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On Wednesday of last week, I wrote a post about how the Trump administration had quietly given up defending its unconstitutional executive orders targeting law firms. The DOJ was dropping its appea ...

Should parents have a right to monitor and control which sites and apps their kids use? Today, parents do have that legal right under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The 1998 ...

Say what you will about cops -- even the federal ones -- but they have nothing on the people charged with guarding people who have been detained or imprisoned. The cruelty of cops is slig ...

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When companies sued to block Trump's IEEPA tariffs last year, one of the key arguments they made was obvious: if these tariffs turn out to be illegal, we'll never get our money back. We ...

I think this recent post by AI industry CEO Matt Shumer is worth a read. In it, he basically explains how quickly LLMs (large language models) are evolving to supplant many developers and prog ...

For many years now we've had two regular posts that come out on the weekends: our This Week In Techdirt History posts on Saturdays, and our Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week posts ...

Five Years Ago This week in 2021, while AT&T was apparently committed to being comically hypocritical about Section 230, Utah was prematurely trying to dance on 230's grave with a new and ...

The ten year war over Iceland is over and Iceland has come out the victor. If you don't know what I'm talking about, be prepared to listen to a whole bunch of stupid. In 2016, we wrote ...

About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid's experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Ku ...