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1. Why Techdirt Is Now a Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It or Not) (www.techdirt.com)
   61 points by erentz 29 days ago | 12 comments
2. Trump's Police Are Now Disappearing Students for Their Op-Eds (www.techdirt.com)
   160 points by areoform 4 days ago | 60 comments
3. ICE Arrested and Detained a US Citizen for Hours Because He Looked Mexican (www.techdirt.com)
   138 points by klipt 3 days ago | 19 comments
4. Revolving Door: Ex FCC Boss Ajit Pai Promoted to Top Wireless Industry Lobbyist (www.techdirt.com)
   65 points by WarOnPrivacy 6 days ago | 8 comments
5. Cellebrite Puts AI in Cell Phone-Scraping Tool So Cops Can Hallucinate Evidence (www.techdirt.com)
   55 points by hn_acker 15 days ago | 13 comments
6. Trump's FCC Starts Harassing Public Broadcasters with Bogus Investigations (www.techdirt.com)
   42 points by beardyw 6 days ago | 8 comments
7. Trump Promises to Abuse Take It Down Act for Censorship, Just as We Warned (www.techdirt.com)
   42 points by croes 26 days ago | 1 comments
8. Donald Trump Says Attacks on Tesla Dealerships Will Be Treated as 'Terrorism' (www.techdirt.com)
   25 points by beardyw 21 days ago | 11 comments
9. Judge Uses D&D's Failure to Make Him Satanist to School Florida on Moral Panics (www.techdirt.com)
   19 points by coloneltcb 22 days ago | 5 comments
10. Broadband Program Killed by Trumplicans Saved Taxpayers More Money Than It Cost (www.techdirt.com)
    19 points by doener 26 days ago | 1 comments
11. Even If Those Weren't War Plans in Hegseth's Signal Chat, They Were War Crimes (www.techdirt.com)
    15 points by hn_acker 6 days ago | 6 comments
12. Elon Musk Is Said to Be Getting the War Plan Against China (www.techdirt.com)
    13 points by beardyw 12 days ago | 5 comments
13. Health Firm Sends Bogus Takedown Demand to Vanish Reporting on Its Data Breach (www.techdirt.com)
    11 points by hn_acker 14 days ago | 3 comments
14. ICE Internet Surveillance Power Tool Keeps Tabs on More Than 200 Websites (www.techdirt.com)
    11 points by freitasm 16 days ago | 3 comments
15. The Lawless Evil of Denying Due Process (www.techdirt.com)
    9 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 1 comments
16. Romania Proposes Platforms Invent Magic Wand as Content Moderation Solution (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by hn_acker 15 days ago | 2 comments
17. "Plain View" Includes Using Camera Options to See Through Tinted Car Windows (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by hn_acker 20 days ago | 1 comments
18. Democrats' Attack on Section 230 Plays Right into Trump's Censorial Plans (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by leotravis10 7 days ago | discuss
19. Nobody Enforces "Right to Repair" (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by opengears 24 days ago | discuss
20. High-Angular-Resolution, Lightweight Full-Shell X-Ray Optics (techport.nasa.gov)
    2 points by rbanffy 6 days ago | discuss
21. Techdirt has been deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo [fixed] (www.techdirt.com)
    220 points by lehi over 1 year ago | 190 comments
22. Attacker Has Techdirt Reclassified as Phishing Site (www.techdirt.com)
    19 points by hn_acker 4 months ago | 3 comments
23. Techdirt Has Again Been Removed from Bing and (Mostly) DuckDuckGo (www.techdirt.com)
    11 points by artimaeis over 1 year ago | 2 comments
24. Advertisers See Elon Musk as a Liability as They Avoid Twitter – Techdirt (www.techdirt.com)
    8 points by elsewhen almost 2 years ago | discuss
25. There will be no mention of Amazon Prime today on Techdirt (bsky.app)
    7 points by hiddencost 9 months ago | 1 comments
26. Using AI to help write and edit Techdirt (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by nickwritesit 10 months ago | discuss
27. I Use AI to Help with Techdirt (and, No, It's Not Writing Articles) (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by bookofjoe 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 speckx 11 months ago | discuss
29. Trust and Safety Tycoon – web game from Techdirt founder and others (trustandsafety.fun)
    2 points by 60654 over 1 year ago | discuss
30. 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
31. Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted (www.techdirt.com)
    979 points by josephcsible over 1 year ago | 648 comments
32. Comcast, CenturyLink fail to derail Utah community-owned gigabit fiber network (www.techdirt.com)
    827 points by rntn over 1 year ago | 281 comments
33. Oregon passes right-to-repair law Apple lobbied to kill (www.techdirt.com)
    600 points by Lariscus about 1 year ago | 151 comments
34. 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
35. FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware via Software Updates (www.techdirt.com)
    493 points by lg_rocket 7 months ago | 218 comments
36. Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever (www.techdirt.com)
    488 points by chocmake 4 months ago | 116 comments
37. 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
38. Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians (www.techdirt.com)
    479 points by latexr almost 2 years ago | 318 comments
39. 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
40. 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
41. Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought (www.techdirt.com)
    395 points by rntn about 1 year ago | 261 comments
42. Google pulls up the ladder on open internet, pushes unconstitutional regulation (www.techdirt.com)
    374 points by WarOnPrivacy over 1 year ago | 275 comments
43. Twitter lawyers overwhelmed as laid off employees file arbitration claims (www.techdirt.com)
    371 points by isaacfrond almost 2 years ago | 293 comments
44. Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments (www.techdirt.com)
    365 points by WarOnPrivacy 11 months ago | 220 comments
45. A Coup Is in Progress in America (www.techdirt.com)
    365 points by maximilianburke about 2 months ago | 170 comments
46. Every major pharmacy chain giving government warrantless medical record access (www.techdirt.com)
    345 points by rntn over 1 year ago | 230 comments
47. Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks (www.techdirt.com)
    340 points by speckx 5 months ago | 159 comments
48. 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
49. 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
50. Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S. (www.techdirt.com)
    299 points by rntn 11 months ago | 250 comments