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Five Years Ago This week in 2020, a judge forbade a Facebook user being sued by a cop from publishing the cop's name on social media, the DC police union was suing to block the release of the ...

When the Techdirt community has had to hear so much about a single state's education superintendent, you know something has gone horribly wrong. The horribly wrong in this case is Ryan Walter ...

This is the final piece in a series of posts that explores how we can rethink the intersection of AI, creativity, and policy. From examining outdated regulatory metaphors to questioning copyright n ...

Earlier this year, an Army helicopter collided with a passenger plane over the Potomac River in Washington, DC. All sixty-seven people aboard both vehicles were killed. While the FAA focused its in ...

The White House's recently-unveiled "AI Action Plan" wages war on so-called "woke AI"--including large language models (LLMs) that provide information inconsistent with the administration's views on ...

In theory, the nice thing about having a Supreme Court is that it provides some level of legal certainty. You know how the system works: lower courts make decisions based on law and precedent, part ...

The Academy of Educational Engineering is a premier platform tailored for aspiring and professional geeks. This all-in-one educational ecosystem is designed to empower you with expert-level knowled ...

The number of assaults on ICE officers was always going to increase. There's no way it wouldn't, not when ICE was sending out a task force composed of multiple federal law enforcement a ...

In a rare win for U.S. consumer privacy, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled unanimously against T-Mobile and its subsidiary Sprint, upholding (for now) a $92 mil ...

As you will recall, a single gunmen opened fire on a CDC campus in Atlanta earlier this month, claiming to have been injured by COVID vaccines. The rhetoric he had used prior to the shooting closel ...