from the so-it-was dept
5 Years In the past
This week in 2020, we revealed our in style reference put up on all of the methods individuals are incorrect about Part 230. It was wanted as a result of, as we coated in that week’s episode of the podcast, there have been an entire lot of assaults on the regulation, most notably from a number of the provisions of the overall-terrible EARN IT Act (which the Senate rapidly adopted up with one other invoice declaring all-out warfare on encryption). To not be out finished, Senator Brian Schatz launched his personal assault on Part 230, adopted quickly after by but one other assault by Senator Kelly Loeffler. However we additionally noticed an excellent court docket ruling on 230, as a decide sided with Twitter in certainly one of Devin Nunes’s lawsuits.
Ten Years In the past
This week in 2015, the UK Excessive Court docket stripped away the short-lived personal copying proper on the behest of the recording trade, whereas UK officers have been looking for to weaken the nation’s freedom of data regulation. Russia blocked the Wayback Machine over a single web page, whereas Wikileaks revealed that the NSA had been spying on French presidents, and we famous some fascinating particulars concerning the leak. We additionally discovered that Google had been gagged for 4 years from speaking about preventing the DOJ Wikileaks investigation, and we seemed on the ridiculous redactions the DOJ required to attempt to cover the small print of the gag order. We additionally noticed the submitting of the primary web neutrality grievance, which was each silly and necessary.
Fifteen Years In the past
This week in 2010, there was a landmark authorized victory when the court docket dominated in favor of YouTube in its dispute with Viacom, although Viacom was critically in denial concerning the loss, and we questioned what the precise affect of the ruling can be. BPI appeared to be making an attempt to arrange Google for an additional copyright lawsuit, whereas new analysis confirmed but once more how weaker copyright has benefited tradition and society. We wrote about how the shortage of satire protection in honest use results in the stifling of speech, and put collectively a timeline of how the leisure trade made the problem of file sharing a lot worse for itself.
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