s arrested and deported east, degenerate.
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ok troll
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thank you for confessing that you have no life and will be the first to be deported
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If Democrats won’t even round-up and deport the millions of criminal aliens who’ve invaded our country, what makes you think they’ll persecute armed, native-born citizens?
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Seriously. They just fly here in their UFOs and commit crimes and think our laws don’t apply to them just because they have disintegration beams and a pan-galactic empire. Democrats should do so much more. Trump could negotiate bigly and establish a moon colony. And why aren’t we charging them for the use of our valuable real estate? There’s a deal to be made here! Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV!
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trump would persecute you when your not useful to him anymore
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My apologies. I was told you were trans and assumed this was the new name.
I am a heterosexual lesbian as well.
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Perhaps you’d accept a stormfront megathread?
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This is bullshit written by someone who knows his intended audience (i.e. useful idiots like you) won’t fact check his claims or look for the nuance he’s not mentioning. The act wasn’t supposed to instantly spend all the money for internet connectivity infrastructure. That’s long term work that can take years and it involves state and local governments. You think there were work crews standing by for the act to get passed and they would just start installing fiber everywhere with no plan? The White House specifically cited a goal of “by the end of the decade” for the expenditure of the funds. Carr’s basically complaining that the money hasn’t been spent earlier than planned. But some of the funds from the act covered the ACP that did in fact help connect 23 million American households. Carr knows this. He complained on Twitter that not all of the people benefiting from the ACP were first time internet subscribers.
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i love when they resort to slurs when i get called wrong
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they
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https://archive.techdirt.com/submitstory.php
There ya go bro!
No need to thank me.
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he can try although i doubt the story will get submitted due to it’s made by a trumper who is 100% wrong