Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger(techdirt.com)

311 points by hn_acker 1 month ago | 103 comments

Apple Decides ICE Agents Are a Protected Class(techdirt.com)

33 points by BallsInIt 1 year ago | 1 comments

FBI director admits they rarely have probable cause for using NSA collections(techdirt.com)

348 points by repelsteeltje 2 years ago | 94 comments

Techdirt article on FBI Director Wray admitting the agency rarely has probable cause when performing backdoor searches of NSA Section 702 collections.

Court to DOGE: Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' Is Not Proper Legal Process(techdirt.com)

28 points by hn_acker 5 months ago | 4 comments

The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing(techdirt.com)

476 points by cf100clunk 7 months ago | 140 comments

Techdirt article on Senator Ron Wyden warning that Americans will be stunned when a secret NSA interpretation of FISA Section 702 is declassified.

State Governments Can’t Resist the Siren Song of Censorship(techdirt.com)

79 points by rntn 3 years ago | 73 comments

Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests(arstechnica.com)

943 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 459 comments

Ars Technica article on user protests over Reddit's new API pricing, which threatens to shut down third-party Reddit apps.

Killing Community(marginalia.nu)

495 points by dasil003 3 years ago | 350 comments

A Marginalia weblog post arguing that venture-capital-funded social media inevitably degrades online communities, citing the 2023 Reddit controversy.

Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely(old.reddit.com)

520 points by rajeevk 3 years ago | 549 comments

An r/technology discussion thread on old Reddit linking an Independent article reporting that the Reddit blackout protest will continue indefinitely.

And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway(shkspr.mobi)

399 points by _djo_ 2 months ago | 317 comments

Terence Eden blog post on how governments can force tech companies to comply, starting with Egypt's 2011 forced mobile phone alerts during the revolution.

Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance(eff.org)

408 points by pseudolus 8 months ago | 122 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Matthew Guariglia arguing tech companies should not be pressured by government into conducting surveillance.

US Patent Office proposes rule to make it much harder to kill bad patents(techdirt.com)

487 points by berkeleyjunk 3 years ago | 68 comments

Techdirt article by Mike Masnick criticizing a USPTO proposed rule that would make it harder to challenge bad patents through inter partes review.