from the back-in-the-day dept
5 Years In the past
This week in 2020, we wrote about how the concept that banning TikTok thwarts Chinese language intelligence was ridiculous, and the way any actual menace in all probability comes from America’s feebly secured infrastructure. As for failed safety, we appeared on the unimaginable waste of Baltimore’s aerial surveillance program, and as for worrying “safety”, we checked out how San Diego cops had been utilizing an outdated sedition legislation to punish folks for swearing at them and the way CBP was pulling all types of knowledge and communications from folks’s units on the border. This was additionally the week that we realized extra about how, opposite to the favored narrative, Fb was favoring pro-Trump pages.
Ten Years In the past
This week in 2015, Google lastly admitted that Google Plus was a failure, after which stunned everybody by unveiling its new construction and the holding firm Alphabet (which shortly led to some opportunistic trademark issues from others). We checked out how the TPP threatened to undermine science, whereas the US and EU had been disagreeing over new company sovereignty courts in TAFTA/TTIP. Workforce Prenda acquired smacked round once more with one other order to pay up some sanctions, Rightscorp engaged a legislation agency to enter the copyright lawsuit enterprise, and Techdirt was hit with a bogus DMCA takedown for our reporting on bogus DMCA takedowns.
Fifteen Years In the past
This week in 2010, an ISP was lastly in a position to admit that it had been standing as much as the FBI for six years however gagged from speaking about it, whereas we checked out how the FBI was prioritizing copyright points over issues like lacking individuals. We pointed people to a terrific overview of how copyright had advanced from after which again right into a device for censorship, and requested what number of instances content material industries may declare the sky was falling earlier than folks cease believing them (however at the very least increasingly more folks had been noticing how assortment societies distorted copyright legislation). We had been additionally deeply unsurprised when Viacom appealed the ruling in its case towards YouTube.
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