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1. FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable (www.techdirt.com)
   262 points by CharlesW 13 days ago | 231 comments
2. SCOTUS to LowerCourts: Ignore Binding Precedent, Follow Our Covert Shadow Docket (www.techdirt.com)
   65 points by WarOnPrivacy 25 days ago | 28 comments
3. UK Court Ruling Leaves Wikipedia Years of Uncertainty Under Online Safety Act (www.techdirt.com)
   17 points by beardyw 4 days ago | 3 comments
4. Baltimore: Brings Down Murder Rates Without Throwing More Cops at the Problem (www.techdirt.com)
   14 points by WarOnPrivacy 24 days ago | 2 comments
5. Substack's Algorithm Accidentally Reveals What We Knew: It's the Nazi Bar Now (www.techdirt.com)
   13 points by robtherobber 13 days ago | discuss
6. Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure to Save Democracy (www.techdirt.com)
   12 points by BallsInIt 11 days ago | 1 comments
7. The UK's Online Safety Act Is the Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About (www.techdirt.com)
   11 points by JoshTriplett 13 days ago | discuss
8. Fed Judge Pulls Opinion Full of AI-Slop, No One Will Say It Was Written by AI (www.techdirt.com)
   10 points by defrost 18 days ago | 1 comments
9. Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure to Save Democracy (www.techdirt.com)
   9 points by verdverm 13 days ago | 1 comments
10. The UK's Online Safety Act Is the Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About (www.techdirt.com)
    6 points by vaylian 13 days ago | 1 comments
11. Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About Public Domain (www.techdirt.com)
    5 points by beardyw 9 days ago | discuss
12. Two Michigan Men Hated Comcast. So They Built Their Own Broadband Alternative (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by speckx 19 days ago | 2 comments
13. Take It Down Kills Parody (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by perihelions 20 days ago | discuss
14. Robot Slur Tier List [video] (www.youtube.com)
    1 points by TechDebtDevin 18 days ago | discuss
15. Why Techdirt Is Now a Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It or Not) (www.techdirt.com)
    61 points by erentz 6 months ago | 12 comments
16. Attacker Has Techdirt Reclassified as Phishing Site (www.techdirt.com)
    19 points by hn_acker 8 months ago | 3 comments
17. There will be no mention of Amazon Prime today on Techdirt (bsky.app)
    7 points by hiddencost about 1 year ago | 1 comments
18. Using AI to help write and edit Techdirt (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by nickwritesit about 1 year ago | discuss
19. 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
20. 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
21. Trust and Safety Tycoon – web game from Techdirt founder and others (trustandsafety.fun)
    2 points by 60654 almost 2 years ago | discuss
22. Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted (www.techdirt.com)
    979 points by josephcsible over 1 year ago | 648 comments
23. Oregon passes right-to-repair law Apple lobbied to kill (www.techdirt.com)
    600 points by Lariscus over 1 year ago | 151 comments
24. FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware via Software Updates (www.techdirt.com)
    493 points by lg_rocket 11 months ago | 218 comments
25. Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever (www.techdirt.com)
    488 points by chocmake 9 months ago | 116 comments
26. 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
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
30. Google pulls up the ladder on open internet, pushes unconstitutional regulation (www.techdirt.com)
    374 points by WarOnPrivacy almost 2 years ago | 275 comments
31. 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
32. A Coup Is in Progress in America (www.techdirt.com)
    365 points by maximilianburke 7 months ago | 170 comments
33. Every major pharmacy chain giving government warrantless medical record access (www.techdirt.com)
    345 points by rntn over 1 year ago | 230 comments
34. Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks (www.techdirt.com)
    340 points by speckx 9 months ago | 159 comments
35. 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
36. 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
37. Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S. (www.techdirt.com)
    299 points by rntn over 1 year ago | 250 comments
38. FTC warns pharma companies about sham patent listings designed to delay generics (www.techdirt.com)
    292 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 90 comments
39. Verizon, AT&T customers sue to undo T-Mobile merger (www.techdirt.com)
    285 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 174 comments
40. Tesla, Rivian Put on Fake Show of Support for ‘Right to Repair’ (www.techdirt.com)
    273 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 205 comments
41. Federal Court Says Dismantling a Phone to Install Firmware Isn't a 'Search' (www.techdirt.com)
    270 points by hn_acker 9 months ago | 142 comments
42. 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
43. Cleveland launches plan to provide cheap broadband (www.techdirt.com)
    242 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 80 comments
44. Fifth Circuit: Law enforcement doesn’t need warrants to search phones at border (www.techdirt.com)
    219 points by latexr almost 2 years ago | 151 comments