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1. Trump's Police Are Now Disappearing Students for Their Op-Eds (www.techdirt.com)
   160 points by areoform 28 days ago | 63 comments
2. ICE Arrested and Detained a US Citizen for Hours Because He Looked Mexican (www.techdirt.com)
   139 points by klipt 27 days ago | 19 comments
3. Revolving Door: Ex FCC Boss Ajit Pai Promoted to Top Wireless Industry Lobbyist (www.techdirt.com)
   65 points by WarOnPrivacy 30 days ago | 8 comments
4. Trump's FCC Starts Harassing Public Broadcasters with Bogus Investigations (www.techdirt.com)
   42 points by beardyw 29 days ago | 8 comments
5. Trump Reportedly to Do Away IRS Direct File Program for No Discernible Reason (www.techdirt.com)
   20 points by beardyw 9 days ago | 2 comments
6. Microsoft Is Building a Database of Every Windows 11 User's Online Behaviors (www.techdirt.com)
   17 points by NotInOurNames 5 days ago | 1 comments
7. Even If Those Weren't War Plans in Hegseth's Signal Chat, They Were War Crimes (www.techdirt.com)
   15 points by hn_acker 30 days ago | 6 comments
8. Texas Judge Allows Prior Restraint to Silence a Critic of PTK Honor Society (www.techdirt.com)
   14 points by hn_acker 18 days ago | 4 comments
9. Judge Tells Colorado School District To Return Challenged Books To Its Libraries (www.techdirt.com)
   14 points by hn_acker 17 days ago | 3 comments
10. As Columbia Folds, Harvard Shows What Institutional Courage Looks Like (www.techdirt.com)
    12 points by beardyw 11 days ago | 3 comments
11. Did Frank Zappa Come Up With A Business Plan For File Sharing In 1983? (2009) (www.techdirt.com)
    12 points by hydrogen7800 19 days ago | 3 comments
12. The "De" in "Decentralization" Stands for "Democracy" (www.techdirt.com)
    12 points by NotInOurNames 9 days ago | 2 comments
13. 5th Circuit Lets AT&T Off the Hook for Major Location Data Privacy Violations (www.techdirt.com)
    12 points by hn_acker 3 days ago | 1 comments
14. Vizio Shows What Happens When U.S. Fascism and TV Enshittification Meet (www.techdirt.com)
    11 points by type0 4 days ago | 1 comments
15. The Lawless Evil of Denying Due Process (www.techdirt.com)
    11 points by hn_acker 25 days ago | 1 comments
16. Florida's New Social Media Bill Demands an Encryption Backdoor (www.techdirt.com)
    11 points by latexr 8 days ago | discuss
17. The "De" in "Decentralization" Stands for "Democracy" (www.techdirt.com)
    9 points by nickcotter 9 days ago | 1 comments
18. DeepSeek Being Applied Across China, Used for Surveillance and Propaganda (www.techdirt.com)
    6 points by latexr 11 days ago | 1 comments
19. Net Neutrality's Fate Signalled the End of Federal Consumer Protection (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by bentobean 18 days ago | discuss
20. Smart Watch Users Pissed as Garmin Opens Door to Paywall Enshittification (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by cf100clunk 12 days ago | discuss
21. TechGirlz Is Dead, Long Live TechGirlz (code.likeagirl.io)
    3 points by Liriel 1 day ago | discuss
22. Techdirt has been deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo [fixed] (www.techdirt.com)
    220 points by lehi over 1 year ago | 190 comments
23. Why Techdirt Is Now a Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It or Not) (www.techdirt.com)
    61 points by erentz about 2 months ago | 12 comments
24. Attacker Has Techdirt Reclassified as Phishing Site (www.techdirt.com)
    19 points by hn_acker 5 months ago | 3 comments
25. Techdirt Has Again Been Removed from Bing and (Mostly) DuckDuckGo (www.techdirt.com)
    11 points by artimaeis over 1 year ago | 2 comments
26. There will be no mention of Amazon Prime today on Techdirt (bsky.app)
    7 points by hiddencost 9 months ago | 1 comments
27. Using AI to help write and edit Techdirt (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by nickwritesit 11 months ago | discuss
28. I Use AI to Help with Techdirt (and, No, It's Not Writing Articles) (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by bookofjoe 12 months ago | discuss
29. I Use AI to Help with Techdirt (and, No, It's Not Writing Articles) (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by speckx 12 months ago | discuss
30. Trust and Safety Tycoon – web game from Techdirt founder and others (trustandsafety.fun)
    2 points by 60654 over 1 year ago | discuss
31. 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
32. Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted (www.techdirt.com)
    979 points by josephcsible over 1 year ago | 648 comments
33. Comcast, CenturyLink fail to derail Utah community-owned gigabit fiber network (www.techdirt.com)
    827 points by rntn over 1 year ago | 281 comments
34. Oregon passes right-to-repair law Apple lobbied to kill (www.techdirt.com)
    600 points by Lariscus about 1 year ago | 151 comments
35. US Patent Office proposes rule to make it much harder to kill bad patents (www.techdirt.com)
    541 points by berkeleyjunk almost 2 years ago | 100 comments
36. FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware via Software Updates (www.techdirt.com)
    493 points by lg_rocket 8 months ago | 218 comments
37. Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever (www.techdirt.com)
    488 points by chocmake 5 months ago | 116 comments
38. Telecom Industry Is Mad Because the FCC Might Examine High Broadband Prices (www.techdirt.com)
    481 points by rntn over 1 year ago | 278 comments
39. Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians (www.techdirt.com)
    479 points by latexr almost 2 years ago | 318 comments
40. 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
41. 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
42. Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought (www.techdirt.com)
    395 points by rntn over 1 year ago | 261 comments
43. Google pulls up the ladder on open internet, pushes unconstitutional regulation (www.techdirt.com)
    374 points by WarOnPrivacy over 1 year ago | 275 comments
44. Twitter lawyers overwhelmed as laid off employees file arbitration claims (www.techdirt.com)
    371 points by isaacfrond almost 2 years ago | 293 comments
45. Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments (www.techdirt.com)
    365 points by WarOnPrivacy 12 months ago | 220 comments
46. A Coup Is in Progress in America (www.techdirt.com)
    365 points by maximilianburke 3 months ago | 170 comments
47. Every major pharmacy chain giving government warrantless medical record access (www.techdirt.com)
    345 points by rntn over 1 year ago | 230 comments
48. Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks (www.techdirt.com)
    340 points by speckx 6 months ago | 159 comments
49. 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
50. Judge allows major 'right to repair' lawsuit against John Deere to move forward (www.techdirt.com)
    311 points by rntn over 1 year ago | 78 comments
51. Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S. (www.techdirt.com)
    299 points by rntn 12 months ago | 250 comments