Again, Twitter WON this case (decisively) at the district court level. The 9th Circuit made it clear that Twitter would win on appeal at oral args. And now it decided to just hand over $10 million to Trump.
[www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/e...](
Wrote a response to the Musk/Trump supporters who keep yelling jubilantly at me "the people voted for this so shut up" [www.techdirt.com/2025/02/10/n...](
Dear media: if you can't bother *to post the actual court opinion* could you at least *name the case* clearly so I can pay the PACER fees to post it for you?
Just wrote about the UK Apple encryption mess. This is a BIG deal. It doesn't just apply to the UK. It would be an absolute disaster for online privacy and security. [www.techdirt.com/2025/02/07/u...](
More people building alternatives on ATprotocol is important! It helps protect against enshittification and an evil takeover.
Exciting to see more people embrace an "I can build it" approach.
Also this is why open protocols are so important.
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It remains astounding that the President of the United States does not understand what a trade deficit actually means and thinks it means that something unfair is happening
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Frustrated there's not more I can do directly, but for now I can just try to document reality. Elon is bringing his Twitter destruction playbook to the US government, and it's impossible to explain just how serious and bad this is.
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