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This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. It was early morning on April 1 when Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar, got a pani ...

If you've read about the sudden appearance of age verification across the internet in the UK and thought it would never happen in the U.S., take note: many politicians want the same or even m ...

So I've noted how Republicans are rewriting the 2021 infrastructure bill (they voted against) to ensure that billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded broadband grants wind up in the back pocket ...

It's no secret that most publishers (though not us!) hate ad blockers. The idea that ad blockers are illegal or "an attack on free speech" get trotted out every so often, and they're always silly.

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This was pretty much inevitable. While the Trump's band of bigots struggled mightily to expel brown people from this country, the rest of his sycophants are doing everything they can to preve ...

During Trump 1.0, his FCC took at absolute hatchet to media ownership limits. Those limits, built on the back of decades of bipartisan collaboration, prohibited local broadcasters and media from gr ...

One of the more frustrating things about content streaming has been how quickly we went from having a conversation about cord-cutting to the realization that all of the streaming services that enab ...

In what may be the least surprising news in the world of copyright and the internet, Anthropic just agreed to settle the copyright lawsuit that everyone's been watching, but not for the reaso ...

Support us on Patreon » The goal of Bluesky and the ATProtocol, and of the push for protocols over platforms in general, has always been to see more people building their own communities ...