This Week In Techdirt History: January 5th – 11th
from the that-was-then dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2020, the libel tourism of Devin Nunes was continuing to highlight the problems of weak anti-SLAPP laws. A patent troll got smacked down by an appeals court, while there was a twist in Oracle’s attacks on Google, and Apple became the latest company to up the ante in abusing DMCA anti-circumvention provisions. The streaming wars got confusing when a bunch of Disney+ titles disappeared without warning, and got stupid when the AT&T TV service was pulled from Roku. Also, civil FOSTA suits began to show up in court.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2015, we saw one of the dumber claims of music collection groups when a Swedish PRO went after rental car companies for public performance fees on their car radios, while the MPAA was asking regulators to force ISPs to block sites “at the border”, and Rightscorp was unsurprisingly jumping on Canada’s new notice-and-notice system to send bogus shakedown letters. Also, since this was before the more recent resumption of works actually entering the public domain each year, we looked at the works that should have done so in 2015.
Fifteen Years Ago
This week in 2010, CNN published a rather empty take on book piracy, the entertainment industry was trying to sell DRM as a feature, and Sony was declining to support its own movie for an Oscar over misplaced piracy fears. Music publishers forced another lyrics website offline, Game Marketer was getting extra moralistic about piracy, and Viacom was asking for summary judgement against YouTube for secret reasons. We also considered whether France’s new “three strikes” law would matter, and whether the leaking of Wolverine helped it at the box office.
Comments on “This Week In Techdirt History: January 5th – 11th”
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I’ve read Trumpo has 100+ executive actions ready for when he takes office.
I have one source here but multiple news media have reported on it: https://www.axios.com/2025/01/09/trump-immigration-executive-orders-stephen-miller
What would prevent him from enabling total censorship or destruction of the internet this way? He could order a rewrite or abolishment of section 230, for example.
In all fairness, that may be me catastrophizing and he might not give a single shit about that, but I figured it might’ve been worth looking into at least.
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Well, I suppose he did already try to do that last time, and that ended up not happening.
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Well first you might want to read up on what an EO is and what it can, and do so. Might wanna try it before you hyperventilate and pass out.
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Might wanna hold back on the implied accusation of doomposting since you clearly don’t know what that is.
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There’s nothing hyperventilating about the feeling either.
If anything, it feels more like being on the titanic while it approaches the iceberg and knowing you can do nothing about it, and you’re just supposed to ignore it.
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Who here has ever said anything about ignoring something like what you’re worried about? Because I haven’t. Worrying is fine, so long as it leads to productive action. Stewing around in some emotional support misery—and trying to drag other people into that mire—is not productive. Yes, be worried, but not so much that you come to the comments section of a blog in search of free therapy/validation of your self-loathing.
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An EO cannot rewrite laws, nor can it change existing ones. It can order a department or an individual of a department to send recommendations to congress, but that’s it. It is up to congress to actually do something.
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Wow, so many years without TD pushing radical gender identity ideology!! 😮
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Radical, says the guy whose party is obsessed with peoples’ genitals.
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Compensating for having a dementia-riddled old orange turd, are we?
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“People make me feel bad about being a bigot! Can’t we go back to a time when I didn’t know that they thought I was awful?”
You could just stop reading Techdirt and then you won’t have to worry about what is or isn’t being written here.
You’re just admitting to hurting yourself. Every time you make these posts, you’re only dunking on yourself.
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The only such ideology belongs to the people who want to force transgender people into either segregation or death—and will obsess over the genitals of both children and cisgender women who don’t look cisgender “enough” (i.e., women who don’t dress like 1950s sitcom housewives) to accomplish that goal. The core of transphobia is misogyny; if you need proof of that statement, consider how every well-known transphobe cares far less about trans men having vaginas and far more about about trans women having penises.
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Like you give an actual fuck about trans people, so you can stop trying to weaponize the language of inclusion that you and your right-wing brethren otherwise hate.
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You can’t just reverse uno card everything said to you. Nobody’s buying your schtick.
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They actually can, but it’ll look increasingly desperate and unhinged as time goes on. It’ll also unmask them as an ignorant right-winger who believes they alone can turn a given word/phrase into a meaningless snarl word/phrase like far more influential right-wingers did for “woke”, “leftist”, and “traditional values”.
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Trying to claim Stephen doesn’t care about trans people is a WILD take dude
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Put down the crack pipe already.
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Nothings changed except you bro.
You think we’ll be hearing 5 years from now about how SCOTUS effectively outlawed porn this year?
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because if they’ll let tiktok be banned they’ll surely also allow AV laws to breeze right through
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please take your misery elsewhere
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Nobody—and I mean nobody—knows for sure whether that will happen. In the meantime, please take your emotional support misery somewhere else.
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We’ll get the answer on the 15th or so, then.
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Cool. Now have a nice freshly baked batch of STFU until then.
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dear lord shut up with your misery speak for fucks sake
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probably
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unless they pay the judges or make them not read all the anti porn amicus briefs
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You know Samyak over here has provided more value to the TD comment section in one comment that the transphobic bigots have ever.
Thank you Samyak.
Who is Samyak, spammer?