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1. The "Debate Me Bro" Grift: How Trolls Weaponized the Marketplace of Ideas (www.techdirt.com)
   79 points by toomanyrichies 15 days ago | 56 comments
2. Trump Makes It Clear They Will Turn TikTok into a Right Wing Propaganda Machine (www.techdirt.com)
   72 points by beardyw 3 days ago | 23 comments
3. 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK over Extraterritorial Censorship (www.techdirt.com)
   29 points by nadermx 25 days ago | 2 comments
4. The mainstream media is catastrophically failing to meet the moment (www.techdirt.com)
   22 points by BallsInIt 2 days ago | 4 comments
5. Wired, Business Insider Duped by 'AI' Using 'Journalist', Made Up Towns, People (www.techdirt.com)
   19 points by MBCook 29 days ago | 6 comments
6. The Murder of Charlie Kirk Didn't Help Anyone (www.techdirt.com)
   16 points by speckx 21 days ago | 49 comments
7. Walling Off the Open Internet to Stop AI May End Up Breaking Everything Else (www.techdirt.com)
   16 points by hn_acker 24 days ago | 10 comments
8. Warner Bros Joins Disney in Suing Sling TV for Making Streaming Video Cheaper (www.techdirt.com)
   16 points by voxadam 5 days ago | 2 comments
9. Stop Begging. Start Building (www.techdirt.com)
   14 points by mooreds 17 days ago | discuss
10. Samsung Pilots Making Its Smart Fridges Billboards After People Bought Them (www.techdirt.com)
    12 points by Mgtyalx 1 day ago | 2 comments
11. A Memo to Corporate America: How to Stop Being Cartoon Villains (www.techdirt.com)
    9 points by mdhb 1 day ago | 1 comments
12. AI Slop Startup to Flood the Internet with AI Slop Podcasts (www.techdirt.com)
    6 points by cratermoon 11 days ago | discuss
13. Backdoors Could Become a Routine Problem for Open Source Projects Because of AI (www.techdirt.com)
    6 points by latexr 28 days ago | discuss
14. Waymo Tells Cops: 'Get a Warrant' (www.techdirt.com)
    5 points by defrost 21 days ago | discuss
15. Business Insider Pulls 40 Essays After Getting Conned by AI-Using Scammers (www.techdirt.com)
    5 points by speckx 22 days ago | discuss
16. We're Walling Off the Open Internet to Stop AI (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by doener 18 days ago | 1 comments
17. UK Age Verification Data Confirms Mass Migration to Sketchier Sites (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by speckx 24 days ago | 1 comments
18. Stop Begging. Start Building (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by ctack 12 days ago | 1 comments
19. Samsung Pilots Making Its Smart Fridges Billboards After People Bought Them (www.techdirt.com)
    1 points by speckx 3 days ago | 1 comments
20. Why Techdirt Is Now a Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It or Not) (www.techdirt.com)
    61 points by erentz 7 months ago | 12 comments
21. Attacker Has Techdirt Reclassified as Phishing Site (www.techdirt.com)
    19 points by hn_acker 10 months ago | 3 comments
22. There will be no mention of Amazon Prime today on Techdirt (bsky.app)
    7 points by hiddencost about 1 year ago | 1 comments
23. Using AI to help write and edit Techdirt (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by nickwritesit over 1 year ago | discuss
24. I Use AI to Help with Techdirt (and, No, It's Not Writing Articles) (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by bookofjoe over 1 year ago | discuss
25. I Use AI to Help with Techdirt (and, No, It's Not Writing Articles) (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by speckx over 1 year ago | discuss
26. Trust and Safety Tycoon – web game from Techdirt founder and others (trustandsafety.fun)
    2 points by 60654 almost 2 years ago | discuss
27. Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted (www.techdirt.com)
    979 points by josephcsible almost 2 years ago | 648 comments
28. Oregon passes right-to-repair law Apple lobbied to kill (www.techdirt.com)
    600 points by Lariscus over 1 year ago | 151 comments
29. FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware via Software Updates (www.techdirt.com)
    493 points by lg_rocket about 1 year ago | 218 comments
30. Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever (www.techdirt.com)
    488 points by chocmake 11 months ago | 116 comments
31. Telecom Industry Is Mad Because the FCC Might Examine High Broadband Prices (www.techdirt.com)
    481 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 278 comments
32. Senator Wyden Letter Confirms NSA Is Buying US Persons' Data from Data Brokers (www.techdirt.com)
    427 points by rntn over 1 year ago | 216 comments
33. FBI director admits they rarely have probable cause for using NSA collections (www.techdirt.com)
    426 points by repelsteeltje almost 2 years ago | 134 comments
34. 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
35. Google pulls up the ladder on open internet, pushes unconstitutional regulation (www.techdirt.com)
    374 points by WarOnPrivacy almost 2 years ago | 275 comments
36. Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments (www.techdirt.com)
    365 points by WarOnPrivacy over 1 year ago | 220 comments
37. A Coup Is in Progress in America (www.techdirt.com)
    365 points by maximilianburke 8 months ago | 170 comments
38. Every major pharmacy chain giving government warrantless medical record access (www.techdirt.com)
    345 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 230 comments
39. Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks (www.techdirt.com)
    340 points by speckx 11 months ago | 159 comments
40. Sorry Appin, we're not taking down our article about your attempts to silence (www.techdirt.com)
    329 points by playeren over 1 year ago | 20 comments
41. Judge allows major 'right to repair' lawsuit against John Deere to move forward (www.techdirt.com)
    311 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 78 comments
42. Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S. (www.techdirt.com)
    299 points by rntn over 1 year ago | 250 comments
43. Verizon, AT&T customers sue to undo T-Mobile merger (www.techdirt.com)
    285 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 174 comments
44. Federal Court Says Dismantling a Phone to Install Firmware Isn't a 'Search' (www.techdirt.com)
    270 points by hn_acker 10 months ago | 142 comments
45. Why Isn't Taxpayer-Funded U.S. Broadband Mapping Data Owned by the Public? (www.techdirt.com)
    266 points by rntn over 1 year ago | 45 comments
46. FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable (www.techdirt.com)
    262 points by CharlesW about 2 months ago | 231 comments
47. Cleveland launches plan to provide cheap broadband (www.techdirt.com)
    242 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 80 comments
48. Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN (www.techdirt.com)
    230 points by BallsInIt about 1 month ago | 113 comments
49. NY Federal Court: There's a Right to Record Police, Also Inside Station Lobbies (www.techdirt.com)
    207 points by grammers almost 2 years ago | 125 comments