from the back-in-the-day dept
5 Years In the past
This week in 2020, Reps. Gabbard and Gosar introduced out the ridiculous Home companion to one of many Senate’s anti-Part 230 payments, whereas Donald Trump received on board the “repeal 230” bandwagon despite the fact that it was copyright that saved getting his content material eliminated. A federal choose made a ridiculous free speech ruling concerning warning folks in regards to the presence of cops, whereas one other choose refused to dismiss a shower of Nicholas Sandmann’s media lawsuits in a lazy ruling, and Devin Nunes was asking the appeals court docket to overturn NY Occasions v. Sullivan.
Ten Years In the past
This week in 2015, we checked out how web neutrality was failing to “destroy the web” whereas the FCC rapidly shot down the primary very silly web neutrality criticism. Former NSA administrators have been popping out strongly towards backdooring encryption, whereas Senators saved mendacity about what the cybersecurity invoice CISA can be used for. In the meantime, we wrote in regards to the TPP’s tobacco carve-out and the way the settlement locked in damaged anti-circumvention guidelines, and total the way it was much less a free commerce settlement and extra a protectionist anti-free commerce settlement. Then, Wikileaks supplied up an early launch of the ultimate TPP mental property chapter.
Fifteen Years In the past
This week in 2010, the eye was on ACTA as the discharge of the draft textual content approached. The MPAA introduced that it was in favor of the present settlement textual content despite the fact that no one was presupposed to have seen it but (shock!), EU parliament members have been under no circumstances joyful in regards to the deal, and our evaluation of the textual content as soon as it was launched checked out how one can’t craft an inexpensive settlement whereas leaving out stakeholders. Even after the discharge, negotiators have been nonetheless claiming extraordinary want for for secrecy and turning off WiFi at a briefing. In the meantime, we wrote about how historic audio recordings have been disappearing as a consequence of copyright and received one other instance of the DMCA getting used to stifle political speech.
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