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1. A Coup Is in Progress in America (www.techdirt.com)
   365 points by maximilianburke 19 days ago | 170 comments
2. LA Times Flips Anti-RFK Jr. Op-Ed into Pro-Kennedy Propaganda (www.techdirt.com)
   115 points by hn_acker 22 days ago | 12 comments
3. The Faux Free Speech Warriors Attacking Free Speech (www.techdirt.com)
   71 points by hn_acker 22 days ago | 1 comments
4. Automakers Sue to Kill Maine's Popular 'Right to Repair' Law (www.techdirt.com)
   36 points by hn_acker 15 days ago | discuss
5. Musk Shows Us What Actual Government Censorship on Social Media Looks Like (www.techdirt.com)
   34 points by ceejayoz 18 days ago | 6 comments
6. It's Easy to Save Billions in Taxpayer Funds When Everything Is Made Up (www.techdirt.com)
   22 points by hn_acker 3 days ago | 1 comments
7. 25yo from DOGE pushing untested code to production Treasury payments system (www.techdirt.com)
   20 points by stickfigure 16 days ago | 15 comments
8. The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk's Impossible Power Grab and America's Crisis (www.techdirt.com)
   16 points by cmurf 17 days ago | discuss
9. To Stop the Coup, We Must Be Clear About the Truth: Two Plus Two Equals Four (www.techdirt.com)
   15 points by velmu 17 days ago | 1 comments
10. 25YO Writing Backdoors in Treasury's $6T Payment System. What Could Go Wrong? (www.techdirt.com)
    15 points by pwg 17 days ago | discuss
11. Elon's Twitter Playbook Hits the US Government, and It's Even More Dangerous (www.techdirt.com)
    13 points by cdme 18 days ago | 1 comments
12. When It's Not Just a Coup but a CFAA Violation Too (www.techdirt.com)
    9 points by grajaganDev 17 days ago | 6 comments
13. Ted Cruz Blocks FCC Plan to Bring Mobile Wi-Fi to School Kids (www.techdirt.com)
    7 points by hn_acker 23 days ago | 6 comments
14. UK Orders Apple to Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by hn_acker 15 days ago | 2 comments
15. Conscripting the App Stores Doesn't Solve the Problems with Age Verification (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by hn_acker 23 days ago | discuss
16. Empowering Users, Not Overlords: Overcoming Digital Helplessness (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by PaulHoule 26 days ago | discuss
17. Techdirt has been deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo [fixed] (www.techdirt.com)
    220 points by lehi over 1 year ago | 190 comments
18. Attacker Has Techdirt Reclassified as Phishing Site (www.techdirt.com)
    19 points by hn_acker 2 months ago | 3 comments
19. Techdirt Has Again Been Removed from Bing and (Mostly) DuckDuckGo (www.techdirt.com)
    11 points by artimaeis over 1 year ago | 2 comments
20. Advertisers See Elon Musk as a Liability as They Avoid Twitter – Techdirt (www.techdirt.com)
    8 points by elsewhen almost 2 years ago | discuss
21. There will be no mention of Amazon Prime today on Techdirt (bsky.app)
    7 points by hiddencost 7 months ago | 1 comments
22. Using AI to help write and edit Techdirt (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by nickwritesit 9 months ago | discuss
23. I Use AI to Help with Techdirt (and, No, It's Not Writing Articles) (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by bookofjoe 10 months ago | discuss
24. I Use AI to Help with Techdirt (and, No, It's Not Writing Articles) (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by speckx 10 months ago | discuss
25. Trust and Safety Tycoon – web game from Techdirt founder and others (trustandsafety.fun)
    2 points by 60654 over 1 year ago | discuss
26. Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For (www.techdirt.com)
    1068 points by g0xA52A2A over 1 year ago | 416 comments
27. Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted (www.techdirt.com)
    979 points by josephcsible about 1 year ago | 648 comments
28. Comcast, CenturyLink fail to derail Utah community-owned gigabit fiber network (www.techdirt.com)
    827 points by rntn over 1 year ago | 281 comments
29. Oregon passes right-to-repair law Apple lobbied to kill (www.techdirt.com)
    600 points by Lariscus 12 months ago | 151 comments
30. US Patent Office proposes rule to make it much harder to kill bad patents (www.techdirt.com)
    541 points by berkeleyjunk over 1 year ago | 100 comments
31. FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware via Software Updates (www.techdirt.com)
    493 points by lg_rocket 6 months ago | 218 comments
32. Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever (www.techdirt.com)
    488 points by chocmake 3 months ago | 116 comments
33. Telecom Industry Is Mad Because the FCC Might Examine High Broadband Prices (www.techdirt.com)
    481 points by rntn about 1 year ago | 278 comments
34. Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians (www.techdirt.com)
    479 points by latexr almost 2 years ago | 318 comments
35. Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping (www.techdirt.com)
    452 points by remote_phone almost 2 years ago | 331 comments
36. Senator Wyden Letter Confirms NSA Is Buying US Persons' Data from Data Brokers (www.techdirt.com)
    427 points by rntn about 1 year ago | 216 comments
37. FBI director admits they rarely have probable cause for using NSA collections (www.techdirt.com)
    426 points by repelsteeltje over 1 year ago | 134 comments
38. Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought (www.techdirt.com)
    395 points by rntn about 1 year ago | 261 comments
39. Google pulls up the ladder on open internet, pushes unconstitutional regulation (www.techdirt.com)
    374 points by WarOnPrivacy over 1 year ago | 275 comments
40. Twitter lawyers overwhelmed as laid off employees file arbitration claims (www.techdirt.com)
    371 points by isaacfrond over 1 year ago | 293 comments
41. Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments (www.techdirt.com)
    365 points by WarOnPrivacy 9 months ago | 220 comments
42. Every major pharmacy chain giving government warrantless medical record access (www.techdirt.com)
    345 points by rntn about 1 year ago | 230 comments
43. Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks (www.techdirt.com)
    340 points by speckx 4 months ago | 159 comments
44. Sorry Appin, we're not taking down our article about your attempts to silence (www.techdirt.com)
    329 points by playeren about 1 year ago | 20 comments
45. Book publishers won't stop until libraries are dead (www.techdirt.com)
    323 points by webmaven almost 2 years ago | 208 comments
46. Judge allows major 'right to repair' lawsuit against John Deere to move forward (www.techdirt.com)
    311 points by rntn about 1 year ago | 78 comments