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1. Support Techdirt's Uncompromising Coverage, Get Our First Commemorative Coin (www.techdirt.com)
   4 points by doener 29 days ago | 1 comments
2. TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse (www.techdirt.com)
   320 points by lateforwork 13 days ago | 382 comments
3. CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally (www.techdirt.com)
   122 points by alsetmusic 28 days ago | 61 comments
4. Australia's social media ban was pushed by ad agency focused on gambling ads (www.techdirt.com)
   98 points by hn_acker 17 days ago | 23 comments
5. Judge to Texas: You Can't Age-Gate the Internet Without Evidence (www.techdirt.com)
   74 points by djoldman about 18 hours ago | 89 comments
6. Google Built Its Empire Scraping the Web. Now It's Suing a Scraper of Google (www.techdirt.com)
   24 points by hn_acker 8 days ago | 4 comments
7. Trump Pretends to Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That's Legal (www.techdirt.com)
   16 points by beardyw 20 days ago | discuss
8. Senators Want to Hold Open Internet Hostage, Demand Meta Write the Ransom Note (www.techdirt.com)
   10 points by hn_acker 13 days ago | 2 comments
9. ChatGPT Is Helping Federal Officers Misrepresent Confrontations With Protesters (www.techdirt.com)
   8 points by mdhb 21 days ago | discuss
10. The 'Trump Phone' Is an Unsurprising No Show Months After Promised Launch Date (www.techdirt.com)
    8 points by speckx 28 days ago | discuss
11. Literal Enshittification: 'Smart' Toilets Play Fast and Loose with Pooping Data (www.techdirt.com)
    7 points by cf100clunk 17 days ago | 3 comments
12. Trump Admin Reinvents US Digital Services Program After Elon Musk Fired Experts (www.techdirt.com)
    7 points by beardyw 9 days ago | 1 comments
13. How ICE's Plan to Monitor Social Media Threatens Privacy and Civic Participation (www.techdirt.com)
    7 points by beardyw 23 days ago | discuss
14. John Oliver Auction Raises $1.5M for Public Broadcasting (www.techdirt.com)
    5 points by thunderbong 26 days ago | discuss
15. Netflix Makes Itself Less Useful, Removes Casting with No Explanation (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by beardyw 24 days ago | 2 comments
16. Radicalized Anti-AI Activist Should Be a Wake Up Call for Doomer Rhetoric (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by artninja1988 27 days ago | 1 comments
17. Patrick Roach Sues Verizon for Refusing to Unlock His Phone (and Wins) (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by speckx 9 days ago | discuss
18. When the Internet Grew Up – and Locked Out Its Kids (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by hn_acker 14 days ago | discuss
19. John Oliver Auction Raises $1.5M for Public Broadcasting (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by cf100clunk 27 days ago | discuss
20. Our Founders Would Abhor What the USPTO Is Doing with the Patent System (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by hn_acker 30 days ago | discuss
21. Std: Span C++20: When to Use (and Not Use) for Safe Buffer Passing (techfortalk.co.uk)
    3 points by vivekbhadra 2 days ago | discuss
22. Why Techdirt Is Now a Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It or Not) (www.techdirt.com)
    61 points by erentz 10 months ago | 12 comments
23. Attacker Has Techdirt Reclassified as Phishing Site (www.techdirt.com)
    19 points by hn_acker about 1 year ago | 3 comments
24. There will be no mention of Amazon Prime today on Techdirt (bsky.app)
    7 points by hiddencost over 1 year ago | 1 comments
25. Using AI to help write and edit Techdirt (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by nickwritesit over 1 year ago | discuss
26. 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
27. 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
28. Oregon passes right-to-repair law Apple lobbied to kill (www.techdirt.com)
    600 points by Lariscus almost 2 years 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 over 1 year ago | 218 comments
30. Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever (www.techdirt.com)
    488 points by chocmake about 1 year ago | 116 comments
31. Senator Wyden Letter Confirms NSA Is Buying US Persons' Data from Data Brokers (www.techdirt.com)
    427 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 216 comments
32. Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought (www.techdirt.com)
    395 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 261 comments
33. 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately (www.techdirt.com)
    372 points by speckx about 2 months ago | 184 comments
34. 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
35. A Coup Is in Progress in America (www.techdirt.com)
    365 points by maximilianburke 11 months ago | 170 comments
36. Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks (www.techdirt.com)
    340 points by speckx about 1 year ago | 159 comments
37. Sorry Appin, we're not taking down our article about your attempts to silence (www.techdirt.com)
    329 points by playeren almost 2 years ago | 20 comments
38. Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S. (www.techdirt.com)
    299 points by rntn over 1 year ago | 250 comments
39. Federal Court Says Dismantling a Phone to Install Firmware Isn't a 'Search' (www.techdirt.com)
    270 points by hn_acker about 1 year ago | 142 comments
40. Why Isn't Taxpayer-Funded U.S. Broadband Mapping Data Owned by the Public? (www.techdirt.com)
    266 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 45 comments
41. FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable (www.techdirt.com)
    262 points by CharlesW 5 months ago | 231 comments
42. Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN (www.techdirt.com)
    230 points by BallsInIt 4 months ago | 113 comments
43. Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid (www.techdirt.com)
    216 points by beardyw 3 months ago | 152 comments
44. Cable companies, automakers try to derail FTC, FCC quest to kill misleading fees (www.techdirt.com)
    202 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 122 comments
45. Study: Field Drug Tests Generate Nearly 30k Bogus Arrests a Year (www.techdirt.com)
    185 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 155 comments
46. ARPA is funding cheap community-owned gigabit fiber to neglected neighborhoods (www.techdirt.com)
    172 points by hn_acker 10 months ago | 116 comments
47. Trump's Police Are Now Disappearing Students for Their Op-Eds (www.techdirt.com)
    160 points by areoform 9 months ago | 63 comments
48. NY Times gets 230 wrong again (www.techdirt.com)
    149 points by hn_acker about 1 year ago | 128 comments
49. FTC orders 'gun detection' tech maker Evolv to stop overstating effectiveness (www.techdirt.com)
    148 points by shakna about 1 year ago | 128 comments
50. New Super Secret Surveillance Court Covering Old Super Secret Surveillance Court (www.techdirt.com)
    146 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 58 comments
51. Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional (www.techdirt.com)
    139 points by hn_acker over 1 year ago | 83 comments