from the as-it-was dept
5 Years In the past
This week in 2020, we featured a visitor publish concerning the many issues with the concept of add filters, whereas Poland was attempting to get them excluded from the EU Copyright Directive. Twitch was persevering with to journey over itself in response to its DMCA apocalypse, and we dug into simply how unhealthy issues had been going for it, whereas GitHub and the EFF had been pushing again in opposition to the DMCA takedown of youtube-dl. The Trump marketing campaign’s SLAPP go well with in opposition to CNN was simply tossed out, whereas the DNC was suing Georgia’s governor over his bullshit claims of voter registration hacking, Trump fired his Cybersecurity Director after he debunked Trump’s claims of election methods fraud, and Lindsay Graham was blaming social media for undermining the election whereas going through credible accusations of attempting to take action himself.
Ten Years In the past
This week in 2015, we lined many points of the fallout from the coordinated terrorist assaults in Paris, and particularly the pathological response of justifying surveillance and calling for extra of it. Politicians had been fast in charge Ed Snowden and push for encryption bans or backdoors, and Senator McCain launched some laws to that impact, whereas Senator Cotton launched one to increase unconstitutional NSA surveillance. We famous that France already expanded surveillance twice within the final yr, and puzzled if there was any proof that will persuade the intelligence neighborhood that extra surveillance received’t assist — then it got here out that the Paris attackers coordinated through unencrypted SMS. Finally we wrote up a abstract of all of the nonsense that had occurred to date, whereas France responded by dashing by way of a brand new web censorship legislation.
Fifteen Years In the past
This week in 2010, MLB was happening a YouTube takedown blitz, WordPress was being a bit too fast in complying with DMCA takedowns, and Warner Bros. was predictably demanding the heads of whoever leaked a Harry Potter film. Rupert Murdoch’s paywalls had been costing his newspapers consideration and due credit score, whereas Arianna Huffington was sued for “stealing” the concept for The Huffington Submit. Additionally, Common Music ramped up its astroturf marketing campaign round a looming vote on COICA within the Senate (a invoice the MPAA was additionally defending with blatantly false claims), and the lame duck Senate Judiciary Committee moved it ahead with 19 votes, main Senator Wyden to say he would block it.
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