Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2. So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys. RE:
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Mike Masnick (@masnick.com)
Take It Down Act is a total censorial mess. And yet, a ton of "progressive" Dems are supporting it, even as it will enable the highly politicized a...
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Had seen the news about [@thedispatchmedia.bsky.social](
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Independent voices and reporting from the center-right. https://thedispatch.com/
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Also, I compare how The Free Press covered the (misleading-to-false) story of the Biden admin "censoring" social media, to how they handled the (leaked directly to them) very real censorship attack on Wikipedia by Ed Martin. Spoiler: there are some differences. [www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/g...](
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Government Actually Threatens Wikipedia’s Editorial Freedom; Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors Suddenly Have Other Plans
When Trump officials want to censor speech, they don’t quite say “we want to censor speech” (after all, they pretend to be the pa...
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Government Actually Threatens Wikipedia’s Editorial Freedom; Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors Suddenly Have Other Plans
When Trump officials want to censor speech, they don’t quite say “we want to censor speech” (after all, they pretend to be the pa...
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Take It Down Act is a total censorial mess. And yet, a ton of "progressive" Dems are supporting it, even as it will enable the highly politicized and weaponized FTC to go after websites and demand content be removed from the internet. [www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/c...](
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Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
Here’s a puzzle: How do you write a law that’s so badly designed that (1) the people it’s meant to help oppose it, (2) the people...
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Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
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Katsas voting this way is big news... and very unexpected. RE:
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Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
BREAKING: The D.C. Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, bars the CFPB from terminations pending appellate review of a district court injunction. Judge Pillard (...
Everything Radley said. Except he means "censorial" not "censorious." And, yes, this is the most pedantic hill I will die on. But, Brendan Carr, who Trump declared was a "free speech warrior" is the most anti-free speech FCC commissioner ever. RE:
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Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social)
Hard to overstate what censorious bullshit this is. CBS would have 1A protection even if it had edited the interview in a "biased" way. But there w...
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One more thought on this. Smith's piece notes that the chats he describes are almost all dudes, with just a few token non-dudes. Every active group chat I'm in is significantly more diverse, which likely plays a part in them not descending into adolescent stupidity. RE:
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Mike Masnick (@masnick.com)
Yeah. I'm in a few too many group chats myself, and while I have seen memes show up in some, none of gone towards what Marc describes. The ones I'm...
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Yeah. I'm in a few too many group chats myself, and while I have seen memes show up in some, none of gone towards what Marc describes. The ones I'm in that involve memes tend to focus on obscure in-jokes and such, not anything offensive. RE:
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Carl T. Bergstrom (@carlbergstrom.com)
I'm in a number of very active group chats with prominent academics and politicians, and no one behaves this way. These dorks are so developmental...
So does this mean JournoList can reform as a Signal group chat?
Jason called it. RE:
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Jason Goldman (@goldman.blue)
Receipts! I’ve known they were poisoning their brains in the group chat for years.