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• Post #1287098

  Remember 24 hours ago when we were still mad at Hilton, who insisted that these monsters needed to be housed on their properties? Want to tell them? I've got you covered with this model letter. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/07/dear-hilton-lose-my-number/

• Post #1287097

  Perhaps my most timely Techdirt post ever: Today SCOTUS granted cert in a case involving electronic surveillance. Yesterday I published a post from a Justice Gorsuch concurrence on Wednesday, suggesting the Court was ready to revisit how the 4th Amendment applied to electronic surveillance. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/15/justice-gorsuch-reminds-the-fourth-amendment-isnt-dead-yet/

• Post #1287096

  I have a new post at Techdirt that is both a look back at just about everything I've written about Section 230 since its 20th birthday, and a crash course in how it works and why we need it. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/09/on-section-230s-30th-birthday-a-look-back-at-why-its-such-a-good-law-and-why-messing-with-it-would-be-bad/

• Post #1287095

  It was a two-podcast week for me! In addition to being on Paula Poundstone's podcast, I also was on the Techdirt podcast talking about the Supreme Court and the Internet. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/10/techdirt-podcast-episode-443-the-supreme-courts-internet-cases/

• Post #1287094

  We will never be able to dissuade a country from developing nuclear weapons when we are content to leave a madman in the office who's threatening to use ours. I wrote this week how Congress's refusal to impeach is mortgaging our future. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/16/americas-diminished-place-in-the-world-and-the-consequences-of-not-impeaching/

• Post #1287093

  UGH: I need to reinstall my Nuance Power PDF Advanced sw but the license servers don't work. Thought it was sold to Kolfax but customer service hung up on me and its published email is dead. So I tried Tungsten Automation, which says it's Nuance's successor but there's no one to talk to. Infuriating... Anyone know who's supporting Nuance's products? And if it's really no one, who ELSE is selling (and really SELLING...) good PDF software...

• Post #1287092

  I was on This Week in Tech yesterday talking about some of the big recent court actions in tech policy cases (Cox, Anthropic, social media jury trials, etc.) among other things (ex: complaining about the design weakness of USB-C...). https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1077

• Post #1287091

  This was a hard post to write b/c many are legitimately upset by this decision because it seems to validate conversion therapy. But it doesn't legalize it, and it gives an important tool to those fighting laws (ex: Texas's) trying to do the opposite and punish therapists who accept LBGTQ+ identity. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/03/in-chiles-v-salazar-the-supreme-court-issues-a-bad-good-first-amendment-decision/

• Post #1287090

  Want to think about something relatively normal and in fact a NOT terrible thing the Supreme Court has done? Good news! If the nation survives the week, so might the Internet, thanks to this recent decision. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/07/with-cox-v-sony-the-supreme-court-provides-yet-another-internet-protecting-decision/

• Post #1287089

  If you've been hearing something about Anthropic's Mythos model, and wondering why, my new post at Techdirt explains the cybersecurity implications it, and eventually all AI, will have and how we need to reorient our public policy to address those implications (looking at you, copyright law...) https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/10/ai-and-cybersecurity-a-glass-half-empty-half-full-proposition-where-the-glass-is-holding-nitroglycerin/

• Post #825113

  Like discovering that Iran could block the straight of Hormuz, last week Hegseth found out that the First Amendment blocked his "supply chain risk" designation of Anthropic. I wrote about the preliminary injunction that just came out: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/27/hegseths-war-on-anthropic-encounters-the-first-amendment/

• Post #253724

  I was on the latest episode of Paula Poundstone's podcast talking about the First Amendment. Listen for a shout-out to anti-SLAPP laws, an explanation why "can't shout fire in a crowded theater" is NOT the law, and a caution to think twice about overruling Citizens United. (My segment starts ~39ish minutes in.) https://nobodylistenstopaulapoundstone.com/#episodes

• Post #177768

  In my latest post for Techdirt, I argued that it's time to call a spade a spade. The comparisons between what the Trump Administration is doing, and what the German Nazis did, is inescapable. And denying it (as the US Holocaust Museum shamefully did) just makes us more vulnerable to it. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/29/speak-its-name-yes-this-is-naziism/

• Post #153285

  Food for thought... In my latest Techdirt post I wonder what if Trump has already effectively abandined the presidency? What do we do? What do the courts do? https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/23/a-year-in-and-its-time-to-recognize-the-oval-office-is-empty/