This Week In Techdirt History: June 16th – 22nd
from the that-was-that dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2019, we reiterated the all-important point that there is no legal distinction between a “platform” and a “publisher”, and explained why the freedom to decide what content to facilitate is essential to Section 230, while the Supreme Court signaled its recognition that social media sites don’t have to allow all speech. Genius picked a dumb fight with Google over song lyrics, which quickly got even dumber. And Congress was stirring up a moral panic about deepfakes, while Kim Kardashian got one such deepfake taken down with a copyright claim. Also, Prenda’s Paul Hansmeier was finally hit with a fine and prison time.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2014, more details emerged about how the US government had no idea to solve a problem like Ed Snowden, while congressmen were admitting that the NSA spied on Americans without a warrant. Techdirt received our first right to be forgotten request, and we breathed a sigh of relief (while also chuckling) as an appeals court ruled that having “dirt” in your domain name doesn’t remove safe harbor protections. Another copyright troll ran away upon details of its practices coming to light, and a new ruling repeated the forcible case that Sherlock Holmes had entered the public domain.
Fifteen Years Ago
This week in 2009, Hulu was accused of being “anti-American” for providing free content, while Blu-Ray was allowing users to make copies with a lot of strings attached. A French court ordered a P2P news site to cover recent file sharing convictions, while the NY Times was correcting its false article about the Pirate Bay appeal but still getting it wrong. Also, the much-anticipated penalty in the Jammie Thomas case arrived, clocking in at an absurd $1.92 million that was quickly defended by a bunch of RIAA mouthpieces.
Comments on “This Week In Techdirt History: June 16th – 22nd”
Now, Sherlock Holmes is completely in the public domain in the US, so we won’t have to worry about copyright infringement lawsuits anymore………..right?
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Mistakes will surely happen, but we can at least count on them to be corrected swiftly and justly.
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Uhm, it’s not the flashlight that is a problem but the roach infestation.
Sadly, the government really never got beyond flashlight-blaming.
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I’m just so glad that a clear anti-Fascist/anti-conservative/anti-Right/anti-GOP/anti-religion/anti-America ethos has emerged here at TD over the last few years.
Everything is political now, and it’s not enough to simply report on happenings in tech. And it’s certainly not ok to even occasionally note that Democrats also sometimes don’t make good politicians, or that not all police are modern day slave catchers.
The rise in calls for violence against police, heteronormative people and Trump-voters in the comments here is very reassuring. This is my safe space, and it’s good to be amongst like-minded people who oppose the suffocating preference for tradition and order that makes most Americans think and behave like aspiring collaborators in Pinochet’s Chile.
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Yeah, I’ll go with “troll pretending to be a leftist” for 400, Alex.
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The rise in calls for violence against police, heteronormative people and Trump-voters in the comments here is very reassuring. This is my safe space, and it’s good to be amongst like-minded people who oppose the suffocating preference for tradition and order that makes most Americans think and behave like aspiring collaborators in Pinochet’s Chile.
your not a troll are you?
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I’m pro-democracy and anti-fascism. Don’t even care that much about tech policy, tbt.
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which i agree but uh why cuase violence towards people? isn’t that what there doing?
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Turning the other cheek just gets you smacked on the other side of your face. Time to fight fire with fire.
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I love you too.
Pride Month your babies up my rectum, I beg you.
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We are all real sorry Herman hasn’t been sectioned yet too bro.
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No, it hasn’t. Particularly not anti-religion, anti-conservative, or anti-America (as nothing posted here as been particularly against any of those things), or anti-fascist (since TD has always been anti-fascist, so that isn’t something that has emerged over the past few years).
TD has repeatedly and explicitly pointed out problematic Democrats on numerous occasions, including over the past year or so, so that’s just utter nonsense. Either you’re lying, not paying attention, or a victim of confirmation bias. Biden, Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, the governors of New York and California, Obama, Kamala Harris, and so many others have been criticized on this site.
I don’t believe that TD has even claimed that they are “modern-day slave-catchers” in the first place, and they have never said that all police are bad. Only that the current system tends to favor bad cops over good cops and prevents bad cops from being held accountable much of the time. So, again, you’re objectively wrong on this.
I haven’t seen any calls for violence against heteronormative people except from a single troll, few people are calling for violence against police or Trump-voters, and you ignored the calls for violence against LGBT people (and their allies), liberals, and communists (among others) from people like you. I’ve also not seen any increase.
No one thinks of this as a safe space, let alone their safe space.
I’ve never particularly cared for tradition, but having a tradition is fine. We even have traditions on TD; this post is part of one: having a recap of posts from previous years in the same week every Saturday. The issue comes from imposing your tradition on others, requiring people to share in your traditions, in not allowing other people to practice their own traditions just because you don’t share them, or where practicing your traditions either affect others unreasonably or causes substantial harm.
As for order, though, plenty people here have supported order; they just don’t believe it always trumps every other consideration (aside from maybe tradition). There has to be a balance.
At any rate, there is plenty of disagreement on this site. We’re hardly all like-minded individuals.
I’m sorry; do you think Pinochet was the good guy? Even most Trump supporters don’t like him. Or do you think he was a communist or leftist? Because he definitely wasn’t, having persecuted them during his reign. Or do you think that you’re being treated like his victims? Because trust me, nothing that’s ever happened on this site has ever come close to anything Pinochet did.
I’m not sure why you’re bringing him up at all, really.
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Somehow, I got logged out while I was typing the above comment, and it didn’t even warn me beforehand. What the hell.
I was surprised that the SC’s denial of certiorari was covered here (as was the District Court’s decision), but the Court of Appeals wasn’t even mentioned in connection with this suit. This is odd because, in order to even apply for cert in the Supreme Court where the SC doesn’t have original jurisdiction, you must first have a decision (or refusal to hear the case) from either the Court of Appeals for that district (in federal cases) or the highest state court within that particular state (in state or lower cases); you can’t simply skip straight from the District Court to the Supreme Court.
So, here is the decision from the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, for those who are interested.