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1. Trying out Techdirt's 2025 game, One Billion Users (netwars.pelicancrossing.net)
   1 points by ColinWright 20 days ago | discuss
2. ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could (www.techdirt.com)
   230 points by cdrnsf 9 days ago | 93 comments
3. DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' (www.techdirt.com)
   186 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 49 comments
4. The Wyden Siren: Senator's Cryptic CIA Letter Pattern Has Never Been Wrong (www.techdirt.com)
   124 points by hn_acker 16 days ago | 13 comments
5. CIA Erased the World Factbook with No Warning (www.techdirt.com)
   55 points by Gaishan 12 days ago | 8 comments
6. Why Section 230 Is a Good Law and Why Messing with It Would Be Bad (www.techdirt.com)
   32 points by speckx 12 days ago | 21 comments
7. Bondi Spying on Congressional Epstein Searches Should Be a Major Scandal (www.techdirt.com)
   25 points by hn_acker 8 days ago | 1 comments
8. Bondi Bragged About Forcing Facebook to Censor Speech. Now Fire Is Suing (www.techdirt.com)
   19 points by cdrnsf about 12 hours ago | discuss
9. Joseph Gordon-Levitt Gets Section 230 Completely Backwards (www.techdirt.com)
   13 points by HotGarbage 8 days ago | discuss
10. Section 230 Turns 30; Both Parties Want It Gone–For Contradictory Reasons (www.techdirt.com)
    11 points by leotravis10 11 days ago | 21 comments
11. Utah Continues to Ban More Books, Even as It Racks Up More Lawsuits (www.techdirt.com)
    11 points by hn_acker 29 days ago | discuss
12. Enshittification Ensures Streaming Prices Soar Faster Than Other Consumer Goods (www.techdirt.com)
    9 points by hn_acker 21 days ago | 4 comments
13. 'Trump Phone' Still Doesn't Exist, Pre-Order Totals Appear Made Up (www.techdirt.com)
    9 points by beardyw 26 days ago | 4 comments
14. Joseph Gordon-Levitt Goes to Washington DC, Gets Section 230 Backwards (www.techdirt.com)
    8 points by hn_acker 9 days ago | 1 comments
15. Preserving the Web Is Not the Problem. Losing It Is (www.techdirt.com)
    7 points by cdrnsf 3 days ago | discuss
16. Joseph Gordon-Levitt goes to DC, gets Section 230 backwards (www.techdirt.com)
    5 points by heavyset_go 8 days ago | discuss
17. Automaker Lobbyists Undermine Maine's Effort to Pass 'Right to Repair' Reforms (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by hn_acker 24 days ago | 1 comments
18. Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users from Lawless DHS Subpoenas (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by cdrnsf about 7 hours ago | discuss
19. Section 230 Didn't Fail Rand Paul. He Just Doesn't Like the Remedy That Worked (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by beardyw 29 days ago | discuss
20. Hey Gavin Newsom! Investigating TikTok's Moderation Is Unconstitutional (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by hn_acker 19 days ago | 1 comments
21. So, You've Hit an Age Gate. What Now? (www.techdirt.com)
    2 points by speckx 10 days ago | 2 comments
22. ATProto: The Enshittification Killswitch That Enables Resonant Computing (www.techdirt.com)
    2 points by hn_acker 25 days ago | discuss
23. Show HN: CronPulse Community – Self-hosted job monitoring with alerts (github.com)
    1 points by joeminichino 22 days ago | discuss
24. Why Techdirt Is Now a Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It or Not) (www.techdirt.com)
    61 points by erentz 12 months ago | 12 comments
25. Attacker Has Techdirt Reclassified as Phishing Site (www.techdirt.com)
    19 points by hn_acker about 1 year ago | 3 comments
26. There will be no mention of Amazon Prime today on Techdirt (bsky.app)
    7 points by hiddencost over 1 year ago | 1 comments
27. Support Techdirt's Uncompromising Coverage, Get Our First Commemorative Coin (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by doener 3 months ago | 1 comments
28. Using AI to help write and edit Techdirt (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by nickwritesit over 1 year ago | discuss
29. I Use AI to Help with Techdirt (and, No, It's Not Writing Articles) (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by bookofjoe almost 2 years ago | discuss
30. I Use AI to Help with Techdirt (and, No, It's Not Writing Articles) (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by speckx almost 2 years ago | discuss
31. Oregon passes right-to-repair law Apple lobbied to kill (www.techdirt.com)
    600 points by Lariscus almost 2 years ago | 151 comments
32. 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
33. Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever (www.techdirt.com)
    488 points by chocmake over 1 year ago | 116 comments
34. 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately (www.techdirt.com)
    372 points by speckx 3 months ago | 184 comments
35. Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments (www.techdirt.com)
    365 points by WarOnPrivacy almost 2 years ago | 220 comments
36. A Coup Is in Progress in America (www.techdirt.com)
    365 points by maximilianburke about 1 year ago | 170 comments
37. Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks (www.techdirt.com)
    340 points by speckx over 1 year ago | 159 comments
38. TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse (www.techdirt.com)
    320 points by lateforwork 2 months ago | 382 comments
39. Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S. (www.techdirt.com)
    299 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 250 comments
40. 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
41. 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
42. FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable (www.techdirt.com)
    262 points by CharlesW 7 months ago | 231 comments
43. Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN (www.techdirt.com)
    230 points by BallsInIt 6 months ago | 113 comments
44. Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid (www.techdirt.com)
    216 points by beardyw 5 months ago | 152 comments
45. ARPA is funding cheap community-owned gigabit fiber to neglected neighborhoods (www.techdirt.com)
    172 points by hn_acker 12 months ago | 116 comments
46. Trump's Police Are Now Disappearing Students for Their Op-Eds (www.techdirt.com)
    160 points by areoform 11 months ago | 63 comments
47. NY Times gets 230 wrong again (www.techdirt.com)
    149 points by hn_acker over 1 year ago | 128 comments
48. FTC orders 'gun detection' tech maker Evolv to stop overstating effectiveness (www.techdirt.com)
    148 points by shakna about 1 year ago | 128 comments
49. Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional (www.techdirt.com)
    139 points by hn_acker over 1 year ago | 83 comments
50. ICE Arrested and Detained a US Citizen for Hours Because He Looked Mexican (www.techdirt.com)
    139 points by klipt 11 months ago | 19 comments
51. Auto Makers Are Selling Data on Your Driving Habits to Your Insurer (www.techdirt.com)
    127 points by us0r almost 2 years ago | 20 comments
52. CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally (www.techdirt.com)
    122 points by alsetmusic 3 months ago | 61 comments
53. LA Times Flips Anti-RFK Jr. Op-Ed into Pro-Kennedy Propaganda (www.techdirt.com)
    115 points by hn_acker about 1 year ago | 12 comments