from the so-it-was dept
5 Years In the past
This week in 2020, a courtroom slowed Trump’s roll on the TikTok ban as a result of the DOJ couldn’t present any precise nationwide safety menace. In the meantime, the assaults on Part 230 had been coming in waves, with a silly new invoice from Joe Manchin and John Cornyn shortly adopted by two extra anti-Part 230 payments, after which but one other one from Jim Jordan. We wrote about how loopy it was for congressional Republicans, who had no technique on the pandemic or the rest, to resolve that the web is the actual drawback, and the way baffling it was that though we anticipate that sort of factor from the GOP, they had been getting assist from Senate Democrats.
Ten Years In the past
This week in 2015, not but realizing simply how insane issues would get, we wrote concerning the rising variety of assaults on Part 230. In the meantime, a take a look at Rightscorp’s copyright trolling cellphone script revealed a number of the lies they informed to their targets, Malibu Media woke the beast when it determined to attempt to push Verizon round, and a German copyright trolling operation introduced plans to step up its efforts within the UK. This was additionally the week that, after years of supporting customers who wish to use AdBlockers, we formally made it doable to disable advertisements on Techdirt by way of your person settings.
Fifteen Years In the past
This week in 2010, because the Senate was pushing the COICA invoice, we wrote about all of the applied sciences and industries that Senators Leahy and Hatch would have banned previously, in addition to all the present issues it’d find yourself getting used to censor, and in addition checked out how the White Home was already asking registrars to censor “infringing” websites even with out the regulation in place, earlier than lastly the invoice received shelved in the meanwhile. In the meantime, Privateness Worldwide was hatching plans to sue ACS:Regulation (whose shakedown scheme was not trying very worthwhile), and an appeals courtroom informed ASCAP {that a} obtain isn’t a efficiency.
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