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The rush to blame video games for all the world's ills is, of course, nothing new. While some of the more novel examples of this blame-game include current Speaker of the House Mike Johnson&#

A lot has happened since last week when my post about Des Moines (IA) school superintendent Ian Roberts being arrested by ICE first hit the front page here at Techdirt. A lot of new information has ...

Support us on Patreon » We've written a lot about how AI can empower users when employed the right way, but how this is difficult when a few giant tech firms control the technology ...

Once again, we're reminded why age verification systems are fundamentally broken when it comes to privacy and security. Discord has disclosed that one of its third-party customer service prov ...

It would be something of an understatement to say that Alphabet, Google's holding company, is big and successful. Some Wall Street analysts are even predicting it could become the world's most valu ...

It seems like years ago, but the Trump administration got itself sued earlier this very year by the state of California for commandeering California's National Guard to shut down anti-ICE pro ...

It's super curious how the folks most vocal about being cancelled or having their "Conservative viewpoints silenced" now own or control most major U.S. media companies. Almost as ...

As we discussed last week, Ryan Walters resigned from his position as the state Superintendent of Oklahoma and the mood across the state was sad and sour as a result. Okay, while it's very fu ...

The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka "Chat Control," that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of ...

Stephen Miller just called a federal judge's enforcement of constitutional law "legal insurrection." Let that sink in. A Deputy White House Chief of Staff--one of the most powerful people ...